The federal government will provide a $1.5 billion loan to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan, officials announced Wednesday. Holtec International acquired the 800-megawatt Palisades plant in 2022 with plans to dismantle it. But now the emphasis is on restarting it by late 2025, following support from the state of Michigan and the […]
JENKINSVILLE, S.C.—Federal regulators have lessened the severity of their warning about cracks discovered in a backup emergency fuel line at a South Carolina nuclear plant northwest of the state capital. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission downgraded its preliminary “yellow” warning for V.C. Summer Nuclear Station issued this October to a final “white” one after owner […]
A chemical leak that killed six workers at a Georgia poultry plant in 2021 resulted from a poorly designed freezer that spilled deadly liquid nitrogen as well as a failure by the plant’s owner to install safety equipment and properly train employees for emergencies, a federal agency has concluded. “This needless and senseless tragedy was […]
GARLAND, Texas—A worker was injured early Monday when an explosion set a paint manufacturing plant in the Dallas suburbs ablaze and shot a series of fireballs into the night sky. A company spokesperson said the blast at the Sherwin-Williams plant in Garland happened around 1:15 a.m., and people who live and work nearby reported feeling […]
A 16-year-old employee died Friday at a Mississippi chicken processing plant, a county official said. The teen died at Mar-Jac Poultry in Hattiesburg, about 100 miles southeast of Jackson, deputy coroner Lisa Klem at the Forrest County Coroner’s Office told CNN. An autopsy was completed, but the results have not been released, Ms. Klem said. […]
WADESBORO, N.C.—One worker is dead after an explosion at a North Carolina plant, according to a county official. Firefighters called to the Darling Ingredients rendering plant in the Wadesboro area around 9 p.m. Thursday found a plume of smoke, Anson County Emergency Services Chief Rodney Diggs said. After air monitoring determined that there wasn’t a […]
FRANKLIN, Texas—One person was killed when a boiler exploded at a southeastern Texas power plant Wednesday morning, according to a spokesperson for Dallas-based Luminant. “A contractor was fatally injured” in the blast about 8 a.m. at the Oak Grove Power Plant, according to a statement from spokesperson Meranda Cohn for Luminant, which owns the plant. […]
ATLANTA—Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution announced Thursday they will build a $4.3 billion electric battery plant as part of Hyundai’s new electric vehicle assembly plant in southeast Georgia. The companies will split the investment, starting production as soon as late 2025. Hyundai Motor Co. CEO Jaehoon Chang said in a statement that the […]
KYIV—Ukraine reconnected the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to its external power supply on Monday after a brief outage that had left it reliant on emergency generators. Back-up diesel generators had earlier kicked in at the plant in southern Ukraine to ensure nuclear fuel was kept cool and prevent a potential disaster. Each side blamed […]
Kansas officials are planning to hand over more than $300 million in taxpayer-funded incentives for a semiconductor company to build a new factory in the state’s largest city. But there’s a catch: The project won’t go forward without funds promised by the federal government for rebuilding the nation’s chip-making capacity. According to Gov. Laura Kelly […]
The world’s largest electric vehicle maker, BYD, is planning to launch a new factory in Vietnam. Sources said that the plant would start making car parts for the company by mid-year, with the investment to build it exceeding $250 million. The move would reduce China-based BYD’s reliance on its home country, and deepen its supply […]
A chemical plant in northern Illinois went up in flames on Wednesday morning, sending up plumes of black smoke and prompting officials to advise nearby residents to shelter in place as emergency crews responded to the blaze. The fire broke out at the Carus Chemical Company complex in LaSalle, a city of less than 10,000 […]
Authorities in Georgia ordered evacuations of neighborhoods following a large fire at a chemical plant near Brunswick on Monday morning. The blaze and explosion were reported at the Symrise production site on Colonel Island, officials in Glynn County said in a statement. “A fire has broken out at the Symrise production site Colonel Island,” the statement […]
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While we usually think of flowers being pleasantly fragrant, that’s not the case with this one unique tropical plant. And that very special bloom is often known as the “corpse flower.” NTD spoke to a greenhouse expert on the first of these flowers, set to release its special scent into Silicon Valley.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—An uncontrolled fire raging at a North Carolina fertilizer plant forced the evacuations of thousands of people as firefighters warned early Tuesday that chemicals at the site could cause a large explosion. Authorities drove through neighborhoods and knocked on doors asking residents to leave within a one-mile radius (1.6 km) of the Weaver Fertilizer […]
PASSAIC, N.J.—A fire near a New Jersey chemical plant with flames and smoke visible for miles in the night sky spread to multiple buildings in the complex Friday, threatening to reach the plant’s chemical storage area, authorities said. Passaic Mayor Hector Lora told residents in a video posted on Facebook to stay away from the […]
Four people were injured when a fire erupted on Thursday at Exxon’s complex in Baytown, Texas, one of the largest refining and petrochemical facilities in the United States. All other personnel were accounted for, Exxon said, adding that its emergency response crews were still working to extinguish the blaze. The Baytown plant houses a chemical […]
MADRID—One person has died and three have been taken to hospital after a carbon dioxide leak at the Asco nuclear power plant in the Spanish region of Catalonia, local emergency services said on Wednesday. A fault in the plant’s fire prevention system caused the gas leak, which was not linked to any radioactive material, the […]
Small employers like Bob Roth on Friday voiced frustration with President Joe Biden’s mandate that workers either get vaccinated or tested regularly to combat the spread of COVID-19. The co-owner of RoMan Manufacturing, a producer of transformers and glass-molding equipment in Grand Rapids, Michigan, supports vaccination but worries about increased costs, such as for testing […]
