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Chernobyl, Ukraine
On 26 April, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's number four reactor exploded, sending a radioactive cloud across much of Europe. Following the explosion, radioactivity with an intensity equivalent to 500 of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima at the...
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Centrica Lincs Offshore Wind Project, United Kingdom
The Lincs offshore wind farm is one of the five renewable projects under development by Centrica Renewable Energy (Centrica) in the Greater Wash. The proposed development will be located approximately 8km from the Skegness coast, immediately adjacent to the...
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Cefn Croes Wind Project, United Kingdom
The Cefn Croes Wind Project in Wales is the UK's largest onshore wind energy project. Located on a hillside near Devil's Bridge (Ceredigion), about 15km east of Aberystwyth, the project was opened in June 2005 with 39 GE 1.5MW...
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Cas Tresorer CCGT Plant, Mallorca, Spain
The recently opened 230MW Cas Tresorer CCGT plant in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, is already being expanded. The plant, which was the second of its type in the Balearic Islands, was originally opened by Endesa in July 2006 and...
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Canedo Hydro Power Plant, Portugal
The Canedo Hydro Plant is a mini hydraulic power plant developed on the Beca River, located in the district of Braganca, Trรกs-os-Montes, Portugal. Owned by Candedo and operated by Hidrocentrais Reunidas / RP Global Portugal, the construction of the...
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Campanillas CCGT, Malaga, Spain
Gas Natural built a 400MW Campanillas CCGT plant in Malaga, Spain. The โฌ300m plant is 60% efficient, and uses Alstom's GT26 gas turbine, steam turbine, heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and TOPGAS turbogenerator. Alstom was appointed...
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Caithness, United Kingdom
All of the nuclear reactors at Dounreay at Caithness, Scotland, have closed and the plant is being decommissioned. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) took ownership in April 2005, with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) still in charge of...
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