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CHAPTER EIGHT

 

(Pg. 112) Industrial Waste Discharge Pipe Similar to the tailings waste at rare earth mines in Baotou, China (see link #1).
Credit: belovodchenko at Canva

 

Fig. 44: Radiation in the Solar Industry
Source: https://www.unscear.org/docs/publications/2016/UNSCEAR_2016_Report-CORR.pdf (See note 48 and Table 45)

 

(Pg. 113) Abandoned Wind Turbines
Credit: Western Area Power (CC-BY-SA-2.0)

 

(Pg. 114) Turbine Blades Awaiting Burial in Casper, Wyoming
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

 

Fig. 45: Nuclear Has the Lowest Fatalities
Source: https://www.world-nuclear.org/gallery/the-harmony-programme/energy-accident-fatalities-for-oecd-countries.aspx

 

Fig. 46: Detail of Fatalities per Terawatt-Year

 

(Pg. 119) Wind Engineers
Credit: Northeast Marketing (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

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