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NRC Issues Peach Bottom A Low-Level Violation

Last year, a technician at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station deliberately failed to follow plant procedures by entering a designated high radiation area to adjust a valve.

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Relief Expected At Pump As BP Project Winds Down

HAMMOND | Motorists should see some relief at the gas pumps when the massive $4.2 billion modernization project at the BP Whiting Refinery is completed by the end of the year.

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Comtec Solar Plant A Sign Of Intensifying Investments

KUCHING: China-based Comtec Solar Group (Comtec) via its subsidiary Comtec Solar International (M) Sdn Bhd has formally officiated the ground breaking for its RM1.2 billion solar wafer manufacturing...

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If Oil Refinery Inspection Staff Triples, Will You Be Safer?

A year after the Chevron refinery explosion in Richmond, the legislature is on the verge of tripling the inspection staff for refineries....

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Monticello Plant Affected By NRC Venting Installation Order

A recently issued Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) order will require the Monticello Nuclear Generation Plant to improve two pressure venting systems.

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Xcel Still Reviewing Preliminary Yellow Tag Finding

Xcel Energy officials are still reviewing a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) preliminary finding assigned to the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant.

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TVA Credits Pollution Reduction At Power Plants For Clearer Air In The Smokies

The mountains of East Tennessee are getting back to being more smoky and less smoggy because the Tennessee Valley Authority has spent a combined $5.3 billion since the 1970s curtailing air pollutants...

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Texas Energy Company To Pay $150,000 For Racial Bias

Torqued-Up Energy Services, Inc., a Tyler-based petroleum and gas industry equipment provider, will pay $150,000 to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal...

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Misconduct In BP Case? New Report Alleges Corruption.

A lawyer working for the team reviewing claims from the multibillion-dollar settlement over BP's Gulf oil spill has been accused of receiving payments from a law firm representing a claimant.

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More Landscape Disturbance Publications From USGS

"Landscape change in Pennsylvania's Somerset and Westmoreland counties resulting from construction of well pads, new roads and pipelines for natural gas and coalbed methane exploration is being...

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New Advancement Helping To Change The Oil Industry

Diesel fuel is currently the most common source oil rigs turn to when operating light towers, however, Assisted Energy is a new company in the Permian Basin that has brought some big changes to the oil...

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Alaska LNG Project Companies Miss Parnell's Deadline

From left: BP CEO Robert Dudley, ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. The group met in Anchorage in February to discuss LNG export through...

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Kerry Seeks 'Full Potential' In India

The group said India and the United States could together boost solar power and increase energy efficiency standards, which would put a serious dent in carbon emissions as India's burgeoning middle...

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Will Eklutna Hydropower Players Honor Salmon Run Accord? Unlikely.

However, according to Gary Prokosch, chief of the water resources section in the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the municipality must compensate the purchasers for any loss of power....

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Put The Brakes On Cook Inlet Fracking

Fracking has been used extensively in the Prudhoe Bay fields for years. On the North Slope health problems are minimized due to the unpopulated area and permafrost. The regulations seem to be primarily...

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Subsidy Removal Will Surely Benefit Zambians-Chenda

Minister of Commerce, Trade, and Industry Emmanuel Chenda has reiterated that the removal of subsidies on petroleum products and maize will necessitate economic and infrastructure development in the...

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Ameren Cleaning Up Former Coal Gasification Site In Decatur

A big dig will soon be under way to rid Decatur of the last traces of something that was once its civic pride and joy: a manufactured gas plant that kept the lights on and provided gas for heat and...

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Radioactive Water Leaked From Flowmeter Cap At Fukushima Plant

A worker refastened the capping too tightly after removing it to clean the inside. That generated a crack, which leaked water under pressure, TEPCO officials said....

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Uranium Mine Involves Much More Than Money

Actually, there is much more to the story. The planned mine at Roca Honda signals the return of an industry that once played a vital role in the New Mexico economy and will again....

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Oil Output Hits Peak, So Higher Costs Await Us

Hubbert (a Shell Oil geophysicist from 1943 to 1964) predicted the U.S. peak in oil production around the early 1970s, and sure enough, the data proved him right as the U.S. peaked in 1971 at nearly 10...

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