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  2. Cubatão - Wikipedia

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    The municipality was created by state law in 1948. [4]Map of the state of São Paulo (1948). In the early 1980s, Cubatão was one of the most polluted cities in the world, nicknamed "Valley of Death", due to births of brainless children and respiratory, hepatic and blood illnesses.

  3. Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista (Cosipa) - Wikipedia

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    These two objectives were consolidated through a R $1.1 billion investment plan in the equipment of the Cubatao plant, of which R $240 million was only for environmental control equipment. From mid-2005, after being formally integrated into the Usiminas System, it has shown a series of excellent financial results and other business indicators.

  4. List of industrial disasters - Wikipedia

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    Seventy-five people were killed at a hydroelectric power station when a turbine failed. The failed turbine had been vibrating for a considerable time. Emergency doors to stop the incoming water took a long time to close, while a self-closing lock would have stopped the water in minutes. February 7, 2010: 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion.

  5. The World Bank Group's Uncounted - The Huffington Post

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    The Tata group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building the nation’s first “ultra mega” coal-fired power plant. Find Out First ICIJ and The Huffington Post estimate that 3.4 million people have been physically or economically displaced by World Bank-backed projects since 2004.

  6. Glossary of power generation - Wikipedia

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    Undertaking abatement activities on a power plant would serve to reduce its carbon intensity. Carbon intensity: AGC Automatic generation control. Used by the system operators to control the output of generators connected to the electricity network Governor (device)

  7. Thermal power station - Wikipedia

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    A thermal power station, also known as a thermal power plant, is a type of power station in which the heat energy generated from various fuel sources (e.g., coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel, etc.) is converted to electrical energy. [1]

  8. Coal-fired power station - Wikipedia

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    Coal power plant wastestreams. Coal burning power plants kill many thousands of people every year with their emissions of particulates, microscopic air pollutants that enter human lungs and other human organs and induce a variety of adverse medical conditions, including asthma, heart disease, low birth weight and cancers.

  9. Availability factor - Wikipedia

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    The availability factor of a power plant is the duration it achieves production of electricity divided by the duration that it was planned to produce electricity. In the field of reliability engineering , availability factor is known as operational availability , A o {\displaystyle A_{o}} .