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Power Plants

 
 
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Disease relevance of Power Plants

  • To put into perspective the costs of controlling emissions from American power plants, we have estimated the economic costs of methyl mercury toxicity attributable to mercury from these plants [1].
  • Sera of patients with various pulmonological disorders, irradiated during the liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant incident (a high-risk group in lung cancer), were also analysed [2].
  • However, some blue-collar occupations, such as power plant operators and stationary engineers, brickmasons, machinery maintenance workers, airplane pilots, longshoreman, railroad industry workers, and other occupations with potential exposure to PAH also showed risk of excess prostate cancer [3].
  • Urban air particulates (suspended particles and settling dusts), as well as dusts emitted by a Söderberg aluminium production plant and a coal-burning power plant, in the industrial town of Ajka were analysed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) content (liquid chromatography) and mutagenicity (Salmonella microsome test) [4].
  • This was due to the excess of deaths from ischaemic heart disease found among the men at the sulphite, sulphate, and paper mills, maintenance department, and power plant, but not at the sawmill [5].
 

High impact information on Power Plants

  • Selenocyanate (SeCN(-)) is a major contaminant in the effluents from some oil refineries, power plants, and in mine drainage water [6].
  • We reviewed histopathologically 19 cases of childhood thyroid cancer occurring between 1991 and 1994 among 14,396 screening subjects in Gomel, Republic of Belarus, the region most severely radio-contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in 1986 [7].
  • To assess the arsenic exposure of a population living in the vicinity of a coal-burning power plant with high arsenic emission in the Prievidza District, Slovakia, 548 spot urine samples were speciated for inorganic As (Asinorg), monomethylarsonic acid (MMA), dimethylarsinic acid (DMA), and their sum (Assum) [8].
  • We used the CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion model to determine the primary and secondary fine-particulate-matter (< 2.5 micro m in aerodynamic diameter) concentration reductions associated with the hypothetical application of "Best Available Control Technology" to the selected power plants [9].
  • Solid-tumor mortality in the vicinity of uranium cycle facilities and nuclear power plants in Spain [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Power Plants

  • A study was conducted to document patterns of accumulation and toxicity of selenium to organisms in a power plant cooling reservoir in North Carolina. Selenium entered the reservoir by way of effluent from the coal ash disposal basin, which contained 100-200 micrograms Se/liter [11].
 

Biological context of Power Plants

  • The Pearl River Delta is a major manufacturing region on the south coast of China that produces more than dollar 100 billion of goods annually for export to North America, Europe, and other parts of Asia. Considerable air pollution is caused by the manufacturing industries themselves and by the power plants, trucks, and ships that support them [12].
  • RESULTS: Endotoxin and glucan exposure levels were relatively low and comparable for waste collection and transferral, green waste composting and use of biomass in power plants [13].
  • In an attempt to reduce the threat of global warming, it has been proposed that the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations be reduced by the ocean disposal of CO2 from the flue gases of fossil fuel-fired power plants [14].
  • A novel technique that can be used for reacting toxic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants and other combustion wastes with sea water is described [15].
  • Calculations of Committed Effective Dose Equivalent (CEDE) due to inhalation using four of the five methods suggested in the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulatory Guide 8.34 (1992a) were performed to determine if any significant differences in the calculated value of the CEDE exist for typical power plant radionuclides [16].
 

Anatomical context of Power Plants

 

Associations of Power Plants with chemical compounds

  • The results were used to examine the following: overall mass balances, relative distribution of these elements in the coal-fired power plant; As, Hg, and Se concentrations in coal and combustion residues; and predominant oxidation state for Hg in flue gas [20].
  • We hypothesized that ROFA collected at different sites within an oil burning power plant, by virtue of its differing metal and sulfate composition, will induce differential lung injury [21].
  • A technical, economic, and environmental assessment of amine-based CO2 capture technology for power plant greenhouse gas control [22].
  • All nuclear power plants should have a program in operation for stockpiling potassium iodide for distribution within 1-2 days after an accident [23].
  • Ten ROFA samples collected at various sites within a power plant were analyzed for water- and 1.0 M HCl-leachable arsenic (As), beryllium (Be), cadmium (Cd), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), vanadium (V), zinc (Zn), and sulfur by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy [21].
 

Gene context of Power Plants

  • The hospital workers showed higher frequency of the GPA NO variant than nuclear power plant workers [24].
  • A coal-fired power plant, owned and operated by the AES Corporation, draws five million gallons per day of process water from nearby sources thus avoiding freshwater withdrawals and, through steam sales, significantly reduces emissions from a nearby refinery [25].
  • This study was conducted to determine the utility of deletion spectrum and mutant frequency (MF) of the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase gene (HPRT) as indicators of radiation exposure in Russian Liquidators who served in 1986 or 1987 in the clean up effort following the nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl [26].
  • Environmental prospection for PCDD/PCDF, PAH, PCB and heavy metals around the incinerator power plant of Reggio Emilia town (Northern Italy) and surrounding main roads [27].
  • Spatial patterns of sulphate and ammonia reflect inputs from power plants and agriculture in pine stands of the Nature Park Dübener Heide [28].

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  14. The inhibition of marine nitrification by ocean disposal of carbon dioxide. Huesemann, M.H., Skillman, A.D., Crecelius, E.A. Mar. Pollut. Bull. (2002) [Pubmed]
  15. A multi-purpose system for water purification and sea-water softening. Barsky, L., Rubinstein, J., Barsky, S., Kirzhner, F., Bodul, O. Reviews on environmental health. (1998) [Pubmed]
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  23. Epidemiology and primary prevention of thyroid cancer. Nagataki, S., Nyström, E. Thyroid (2002) [Pubmed]
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