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World's biggest wind farm will be built near Fukushima nuclear power plant

Michael Allan McCrae | January 18, 2013 | 7:16 pm Energy Asia Coal Uranium 

Sixteen kilometres off the coast of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor, Japanese government officials plan to build a one-gigawatt wind farm. One-hundred and forty-three floating turbines will be tethered to the ocean floor. The turbines, which will stand 200-metres...

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