The power plant has been shut down since this winter, when a small amount of radioactive gas escaped from a steam generator during a water leak.
Mr. McCullough said he felt safe in his second-floor home with a generator, food and water.
Heat from the sun boils water to run a steam turbine generator, which delivers power to the grid.
For now, Mr Yang's school is holding out, with a diesel generator and cans of water supplied by well-wishers.
Agoglia hauls a multi-terrain hovercraft, dirt bikes, satellite phones with GPS tracking, a huge generator and a large water pump.
Survivors told rescuers the ship was taking on water, and the crew decided to leave after the generator was flooded.
But paper production consumes massive amounts of fresh water, pollutes the water it doesn't use and is a major generator of hazardous air pollutants.
Ivanpah is a solar concentrator project, using fields of mirrors, known as heliostats, to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. (This project when finished will include 173, 000 heliostats.) The concentrated sunlight is used to heat water, generating steam which is used to turn a traditional turbine and generator to produce electricity.
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Each of the reactors will be a small, modular, 125MW advanced light water reactor, which at the present time includes a design for the nuclear core and steam generator to be located at the same site, with passive safety designs.
But somehow we lost power in our generator and in our main engines, and as a result, we could not pump any water out of the boat.
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