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Top Power Headlines
	MIT: Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis (Video) MIT presents a new design for nuclear plants built on floating platforms, modeled after those used for offshore oil drilling, that could provide enhanced safety, easier siting, and centralized construction Full Article Share:
	AREVA starts up molten salt energy storage demonstration plant (Video) AREVA has begun operations of its molten salt energy storage demonstration plant at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico Full Article Share:

Top Power News
• Four alarm fire shuts down Martin Drake power plant
• Rolls-Royce to sell energy gas turbine business to Siemens
• UK electricity reforms supporting 8,500 green jobs
• Renewable systems pilot for cannabis cultivation
• Reducing CO2 from power sector with no net cost to economy
• U.S. biomass-based diesel imports increase to record levels
• SunEdison completes 100 MW of solar power in the UK
• New material for flat semiconductors
• Vattenfall ends coal power CCS R&D
• New energy storage testing center promotes innovation
• Siemens signs multiple 10-year wind service contracts
• Toshiba to supply steam turbines for plant retrofit in Mexico
• AREVA, ATOX form Japanese nuclear decommissioning JV
• B&W, OSU awarded funding for clean coal technology development