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Energy Disasters Around The World
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West Virginia State Police direct traffic at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Montcoal, W.Va. 29 coal miners were killed in the April 2010 explosion, one of the worst mining disasters in the US. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)
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Steam still rises from the ground due to a 1962 Pennsylvania underground coal mine fire, the worst disaster of its kind in U.S. history. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
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A rescued miner is carried above ground after a 2004 flooding accident at a coal mine in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Shen Qiao)
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Damage at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia after a 2009 turbine malfunction led to flooding and a building collapse that killed 75 people. (AP Photo/ Rossiiskaya Gazeta Newspaper)