Extra safety requirements could mean added expense in an industry where the up-front costs of building a nuclear power plant are already very high.

额外的安全需求可能意味着额外的成本投入，这样建设一座核电站的花费将会非常的高。

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The quake and tsunami cut the supply of off-site power to the plant and diesel generators intended to provide back-up electricity to the cooling system.

这次强烈的地震和海啸毁坏了电厂的外部电源和以柴油为动力的后备电源。这些电源是用于和电站紧急情况下为冷却系统提供电力供应的电源。

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The plan had been to transport up to 100, 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the power plant each year and inject it into depleted gas reservoirs at a giant gasfield near the Polish border.

“黑泵”原本计划打算每年从发电厂捕获10万吨二氧化碳，并把它们埋在靠近波兰边境的废弃的气田中。

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The Avalon wind project will generate up to 300 megawatts while the solar part of power plant will produce 100 megawatts.

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"Taking this major step toward cleaning up the Capitol Power Plant's emissions would be an important demonstration of Congress' willingness to deal with the enormous challenges of global warming, energy independence and our inefficient use of finite fossil fuels, " they wrote.

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She backed out the value of nonnuclear assets to come up with an enterprise value for nuclear power plant owners.

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