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• The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant was the world's first civilian nuclear power plant while Sellafield (pictured) was the world's first commercial nuclear power station?

• The Chinese energy company Fushun Mining Group operates the largest oil shale plant in the world consisting 220 Fushun-type retorts?

• Three of the four largest power stations in the world are in South America?

• Adriatic LNG is the world's first offshore gravity-based structure LNG regasification terminal?

• The Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center is the world's largest wind farm at 735.5 megawatt?

• Scotland has 85% of the United Kingdom's hydro-electric energy resource?

• The day when Exxon canceled its Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado is known by locals as "Black Sunday"?

• The Australian energy company Linc Energy is the first company in the world to produce synthetic fuel by combining underground coal gasification and gas-to-liquid technologies?