TXU to Cut Mercury at Coal, Nuclear Power Plants
Environment News Service, August, 2007
DALLAS, Texas (ENS) — --> TXU Power has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the amount of mercury at its Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, a two-unit nuclear power plant about 80 miles southwest of downtown Dallas, Texas, the company and the EPA announced Friday.
The nuclear plant's managers have pledged to complete mercury reduction measures at the facility, located near Glen Rose, Texas, as part of the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities program.
Comanche Peak will replace instruments that contain mercury with mercury-free alternative products.
Mercury is a toxic chemical designated as one of 31 priority chemicals that the EPA wants to reduce in U.S. products and wastes. Exposure to mercury can cause...
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