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Central Europe fuels demands for European nuclear revival Prague (AFP) May 27, 2008 
Central European countries are fuelling a nuclear power revival as they face soaring energy prices, closure of old Soviet reactors, fears over meeting EU climate change targets and dependency on Russian gas. Czech, Slovak and Lithuanian premiers hammered home the call for nuclear power to be at the centre of European Union energy policy at a recent two-day nuclear forum as their booming eco ... read more
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Japan's Westinghouse signs deal to build 2 US nuclear reactors
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008The Westinghouse Electric Company, a US subsidiary of Japanese firm Toshiba Corporation, said Tuesday it had signed a deal to build two nuclear power reactors in the US state of South Carolina. Westinghouse said it had signed the nuclear plant deal with South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G) and Santee Cooper, a South Carolina state-owned electric and water utility. It did not disclos ... more Nuclear energy best option for Gulf states: experts 
Dubai (AFP) May 27, 2008Nuclear power rather than renewable sources like the wind or sun are the best option for oil-rich Gulf Arab states to meet growing energy demands, especially if produced collectively, say regional experts. "Renewable energies are (playing) only a very small part in supplying even those who started (developing them) a long time ago," Saudi Electricity Company president Ali Saleh al-Barrack to ... more Nuclear power the answer to high oil costs: French PM 
Paris (AFP) May 27, 2008French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told parliament on Tuesday that boosting France's nuclear power sector was the answer to soaring oil costs. "We must continue to develop France's nuclear programme because that was the right reponse in 1970 and it remains the right response" to high energy costs, Fillon said. "We are not dealing with a crisis, we are dealing with a long-term increase ... more Protesters allow experts in to potential new Naples-area dump 
Naples, Italy (AFP) May 27, 2008Environmental experts on Tuesday began assessing a potential new dump site outside Naples that was the scene of violent protests as authorities grapple with the region's long-running waste disposal crisis. A dozen protesters were injured in clashes with police on Friday and Saturday outside the site in the northwest Chiaiano suburb, while three were arrested. Protesters who barricaded th ... more Naples officials sent illegal waste for dumping in Germany: probe 
Rome (AFP) May 27, 2008Rubbish from Naples was dumped illegally in Germany thanks to the collusion of Neapolitan officials with local companies, prosecutors said Tuesday. "Through a fraudulent mechanism, some of the waste was illegally buried in Germany in flagrant violation of EU rules," Naples prosecutors said in a statement. Members of the impoverished region's waste commission looked the other way as an of ... more |
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Argonne IL (SPX) May 27, 2008Scientists have spent 70 years trying to predict the properties of nuclei, but have had to settle for approximate models because computational techniques were not equal to the task. In the 1990s, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and elsewhere succeeded in breaking through the computational barrier to provide accurate predictions of light nucle ... more Aeronautics And Astronautics Department Celebrates 50 Years In Sea, Sky, Space 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Any institution that lasts 50 years would have its share of highs and lows, but those of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford have stretched from searching out long lost wreckage at the bottom of the ocean to investigating the rarefied heights of Einsteinian physics in orbit. Roughly 500 alumni, students, faculty and staff gathered during a recent weekend to swap thos ... more Swiss supercollider puts U.S. on sidelines 
Dallas (UPI) May 25, 2008 As the Swiss prepare to unveil a powerful particle accelerator, the United States finds itself in the "minor leagues" of particle physics, scientists say. There is still consternation among the scientific community over a decision by Congress 15 years ago to cut off funding for the proposed Superconducting Super Collider near Dallas, a decision that continues to have consequences for th ... more Understanding Autumn Rain Decline In South East Australia 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 27, 2008Fluctuations in sea-surface temperatures to the north of Australia and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns over the sub-tropical Indian Ocean have been identified as key factors leading to declining rainfalls in south-eastern Australia since 1950. According to a report from a CSIRO Wealth From Oceans Flagship study - published this week in the science journal Geophysical Research ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2008Michael Pollan's recent bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma revealed to millions of readers the centrality, and dangers, of commodity corn in the modern industrialized agriculture system as developed in the United States. The "modern varieties" of corn, which are low in diversity, are now taking over the very birthplace of the crop, Southern Mexico, where it is known as maize. In their ... more Oregano Oil Works As Well As Synthetic Insecticides To Tackle Common Beetle Pest 
Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2008New research in the Society of Chemical Industry's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that oregano oil works as well as synthetic insecticides to combat infestation by a common beetle, Rhizoppertha dominica, found in stored cereals. Not only does oregano oil work as well as synthetic versions but it has none of the associated side effects of synthetic insecticides on the ... more G8 ministers pledge 'strong will' on climate amid doubts 
Kobe, Japan (AFP) May 26, 2008Environment ministers from the world's top industrial powers called Monday for more effort to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but little headway was seen in setting more immediate goals. Ministers from the Group of Eight held three days of talks here in a bid to set the tone for a summit involving the G8 leaders, which opens July 7 in the northern Japanese resort of Toyako and is exp ... more China authorities to probe school collapse after quake: report 
Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2008Authorities in China have promised to investigate the collapse of a school in a quake-hit area that left more than 1,300 children and teachers dead or missing, state media reported Monday. The news comes after the government has vowed to punish anyone responsible for substandard construction standards at schools, amid fury over the large number of children killed in collapsed school building ... more
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