Two or three others were hospitalized and released after contact with radioactive water in the partially flooded basement of a Fukushima Daiichi turbine power building.
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But Japanese power companies will have a harder time building new nuclear power plants from now on.
Because they grant construction permits, New Orleans officials have the power to veto building proposals.
This is used for lighting and power in the building with any surplus sold back to the electricity company.
These markets allow companies to recover the costs of building power plants that provide electric power during periods of peak demand.
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But if your organization is headed toward a collaborative structure and philosophy, then effective leadership becomes less about projecting power and more building relationships.
Lynch said his downtown facility now has a generator system robust enough to power the entire building for three weeks, including the air conditioning.
Now deregulated, electric utilities compete for what used to be captive customers, and many operate in non-regulated businesses, such as trading energy futures or building power plants on spec.
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The group and others have also noted that builders have benefited from an increase in projects related to building power plants and to getting natural gas out of major shale formations in the Appalachian mountains.
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The downgrade takes into consideration the enormous costs the company will incur as it recovers from this disaster, including costs for replacement power, the building of new generation plants to replace the permanently damaged plants, and the decommissioning of the contaminated plant.
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India is building the country's new parliament building, erecting power transmission lines in the north, and building more than 200km (125 miles) of roads.
According to the report, "the nation's power grid will be stressed in ways never before experienced" and reliability depends on building new power plants to cover the losses.
He cites China, where partly state-owned power firms are applying for credits for building gas-fired power plants instead of dirtier ones run on coal.
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Today Premji, by virtue of his building software power Wipro , is one of Asia s richest men.
Simply put, reducing demand is cheaper than building new power plants and transmission lines.
We're not building enough power-generating plants to meet demand, and we're beginning to pay the price.
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Construction workers building a power station in Cheshire have gone on strike due to "inadequate on-site facilities".
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But this year, the center introduced 10 stationary bikes (purchased through a donor) that send power back into the building.
At a homeless center in Michigan, residents work out on 10 specially outfitted bicycles that send power back into the building.
Russia's top contractor, Tekhnopromexport, said it would pull out its 370 employees who have been building a power plant outside Baghdad.
Recently, they had generators in place for a hurricane and kept the electricity coming for their building despite power outages around them.
Nobody knows this better than Sir Gordon Wu, the founder of Hopewell Holdings, one of the region's biggest power and road-building firms.
Foster Wheeler could hedge its exposure to fossil fuels by buying its way into the business of building nuclear power or desalination plants.
However, critics complain that there is still not enough competition among generation businesses because of the high costs associated with building new power plants.
Russia now wants new inspection rules in place before delivering nuclear fuel to the power plant it is building at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf.
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