The friction in dealing with faraway Chinese factories, once ignored, is now a big consideration in plant-location decisions.
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In the case of a power plant, that includes the location of the plant and the efficiency with which it transforms gas into electricity.
The latter proved a somewhat astonishing reminder of forgotten lessons about nuclear power risks, unique to that technology: A failure of one power plant in an isolated location can create a contagion in countries far away, and even where somewhat different variants of that technology are in use.
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For a power plant, that includes its location and the efficiency with which it transforms gas into electricity.
When completed, the Yizheng location will be Plant 5, and may ultimately exceed the capacity of the Shanghai locations.
Location of the new plant is most likely to be in the northcentral U.S near an existing chemical plant.
Tens of thousands of middle-class citizens, galvanised by China's rapidly developing social media, took to the streets to complain about what they feared was the dangerous location of a chemical plant about 20km from the city centre.
America, Britain and France revealed the location and purpose of the plant at last month's G20 summit.
In the meantime, 2 Chicks With Chocolate has temporarily relocated its manufacturing plant to the back room of its retail location.
The BP Group chief executive, Bob Dudley, said the company was "unable to confirm the location or situation" of four employees at the plant.
As a result of this, Uzbekistan decided to plant mines along its border with Tajikistan, without informing the Tajikistan authorities of their location.
For plant closings, notice is required if 50 or more workers lose their jobs in one location.
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