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Power plant / Power plant

#1 Didcot power stations

Didcot power station (Didcot B Power Station) is an active natural gas power plant that supplies the National Grid . A combined coal and oil power plant , Didcot A, was the first station on the site which opened in 1970 [4] [5] and was demolished between 2014 and 2020. [6] The power station is situa

• ... ional Combustion (since 1997 known as ABB Combustion Services ), and a steam turbine . 2014 FIRE On 19 october 2014 just after 8pm, three of the mechanical wooden cooling towers serving one of the steam turbine ...

#2 Itaipu Dam

The Itaipu Dam ( Portuguese : Barragem de Itaipu [itɐjˈpu] , Spanish : Represa de Itaipú [itajˈpu] ) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay . The construction of the dam was first contested by Argentina , but the negotiations and resolution of th

• ... tlement was reached with the signing of the Acordo Tripartite by Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, on october 19, 1979. This agreement established the allowed river levels and how much they could change as a resul ...

#3 Burrinjuck Dam

Burrinjuck Dam is a heritage-listed major gated concrete-walled gravity hydro-electric dam at Burrinjuck , Yass Valley Shire , New South Wales , Australia. It has three spillways across the Murrumbidgee River located in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales , Australia . The dam's purpose

• ... of the dam which recommended a new remedial works program. DEATHS At 8 A.M. on Thursday morning of 19 october 1950, 9 men plunged to their deaths after a platform collapsed unexpectedly. The men were pulled in ...

#4 LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station

LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station , located in Brookfield Township, LaSalle County, Illinois , near Marseilles , 11 miles (18   km) southeast of Ottawa , serves Chicago and Northern Illinois with electricity. The plant is owned and operated by Constellation Energy following separation from E

• ... Operational Construction began September 10, 1973 Commission date Unit 1: October 20, 1982 Unit 2: october 19, 1984 [1] Owner(s) Constellation Energy Operator(s) Constellation Energy Nuclear power station React ...

#5 Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River , on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona . It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Its c

• ... to U.S. Route 95 or Nevada State Routes 163 / 68 . [118] The four-lane Hoover Dam Bypass opened on october 19, 2010. [119] It includes a composite steel and concrete arch bridge , the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillm ...

#6 Fermi 1

Fermi 1 was the United States ' only demonstration-scale breeder reactor , built during the 1950s at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station on the western shore of Lake Erie south of Detroit, Michigan . It used the sodium-cooled fast reactor cycle, in which liquid sodium metal is used as the pr

• ... evelopment Associates (APDA). [5] The AEC gave the organization the go-ahead for detailed design on 19 october 1952. Development proceeded slowly until President Eisenhower signed the Atomic Energy Act in Augus ...

#7 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation . It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2   km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee , near Spring City , between the cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville . Watts Bar supplies enough electr

• ... uly 20, 1973 Unit 2: September 1, 1973 [lower-alpha 1] Commission date Unit 1: May 27, 1996 Unit 2: october 19, 2016 [lower-alpha 1] Construction cost More than $12 billion Owner(s) Tennessee Valley Authority Op ...
• ... ection on the switchyard affected equipment and the final full power testing was completed. [13] On october 19, 2016 the Watts Bar 2 was the first United States reactor to enter commercial operation since 1996. ...

#8 Seto Windhill

The Seto Windhill ( 瀬戸ウインドヒル発電所 , Seto uindo hiru hatsudensho ) is a collection of wind turbines located on the peaks of mountains along the Sadamisaki Peninsula , in the town of Ikata , Ehime Prefecture , Japan . The windfarm borders the Seto Wind Hill Park. Wind farm in Ehime Prefecture, Japan Vie

• ... Seto Wind Hill Park. Wind farm in Ehime Prefecture, Japan View from the neighboring park, taken on october 19, 2005. The installation consists of 11 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MWT-1000s with a nameplate capaci ...