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Westinghouse and Sebata Group cooperate to develop nuclear power plants in South Africa
2013-10-25 01:00:00| Power Technology
Westinghouse has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South-African EPC company Sebata Group in preparation for the potential construction of AP1000 nuclear power plants in the country.
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TCEQ Dismisses Dallas Docs' 'Knee-Jerk' Call for Stricter Limits on Coal-Fired Power Plants
2013-10-24 18:10:57| Waste Management - Topix.net
Two months back, the Dallas County Medical Society petitioned the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to crack down on emissions coming from Luminant's three coal-fired power plants in North and Northeast Texas, which are among the nation's dirtiest.
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Study Finds High Levels of Carcinogens Downwind of Petrochemical Plants in Edmonton
2013-10-24 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: A newly published study says air downwind from a cluster of petrochemical plants northeast of Edmonton contains pollutants at levels equal to some of the world's largest cities. Other pollutants, including some known to cause cancer, also measured well above normal. And cancer rates linked to those chemicals were found to be higher in communities closest to the so-called Industrial Heartland. Although scientists don't definitively link the two, one of the report's co-authors said the findings...
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Russia Floats Plan for Nuclear Power Plants at Sea
2013-10-23 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Back in the early 1970s, U.S. utility companies, frustrated with growing public unease about nuclear power that made it difficult for them to find sites for new plants, came up with a wild brainstorm. Why not put full-sized nuclear power plants on barges and position them offshore, where they wouldn't be in anyone's backyard, unless you counted fish? The scheme never took off, according to a recent article by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission historian Thomas Wellock. Financing proved to be as...
EPA annual GHG report shows emissions from power plants declined 10% from 2010 due to growing use of natural gas
2013-10-23 19:30:18| Green Car Congress
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