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Fig. 10.1 Carbon dioxide emissions by fossil fuel type per unit of energy.
(Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Fig. 11.1 Estimated Levelized Cost of Electricity ($/MW-h). (Source:
U.S. Energy Information Administration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Fig. 12.1 Death rates from different forms of energy production.
(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy;
accessed 2/20/20; open access) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Fig. 12.2 View down the North Ramp of the Exploratory Studies Facility
inside Yucca Mountain. (Photographed in 1997 by Dan Soeder) . . . 234
Fig. 12.3 Editorial comment in a Nevada newspaper on the 1987
amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. (Source:
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
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