By integrating various spatial, topographical and demographic databases, the Oak Ridge Siting Analysis for Power Generation Expansion (OR-SAGE) divides the U.S. into nearly 700 million 2.5-acre units that can be sliced and diced to determine if they are candidates for one or more types of electric power plant.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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He is furious with Tokyo Electric Power, operator of the plant, for failing to acknowledge the long-term impacts of the disaster.
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Meanwhile, a new independent report on the cause of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster places most of the blame on the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company for allowing the plant to be so vulnerable in the first place.
The owner of crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has requested further financial help from the Japanese government.
Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates the plant, later allowed workers to re-enter after establishing there was no fire and that radiation level in the area had not risen.
But many of those same unions are pro-nuclear, since Tokyo Electric Power, which runs the Fukushima plant among others, is a huge employer, as are such conglomerates as Hitachi and Toshiba, which build nuclear reactors.
Japanese media have became more critical of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the disaster, and have accused both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co of failing to provide enough information on the incident.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) the plant operator, instituted power cuts for 5 million households in the area for three hours today.
The police are particularly vigilant in preventing unauthorised people getting near the stricken plant, owned by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), Japan's biggest utility.
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said exposure to radiation levels in the No 3 reactor for four-and-a-half hours would exceed the emergency safety limit for power plant workers.
But he was more excited about power-plant processes at Hong Kong Electric, which, like a lot of things around town, he controls.
Seven boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and the neighbouring Fukushima Daini plant, both operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), shut down on Friday.
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Despite several low-level nuclear accidents, Japan's power generators such as Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), owner of the Fukushima plant, have sworn blind that their safety records are exemplary and there is no danger of any meltdowns.
It could be a long wait, says the BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo, as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has said it aims to bring the reactors to a cold shutdown within nine months.
It spares neither the government nor Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the operator of the nuclear plant.
Its owner, NRG, has wished to expand the facility from two reactors to four, with partial financing from the Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which operates the damaged nuclear plant, announced that all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, designed by General Electric, and all four, undamaged reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant have been shut off.
FutureGen would be a near zero-emissions plant that converted coal into hydrogen, to power electric turbines, and carbon dioxide, to be pumped underground.
According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), workers at the Fukushima Daiichi (FDI) nuclear power plant have been evacuated.
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Shares of Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), owner of the troubled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, soared 18.8% on Friday.
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Workers at the plant have received considerably higher levels of exposure, according to data from Tokyo Electric Power Co.
For example, the task force said that the NRC should require plant owners to put measures into place to help workers cope with a loss of electric power and its on-site emergency backups, called a station blackout.
The government and Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) said it would take until next January to achieve a cold shut-down at the plant.
American Electric Power ( AEP - news - people )'s 1.3-gigawatt coal plant in New Haven, West Virginia began burying 1.5% of its carbon dioxide under a cap of dolomite 7, 800 feet below the Ohio River.
Tepco, the Japanese power company that owns the Fukushima plant has reportedly ordered 10 truck-mounted gas turbines from General Electric.
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