Debris from the swollen River Thames has caused problems to the water cooler for the generating station which powers London Underground.

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The meltdown of three reactors at a single generating station in Japan in March rekindled old concerns about the safety of nuclear power.

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But then at 4:00 a.m. on Mar. 28, 1979 a cooling valve got stuck at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2.

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Battersea power station, for instance, a moderately interesting electricity-generating station built between the 1930s and 1950s, has blighted 16 hectares of riverbank opposite Chelsea for three decades.

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Ms. PATTON: The Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Generating Station collectively discharge some 77, 000 tons of smog and haze-forming oxides of nitrogen each year, and that is comparable to the amount of pollution that would be discharged from some 80 million motor vehicles.

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The power station stopped generating electricity in February last year.

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It states the station, which started generating electricity in 1971, will stop production in 2010.

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The first conventional geothermal power station, powered by hot springs near Larderello, Italy, began generating electricity in the early 1900s.

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