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power station

noun

Electricity.
  1. a generating station.


power station

noun

  1. an electrical generating station
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of power station1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Once the last was removed, inspectors from the Office for Nuclear Regulation conducted checks before declaring the power station "nuclear free".

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There is also a large Chinese investment in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset.

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An environmental activist who halted a train bound for the UK's biggest power station has said she does not regret her actions after she walked free from court.

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Contaminated land is a site that might have been polluted from its previous use - it could have been a factory, power station, a railway line, landfill site, petrol station or dry cleaners.

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Critics of the power station have called it one of the UK's leading emitters of the climate warming gas CO2, but Drax disputes that description.

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