The researchers took the most likely sabotage scenarios to Argonne's Natural Convection Shutdown Heat Removal Test Facility (NSTF) and tried to do their worst. They left that hatch open. They blocked ...

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In early 2013, New York’s then-governor Andrew Cuomo showed up in Dunkirk on a wintry day to announce with great fanfare that the NRG power plant in Dunkirk would be converted from a clean-coal ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo showed up in Dunkirk on a wintry day to announce with great fanfare that the NRG power plant in Dunkirk ...

Ukraine’s Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has been reconnected to the national power grid following a blackout caused by military action.

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