MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee center that has portable power generators, pressurized water pumps and other heavy-duty equipment that could be delivered to nuclear plants hit by a natural disaster or other extreme event, such as the tsunami in Japan, officially opened during a ceremony Friday.

Officials with nuclear power companies, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority attended the ribbon-cutting at the Memphis Regional Response Center.

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