The European Union is paying for a pilot processing-plant in the town.

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But although a number of other firms will soon join the race with pilot projects, no full-scale CCS coal plant has yet been commissioned.

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That might have killed the effort in the past, but thanks to the pilot plant, City of Hope is gearing up to conduct its own 60-person trial in collaboration with UCLA and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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Located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is a world first: a series of man-made tunnels 2, 150 feet underground, designed to accommodate radioactive waste.

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