Dirk Bowman watches with pride as we walk along an assembly line, while workers tweak and twiddle with lines of cylindrical water heaters at this General Electric plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
Continue on to Mobile and a Mitsubishi Electric plant is emerging from the red earth and, some time next year, will account for 6% of the world's supply of polycrystalline silicon for compact discs and microchips.
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He worked in a General Electric manufacturing plant his whole life.
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By integrating various spatial, topographical and demographic databases, the Oak Ridge Siting Analysis for Power Generation Expansion (OR-SAGE) divides the U.S. into nearly 700 million 2.5-acre units that can be sliced and diced to determine if they are candidates for one or more types of electric power plant.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which operates the damaged nuclear plant, announced that all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, designed by General Electric, and all four, undamaged reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant have been shut off.
The owner of crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has requested further financial help from the Japanese government.
Nissan just announced that it will ramp up U.S. assembly of the 2013 model year all-electric LEAF at its manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn.
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Japanese media have became more critical of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the disaster, and have accused both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co of failing to provide enough information on the incident.
He is furious with Tokyo Electric Power, operator of the plant, for failing to acknowledge the long-term impacts of the disaster.
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Meanwhile, a new independent report on the cause of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster places most of the blame on the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company for allowing the plant to be so vulnerable in the first place.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
General Electric which designed the reactors, and Hitachi, which built most of the plant, are also advising the government and Tokyo Electric.
The police are particularly vigilant in preventing unauthorised people getting near the stricken plant, owned by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), Japan's biggest utility.
Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates the plant, later allowed workers to re-enter after establishing there was no fire and that radiation level in the area had not risen.
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said exposure to radiation levels in the No 3 reactor for four-and-a-half hours would exceed the emergency safety limit for power plant workers.
But many of those same unions are pro-nuclear, since Tokyo Electric Power, which runs the Fukushima plant among others, is a huge employer, as are such conglomerates as Hitachi and Toshiba, which build nuclear reactors.
British carmakers come late to the market but, in a positive sign of things to come, Nissan announced on March 20th a partnership with One North East, a regional-development agency, that may lead to the production of electric cars at Nissan's Sunderland plant.
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But the plant's operators, Kansai Electric, say they will not use the fuel.
The government and the utility company, Chubu Electric, had been trying to build this plant, against local opposition, for 37 years.
He said they had enlisted the help of a local manufacturing company to rewind the 18Kw electric motor, which failed on the main plant.
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Seven boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and the neighbouring Fukushima Daini plant, both operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), shut down on Friday.
It could be a long wait, says the BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo, as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has said it aims to bring the reactors to a cold shutdown within nine months.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) the plant operator, instituted power cuts for 5 million households in the area for three hours today.
The DeLorean Motor Company will be putting into production by 2013 a DMC-EV Electric DeLorean, that will have a body and power plant that will last you a life time.
It spares neither the government nor Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the operator of the nuclear plant.
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