Onagawa's plant was high enough above sea level to survive the tsunami without enormous damage.
Yet, costs at the plant were high compared with what Japanese companies were paying workers at their own plants.
The use of cellulose and cardanol, both plant resources, as the plastic's primary components produces a plastic that features a high plant component ratio of more than 70%.
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At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.
In conjunction with another study, researchers strapped plant workers with high-tech backpacks and electrodes to study precisely how they cut chickens.
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Ford's automotive operations in North America are hemorrhaging, amid a vicious price war, high plant and labor costs and plummeting market share.
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"When I finally ran out and looked back at the plant, I saw high flames, " Wang, 44, was quoted as saying.
Daniel's newest creation is a straight-stemmed plant that stands 3 meters high and has thick, well-spaced clumps of flowers.
Daniel's newest creation is a straight-stemmed plant that stands 8 feet high and has thick, well-spaced clumps of flowers.
Drilling rigs are 40m (130ft) high, the plant would take 12 months to build and take up an acre during that time and half an acre after.
Here in the Naranjo region, in Costa Rica's central highlands, Raul Herrera has been using profits from last year's high prices to plant banana trees among coffee plants.
It ought to be poised for an export-led boom: it has a hugely competitive exchange rate, good infrastructure and has had a decade of high investment in plant and machinery.
The seats--enough for about 20 vehicles--are loaded, in sequence of vehicles to be made, onto conveyor belts, where they travel high in the plant's rafters down to the spot on the assembly line where Nissan workers are ready to install them.
Among the scorched buildings in the shadow of the plant were the town's high school and intermediate school.
However, with high unemployment and idle plant and equipment, no one can reasonably argue that these dangers are imminent.
Korean automakers, therfore, are not likely to be terribly attractive to buyers given their own high debt and underutilized plant.
Crawford said the track team probably would have been at the high school when the plant erupted if they hadn't stopped to eat on their way back from a meet.
For both foreign and domestic carmakers, the U.S. has become a more attractive place to assemble vehicles for sale in other countries for multiple reasons: currency exchange rates that effectively lowered U.S. labor costs, new free-trade pacts, high quality and available plant capacity.
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Control Room operators did not always demonstrate high standards associated with nuclear plant operations.
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The big challenges are the high cost of a conversion plant and their technical complexity.
Brecon Beacons National Park Authority lost a High Court challenge over the plant in 2010.
The technique works by focusing high-powered microwaves on plant-based material, transforming the tough cellulose molecules of the plant matter into volatile gases.
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It has been well established that as compared to traditional plant-based diets, Western diets high in saturated fat are associated with increased weight gain.
Even companies that few would consider high-tech were eager to plant a flag in wearable computing.
Worse still, the plant is built on sandy soil with a high water table.
Samsung's main camera plant in China is being converted to produce high-end mirrorless cameras instead of cheaper compacts.
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The court, however, overturned an earlier order of the Madras High Court to shut down the plant over long-standing environmental concerns.
The Madras High Court said the copper smelting plant had been "letting out effluents into air and water which is having a devastating impact".
Iran told the agency that no nuclear material had been introduced into the plant, and enrichment levels would only be high enough to make nuclear fuel, not a bomb.
Samsung already has a smaller chip plant there and likes the area's large high-tech workforce.
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