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Hinkley nuclear plant awaits go-ahead
2013-03-19 03:01:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Planning permission is expected to be given later for French firm EDF Energy to build the first new nuclear power plant in the UK for generations - at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
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Masdar cuts ribbon on worlds largest concentrated solar power plant
2013-03-19 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Abu Dhabi's Masdar project has officially inaugurated the world's largest solar thermal power project, after yesterday bringing online the 100MW Shams 1 concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. The $600m project, which was developed in partnership with oil giant Total and Spanish energy developer and solar specialist Abengoa, is now expected to displace approximately 175,000 tonnes of CO2 a year and act as a forerunner for further CSP projects in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). "The inauguration...
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Smithfield Packing to Close Maryland Plant
2013-03-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Smithfield Packing Company, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, is to move bone-in ham production from its Landover, Maryland, plant to its processing plants in North Carolina and Kentucky, and then permanently close the Landover plant by the early autumn.
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ABB to equip Italys Grazia Deledda Sulcis power plant with automation system
2013-03-19 01:00:00| Power Technology
Global power and automation group ABB will equip Italy's Grazia Deledda Sulcis power plant on the island of Sardinia with its Symphony Plus automation and control system.
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Japan: Power Blackout Halts Cooling at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
2013-03-18 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A power blackout occurred today at Japan`s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent fuel rods. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, said the blackout took place just before 7 pm Monday. The affected system is used to cool three pools containing about 2,100 spent fuel rods from the plant`s number 1, 3, and 4 reactors, which suffered core meltdowns in the week following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that...
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