Electrical Energy Production

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Electrical Energy Production
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Total US Energy Consumption (1998)
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World Oil Consumption 1950 and 1996
World Oil Consumption in 2001 76.2 MBPD (a 24
increase in the 5-year period since 1996)
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The Golden Triangle and US Military Bases in the
Persian Gulf
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Cheney Energy Task Force Map of Iraqi Oilfields
Obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of
Information Act
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Cheney Energy Task Force List of Foreign Suitors
for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts
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Existing and Potential Oil and Gas Export Routes
from the Caspian Basin
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Solar Power Solar Two in the Mojave Desert
Peak Output 10 megawatts
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Solar Electric Generating System in Kramer
Junction, CA
Ave. daily output 100 MW electricity
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Wind Power Nine Canyon Wind Project, Kennewick, WA
Phase II Expansion Completed 12/29/03 Peak
Output 63.7 MW
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Geothermal Energy
Hydrothermal Hot Dry Rock
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Grand Coulee Dam
Peak Output 6,500 MW
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Fish Hatcheries in the Columbia Basin
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Life Expectancy, Literacy Rate, and GDP per
Capita Compared with Annual per Capita
Electricity Use
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Columbia Generating Station Hanford Site,
Kennewich, WA
Output 1,150 MW
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From Bernard L. Cohen, The Nuclear Energy Option
(1990)
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The Linear (No-Threshold) Hypothesis
100 lethality
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0.0625 lethality
600 REM
400 REM
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0.5 REM
6,250 deaths from cancer in 10 million people
exposed to 0.5 REM of radiation
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The Linear (No-Threshold) Hypothesis-2
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Radiation Doses (in millirem) Naturally
Occurring and Statutory Limit for Nuclear Power
Plants
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Sources of Day-to-Day Radiation Exposure
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Background Radiation and EPA and NRC Regulations
First standard (1930s-1950s) 36 rem/year
Second standard 15 rem/year
Current Occupational MPD 5 rem/year
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From Mark M. Hart, Disabling the terror of
radiological dispersal, Nuclear News July 2003
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Death Rate of People in Nagasaki Atom Bomb
Survivors Compared with Those Not Exposed to
Radiation
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30-Year Cancer Mortality in People Exposed to
Radiation from a Thermonuclear Explosion in the
Former Soviet Union
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Prevention of Cancer by Low Dose Radiation
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Chernobyl--1986
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Three Mile Island
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Uranium and Fossil Fuel Resources in the United
States
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Nuclear Fusion Power Plant
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Thermal Conversion Process
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