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How an unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab
Never used for their intended purpose, the cooling towers of Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) loom over treetops as I drive up to Satsop Business Park, about an hour and a half ...
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Coal Plant Cooling Tower Disappears in Cloud of Dust
A cooling tower at a decommissioned coal-fired power plant was destroyed with a controlled explosion in Hohenhameln, Germany, ...
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US abandoned nuclear plant finds surprising second life as world’s quietest sound lab
The two 496-foot-tall WNP-3 and WNP-5 cooling towers of the abandoned Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) in Satsop ...
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Coal-fired power plant, now retired, to become massive gas-powered campus for AI, data centers
The owners of what was once Pennsylvania's biggest coal-fired power ... proposed plant, meanwhile, can run on a hydrogen blend. Last month, the group demolished the three cooling towers and ...
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Pennsylvania power plant to become data center
The owners of what was once Pennsylvania's biggest coal-fired power plant said Wednesday ... The turbines ordered for the ...
Reversal of Fortune in Homer City: New Manufacturing Project a 'Game Changer'
Eleven days after the massive smokestacks and cooling towers of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant came down in ...
‘Impossible’: Nuclear authorities sound alarm as Russia signals plan to restart Zaporizhzhia power plant
Nuclear experts are warning of a potential catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, a site that has served ...
Coal-fired power plant to become gas-powered for AI, data centers
The owners of Pennsylvania’s largest former coal power plant plan to turn it into a US$10 billion natural gas-powered data ...