Report: Perry County's Imported Coal Ash is More Toxic

The coal ash being loaded on rail cars for transport to Alabama.

 The Tennessean reports the the 85-hundred tons of coal ash carried from a 2008 spill at a TVA Tennessee power plant to an Alabama landfill in Perry County contains three times more Uranium that was documented in original reports.

"The coal ash produced at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant near Knoxville is more than three times richer in uranium – and the dangerous radioactive elements it produces as it breaks down – than documented in public reports after a massive coal ash spill in 2008.

Knox News commissioned Duke University to analyze samples of coal ash the news organization obtained from TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant, the site of the largest coal ash spill in American history.

The Duke University analysis shows TVA’s Kingston coal ash contains more than three times the amount of uranium reported in 2009 by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and in 2011 in a joint report from TVA and its disaster cleanup contractor Jacobs Engineering."

                       The coal ash being cleaned up in Tennessee.

 

     This is where the coal ash ended up in the 2000's...the largest landfill in the U.S. east of the Mississippi. 
     It was controversial then, and may be again, based on the new report about the increased uranium report.