power plants
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Watch Five Huge Power Plant Towers Collapse In Slow Motion
Few things are as satisfying as watching a building get demolished. Bonus points if it’s a gigantic structure, like Texas Stadium, or, say, five water-cooling towers for a power plant. Their crumble and fall was shown in slow motion by our old friends the Slow Mo Guys.
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Are All Of France’s Nuclear Power Plants Unsafe?
The French are great at lots of things: bread, cheese, wine, shrugging. Sadly, their nuclear power stations aren’t so amazing. They’re unsafe and need a massive overhaul.
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Yakuza, Lies, Danger Are Only A Few Reasons To Hate TEPCO
After decades of sterling grins and nuclear juice, TEPCO is finally being realised as the crooked, careless atom-monger it is. Jake Adelstein and Stephanie Nakajima detail the Fukushima-botching monopoly’s glowing green underbelly over at The Atlantic Wire.
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Nearly 50 US Nuclear Power Plants Are Leaking Tritium
Somewhere around 75 per cent of US nuclear power plants have been found leaking the radioactive element Tritium into the ground to various extents. Corroded piping buried underground seems to be the main problem, and a problem that can affect groundwater if ignored.