David Plant is an industry veteran whose been involved in digital media in both technology and production.
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Critics of the nuclear power industry say the plant is unsafe to operate at any power level and should be shut down permanently and dismantled.
Opponents point to the enormous cost of building a nuclear power plant and question whether the industry is economically viable without taxpayers footing much of the bill.
And, even if Juragua were never finished, Florida has several potential radiation sources of its own not just the state's own (safer) nuclear plant, but also its active phosphate industry.
As plant genetics research advances, however, industry scientists hope that it will be possible to breed cottonseed that produces superior flour, high-quality lint, and oil, so that almost every ingredient in a birthday cake can be produced with the leftovers from Nelson's cotton production.
Sellafield nuclear plant bosses have been condemned as throwing the industry's future "into doubt", in the light of a damning report into its safety standards.
Weak firms were always likely to go under. (And some stronger ones are still expanding in Britain witness Honda's announcement this week that it will be producing a new model at its Swindon plant.) More important, the car industry has a totemic status that is out of proportion to its real economic significance.
The Greens had shut down Hoechst's new plant to produce insulin, setting back the biotech industry ten years.
Though an attack on an Algerian plant revived fears over the safety of oil-industry operations in remote parts of the Mideast and Africa, BP's deadliest operating locations in the past 14 years were U.S. retail fuel stations.
The answer is yes -- each one of them is designed to withstand an earthquake, without releasing any radioactive materials at all, up to the maximum projected seismic event at that plant, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington.
Activating the Rokkasho plant would produce that much each year, said officials and industry experts.
It is also making cheaper PVC-based vinyl gloves, which are marketed to the food industry, in China, where it now has one plant and is adding a second.
He twice vetoed farming subsidies and he stopped government entry into the utilities industry by killing a project to operate the old wartime plant at Muscle Shoals in Alabama.
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Plant-specific unions are, however, not uncommon in the industry.
"The kind of decisions SSE is taking, to close existing generation plant on the one hand and delay investing in new plant on the other, is likely to be reflected across the industry in the coming months, " said Paul Smith, managing director of SSE.
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The regulations governing new plant licensing and construction were overhauled in the 1990s at the behest of industry, and the Nuclear Energy Institute the trade association for the industry today offers no such complaints about federal regulation.
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On Friday Mr Jones visited the construction site of a new nuclear power plant and called on British company to seize opportunities to invest in the nuclear industry.
The company, which now employs 17, 700 people around the world, supplies plant, equipment, and services for hydropower stations and the pulp and paper industry, and is also involved in the production of animal feed and biomass pellets, among other ventures.
But states are not competing with one another for limited natural-gas industry jobs and capital as they compete for, say, an automotive plant.
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Some of the people evacuated from the immediate vicinity of the plant returned home two days later, considerably more skeptical of Tokaimura's main industry.
For example, in the ethanol business, it is almost inconceivable that there is any investment in plant or equipment whose return matches that from the political investment that has provided the industry a combination of direct subsidies, mandated use, and protection from foreign competitors.
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Professor Asis Datta, director of the National Centre for Plant Genome Research, says more crops with enhanced nutrition are needed - and he believes industry will not provide them.
Jack Cunningham, the former Cabinet Office minister and Labour MP for Copeland, in which the Sellafield plant is located, says the scandal has thrown the future of Britain's nuclear industry into doubt.
Mr Morgan said that since the jobs at Anglesey Aluminium can only therefore be saved by having a specific and reliable energy source, the assembly government, the company, and the Department of Trade and Industry are looking at the option of building a small to medium sized power plant.
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Existing membranes cater to the desalination industry and haven't combined the two essential features needed for an osmotic power plant, said Skilhagen.
The government has promised compensation for the fishing industry and Tepco has already unveiled plans to compensate residents and farmers around the nuclear plant.
Many industry watchers thought the company was exiting the antibiotic area when it shut down a crucial plant.
And so hopefully your grandfather, with his ethanol plant, is starting to work with our Department of Agriculture to find new approaches to the biofuel industry.
However Keith Parker, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, said it was misleading to draw parallels between Fukushima and the proposed new plant at Wylfa.
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