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Lynas Australia plans to re-use its mill tailings from its rare earth production in Malaysia for road construction purposes. As those tailings are large masses and rich in thorium, radiological doses would result from that use. Comparing the collective doses of this re-use with collective doses from nuclear energy production shows that a wind power plant constructed with rare earth magnets so poses doses in the lower range of nuclear power production as per GWa.
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Schmidt, G. (2015). Does wind energy production cause more radioactive doses than nuclear power plants?. In: Merkel, B., Arab, A. (eds) Uranium - Past and Future Challenges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11059-2_27
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