Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheme cannot be dismissed as just a pipe dream. Last month Gaddafi opened a plant at Brega, south of Benghazi, where some of the 73-ton pipeline sections will be made. Price Bros. of Dayton, a company that is prevented by U.S. restrictions from operating in Libya, provided most of the technology to build the plant. The main contractor, the Dong-Ah Construction Co. of South Korea, is bringing in 8,000 workers to make and lay the pipes. The project seems to be unaffected by Washington's ban on U.S. exports to Libya or by President Reagan's January...
Soviet officials have said the Chernobyl disaster prompted a review of nuclear plant locations, which often are close to large population centers...
...large plant was built on Leningrad's outskirts, and smaller cities have grown up around other plants, like Chernobyl...
...There are many reasons for contemplation," Oleinik wrote. "But above all, many people have started to doubt the correctness of the site which was selected for the plant...
...Today, when so much effort is expended and so much of the people's money spent to protect water resources, this question [of the plant site] crops up again, and poses not only a lesson but a warning for the future," he said...