They squander land, damage plant and animal species through the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides, and waste huge amounts of water.
If we are talking about a hazardous environment such as a nuclear power plant, the damage caused by a single, un-networked sensor could be catastrophic, for two reasons: first the sensor failure itself could be the problem.
The town's high school and middle school, also close to the fertilizer plant, sustained heavy damage as well.
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On Tuesday, the company said research labs and plant sites showed no major damage.
The damage to the plant is being repaired, turbine by turbine, with full power expected to be restored by next year.
Authorities said it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region.
There was no damage to the plant, and supplies appeared adequate.
He wouldn't elaborate on the amount of damage at the plant, but photos spreading around Chinese microblogs Monday morning showed smashed store windows, an overturned car and riot police.
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The plant has not strengthened electrical cables to withstand fire damage for one to three hours, a regulation established to provide necessary plant security in the event of an emergency.
The plant has stopped operating amid serious damage and fears of a far greater nuclear catastrophe.
Damage at a chemical plant was also reported, with hundreds of people buried and tonnes of poisonous liquid ammonia released.
While Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has been grappling to bring the crisis under control, it has been hard to predict the extent of damage caused to the plant and also to the surrounding areas because of radiation leaks.
Company engineers believe that running the plant at lower power will halt the damage.
"No damage was done to Bushehr power plant, " Bushehr provincial governor Fereidoun Hasanvand told state TV.
Three more people were arrested at the pump house area of the plant on suspicion of aggravated trespass and criminal damage, police said.
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The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage to its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, resulting in radiation leaks which forced the evacuation of almost 80, 000 people from the surrounding area.
To make matters worse, some claim that their handset was scratched straight out of the box, with the damage having occurred at the assembly plant before the iPhone 5 was put into the box.
An earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan early in the year rocked the nuclear community after the Fukushima Daiichi plant, operated by Tepco, suffered substantial damage to various reactors and some partial meltdowns, with radiation leakage.
In the Adairsville storm, winds caused significant damage to a motel and a manufacturing plant, according to Craig Millsap, fire chief and interim emergency management director for Bartow County.
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The guidance, once again, was that after careful analysis of data, radiation levels and damage assessments to all units at the plant, our independent experts at the NRC are in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20-kilometer radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30 kilometers.
Earlier this month, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern called for the Sellafield plant to close amid concerns about terrorist threats and environmental damage.
Even as Japanese responders continue to do heroic work, we know that the damage to the nuclear reactors in Fukushima Daiichi plant poses a substantial risk to people who are nearby.
The sludge has caused massive damage to Hungarian villages and towns close to the plant, as well as a wide swathe of farmland.
New rules imposed by the NRC require plant operators to install or improve venting systems to limit core damage in a serious accident and set up sophisticated equipment to monitor water levels in pools of spent nuclear fuel.
Onagawa's plant was high enough above sea level to survive the tsunami without enormous damage.
This straightforward approach is risk-based, in that the organisms required to undergo case-by-case governmental review are an enhanced-risk group organisms that can injure or damage plants compared to plants not considered to be plant pests.
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Mr Jenkins said the plant dies down in winter leaving river banks exposed, and any flooding can damage the banks.
The Dallas-based semiconductor maker said that its factory in Miho which accounted for about 10% of its revenue in 2010 received "substantial" damage, particularly to the systems that deliver chemicals, gases and water to the plant.
It calculates how many pounds of carbon dioxide his travels are generating, so the company can then plant enough trees (or use an increasingly popular alternative like methane capture) to offset the damage to the environment.
Japan's stocks lost 17% in 2011 in the wake of March's devastating tsunami, which saw 20, 000 lives lost and affected manufacturing of some of the world's most vital component suppliers, not to mention severe damage to the country's energy sector, including a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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