What's more radioactive than a nuclear power plant?

A lot of things, it turns out. But the one you'd probably least expect? Waste from a non-nuclear power plant, by a factor of 100. Would we feel different about fossil fuels if this warning were mandatory on coal-fired power plants? Image courtesy Torsten Henning, Public Domain On Wednesday, we published a Physics+ article about radiation, written in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima, 70 years prior. While the author did a fantastic job in describing the state of the art on low-dose radiatio...