The US India Nuclear Deal Signals A New Big Power Relationship
Washington DC (UPI) July 25, 2007
It is a striking coincidence that the Indian and U.S. governments should have announced the successful conclusion of their long-stalled nuclear cooperation deal in the same week that India established its first overseas military base. India's new base, an electronic listening post and radar station on the island of Madagascar, is perfectly situated to monitor the international waterways around S ... read more
Thousands Of Atoms Swap Spins With Partners In Quantum Square Dance
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2007
Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have induced thousands of atoms trapped by laser beams to swap "spins" with partners simultaneously. The repeated exchanges, like a quantum version of swinging your partner in a square dance but lasting a total of just 10 milliseconds, might someday carry out logic operations in quantum computers, which ... more
Laser Sets Records In Power And Energy Efficiency
Evanston IL (SPX) Jul 27, 2007
The rise in global terrorism in recent years has brought significant attention to the needs for more advanced sensors and defense technologies to protect civilians and soldiers. Next-generation laser-based defense systems are now being designed for this need, including the use of infrared countermeasures to protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles and highly sensitive chemical detectors for r ... more
MIT Researchers Work Toward Spark-Free, Fuel-Efficient Engines
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2007
In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel-efficient and just as clean. The mode-switching capability could appear in production models within a few years, improving fuel economy by several miles per gallon ... more
France-Libya Nuclear Deal A Dangerous Step Warn Many
Paris (AFP) July 26, 2007
French green groups Thursday attacked plans to build a French reactor in Libya for water desalination as a perilous masquerade that would encourage Moamer Kadhafi to get a nuclear bomb. Sortir du Nucleaire (Get Out of Nuclear) said the official reason for the reactor was a "deception" as the civilian and military uses of nuclear technology were "indissociable."
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US Lawmakers Threatens To Block Indian Nuclear Deal
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2007
A bi-partisan group of lawmakers warned Wednesday that Congress could block a landmark US-India nuclear cooperation deal if it sidesteps safeguards to prevent military uses of the technology. The 23 legislators sent a letter to President George W. Bush saying the so-called "123" operating agreement, which reportedly allows India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, could end up violating US law.
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Australia Considers Selling Uranium To India
SUPERPOWERS
Is Russia One Of The Richest Countries
SUPERPOWERS
The Arctic Crisis Part 1
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More Flooding As England Battles Power Cuts And Water Shortages
Oxford, England (AFP) Jul 26, 2007
Further water surges were expected in southern England Wednesday as Britain's worst floods in 60 years saw evacuations, the threat of power cuts and a lack of fresh water for thousands. Tributaries feeding the River Thames engulfed several areas in the university city of Oxford overnight. Some 250 homes were evacuated and residents given emergency shelter at a nearby football stadium.
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New NASA AIRS Data To Aid Weather And Climate Research
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2007
There's an old saying, "You can't see the forest for the trees." When it comes to global climate change, it's not hard to spot the "trees" -- they're in the news headlines nearly every day. To see the "forest," however--that is, to gain a more complete understanding of the climate variations we're seeing--scientists use satellite remote sensing. With these technologies, they can directly measure ... more
Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment
New York NY (SPX) Jul 25, 2007
Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment. Ausubel has analyzed the amount of ener ... more
Asian Land Grabs Highlight Class Friction And Bureaucratic Failures
Trapeang Krasaing, Cambodia (AFP) July 24, 2007
Monsoon rains have brought new misery to the residents of this resettlement site outside the Cambodian capital. Already uprooted from their homes, the hundreds of families living here now have to contend with near daily downpours that flood their shacks with putrid water. "Living here is a misery," said Chan Bory, one of the thousands who authorities in Phnom Penh pushed from their homes in a ci ... more
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US Lawmakers Question Secretive US-India Nuclear Pact
SOLAR DAILY
DuPont To Lead 100 Million Dollar Federal Program To Advance Solar Cell Module Research
AEROSPACE
Steering Aircraft Clear Of Choppy Air
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Wanted: Wearable Power System, Batteries Included
Washington (AFNS) Jul 26, 2007
The Defense Department is offering $1 million to the person who invents a way for servicemembers to take a load off. During a conference call with Internet "bloggers" today, William Rees, deputy undersecretary of defense for laboratories and basic sciences, explained the department's "wearable power" competition announced earlier this month. Currently, an individual servicemember on the ground i ... more
Researcher Observes Molecular Chaos For The First Time
Waco TX (SPX) Jul 26, 2007
A Baylor University researcher has created the first experimental observation of molecular chaos, providing evidence that a widely accepted, yet unproven, assumption is indeed accurate. Molecular chaos is an assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated and independent of position. An example of molecular chaos is the air in any room. While the nitrogen and oxygen atoms ... more
Japan's Quake-Hit Nuke Plant Says Nothing To Hide
Tokyo (AFP) July 25, 2007
The operator of Japan's largest nuclear plant, which was damaged in a powerful earthquake, said Wednesday it had nothing to hide as UN inspectors prepared to visit. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team is set to arrive in Japan in the next few weeks to look at the sprawling Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). Asked to promise the co ... more
French Firm Could Build Shield Over Main Chernobyl Reactor
Kiev (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007
Ukraine could sign a contract with a French firm in September to build a giant protective shield over a damaged reactor in Chernobyl, the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the emergencies minister said Wednesday. "The Assembly of Chernobyl Shelter Fund Donors made a decision in London July 17 to give its approval to the contract to build the shelter with the Novarka concern, with a pr ... more
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Russia Puts Off Bushehr NPP Launch Until Fall 2008
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Three-Pronged Nuclear Attack
AEROSPACE
EAA AirVenture 2007
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