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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 ...
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 ...
Old coal-fired power plant to become gas-powered campus for AI, data centers
It would be the nation's largest gas-fired power plant and the nation's third-largest power generation facility after the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington and a new plant in Georgia.
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Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.
Reversal of fortune in Homer City: New manufacturing project a ‘Game Changer’
Homer City Redevelopment announced an exciting new manufacturing project: a natural gas power center to power a massive data ...