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 […]
