Mr. Lu, manager at a power plant in eastern China, a unit of the state-owned China Guodian Corp.

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MidAmerican Energy is the operator of a 1600 megawatt four unit coal-fired power plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa, commonly known as Walter Scott, Jr.

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Some of the Japanese reactors will not be restarted such as at the stricken No. 1 unit at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and others will begin operation only after months or years of investigation and retrofitting.

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To get this generation, many states now require fossil fuel powered generators to buy "green tags" from, for instance, solar generators, for every unit of power sold by that fossil plant.

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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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