ATLANTA (AP) — The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation, capping a project that cost billions more and took years longer than originally projected. Georgia Power Co. and fellow owners announced the milestone Monday for Plant Vogtle's Unit 4, which joins an earlier new reactor southeast of Augusta in splitting atoms to make carbon-free electricity. Unit ...
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The city of Sacramento’s plan to redevelop the former Arco Arena site in North Natomas is moving one step closer this week with a vote on financing the project. The Sacramento City Council on Tuesday is expected to vote on the term sheet for issuing bonds for Innovation Park, a major complex on the 183-acre site where the Sacramento Kings’ arena stood that would feature a teaching hospital, ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A wooden cross is laden with Miguel Luna’s personal belongings — his construction uniform and work boots, a family photo, the flag of his native El Salvador — but his body remains missing after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. More than a month has passed since six members of a roadwork crew plunged to their deaths when a container ship lost power and crashed into ...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said Friday. The data center planned for Fort Wayne was announced in January. But Google disclosed the project's cost Friday and said it is expected to create up to new 200 jobs, ...
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Among the vast array of strange and surprising mascots for the city of Portland, perhaps the most unlikely is an old carpet. That carpet is the “iconic” Portland International Airport carpet, originally installed in 1988. It is a heady ‘80s design, teal with blue, purple and red lines and dots, meant to represent what air traffic controllers see on the screen. The carpet has been mostly gone ...
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In one of the state’s largest jobs announcements of the year so far, the Vietnamese solar producer Boviet Solar promises to create more than 900 jobs at a future facility in the Eastern North Carolina city of Greenville. The company was founded in 2013 and manufactures photovoltaic modules technologies which convert sunlight to energy. By 2028, Boviet says it will create 908 jobs and invest ...
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Apr. 26—Residents of northern Niagara County are beginning to let out cautiously optimistic sighs of relief. Long-awaited cleanup work is set to begin in May on a former TNT plant and radioactive waste storage site in the Town of Lewiston. The 191-acre Niagara Falls Storage Site, formerly part of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works property, was used to manufacture TNT, or trinitrotoluene, in 1941 ...
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The construction of a major battery manufacturing complex in Queen Creek announced by South Korean-company LG Energy Solution last year is on track to be completed in two years with the first round of hiring expected to begin at the end of this year. The company provided progress updates on its $5.5 billion standalone facility during a stakeholder meeting Won April 3 at Combs High School in ...
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NEW CARLISLE, Ind. (AP) — Amazon ’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center in northern Indiana that will create at least 1,000 new jobs, state and company officials announced Thursday. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb called the project planned near the town of New Carlisle, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of South Bend, “the largest capital ...
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LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Government supporters of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey and New York are trading blows with opponents in some shore towns who say many vacationers and local residents don't want to see turbines filling the ocean horizon. Eight Jersey Shore beach towns wrote to state utility regulators Wednesday, saying one wind farm proposal will be vastly more ...
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