Russia now wants new inspection rules in place before delivering nuclear fuel to the power plant it is building at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf.
The fact that there is any power shortage this year after all the railroad building and power plant construction since 2004 undercuts the message that China is reforming its economy and seeking to rebalance it.
Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are challenging Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power over the monopoly's reluctance to increase its use of solar power, the ballooning costs of building a new nuclear power plant and even its legal right to monopoly status.
Russia's top contractor, Tekhnopromexport, said it would pull out its 370 employees who have been building a power plant outside Baghdad.
The five Ukrainians and three Russians released Tuesday after 19 hours at gunpoint were employees of contractor Inter Energo Servis (IES) building a power plant in Baghdad.
You can all but forget about building a power plant.
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She is betting big on the U.S. Areva is building a nuclear power plant component factory with Northrup Grumman in Virginia.
Building such a power plant from scratch is a hugely expensive undertaking.
Opponents point to the enormous cost of building a nuclear power plant and question whether the industry is economically viable without taxpayers footing much of the bill.
They mobilize their networks of contacts road construction teams, guys who sell diesel generators, or better yet the people they know who are building the new power plant, their friends at Huawei or ZTE to get the telecoms situation in shape.
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The Baltic states and Poland are also working on building a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania.
Monday, Japan time, another building at the Fukushima nuclear power plant housing the No. 3 exploded.
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Mr Morgan said that since the jobs at Anglesey Aluminium can only therefore be saved by having a specific and reliable energy source, the assembly government, the company, and the Department of Trade and Industry are looking at the option of building a small to medium sized power plant.
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The Russians are already building, nearly completed, a nuclear power plant in Iran.
In June, Statkraft began building the world's first osmotic power plant, and hopes to have it up and running by the end of the year.
Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, Atomstroiexport, is building the plant under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
The bright yellow dome of the steel containment vessel at Unit 4, Fukushima Daiishi nuclear power plant (FDI) is clearly visible amid the pulverized remains of the building in a new video released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
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Nuclear plants in particular have low running costs but enormous capital costs: investors must make a 20- or 30-year bet that power prices will remain high enough to pay off the cost of building the plant.
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At any rate, a group of municipal power companies in the American Midwest reckon that building a wind-powered compressed-air plant to take advantage of the blustery Great Plains will be worthwhile.
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The Federal Electricity Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed a rule last week, Order No. 1000, that aims to facilitate the building of transmission infrastructure, the wires that bring us electricity from the power plant or other generation device.
Indeed, the economics are so tricky that other countries have resorted to straight subsidies (as in America) or else to complicated long-term financing deals involving big power-users (as in Finland, which is building Europe's first new nuclear plant for over a decade).
The downgrade takes into consideration the enormous costs the company will incur as it recovers from this disaster, including costs for replacement power, the building of new generation plants to replace the permanently damaged plants, and the decommissioning of the contaminated plant.
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