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Video clip taken from:
Dr. Helen Caldicott - "Th" Thorium Documentary
   • Helen Caldicott - "Th" Thorium Documentary  

Environmentalist and sustainability groups who hate nuclear power with a passion seem to be in love with geothermal power not realizing that that their preferred source of renewable energy is many times more radioactive than the nuclear they hate.

Source for the article on radioactive waste:
The Desert Report
News of the desert from Sierra Club California/Nevada Desert Committee
December 2010

Page 14:
"A very large proportion of the national geothermal capacity is
in California, and it is the the southern sites that produce the most
waste. While dissolved solids represent less than 5% by weight of
production brines in most geothermal areas, this figure is closer to
30% in the Imperial Valley. A typical Imperial Valley plant in 2000
pulled up 410 tons of production brine per day which then produced
30 tons of filter cake and another 10 tons of solids from the
brine pool. About 360 tons of remaining fluids are then re-injected
into the underground reservoir (minus some cooling water). The
estimated total annual production of this solid waste in the Imperial
Valley, which may not be injected back into the ground, is
between 40,000 and 59,525 tons."
http://www.desertreport.org/wp-conten...

Also of note is the 360 tons of radioactive brine that has to be re-injected back into the ground each day.