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 Tokyo (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 
Two years after it shut down following an earthquake, the world's largest nuclear station has won approval from the Japanese government to commercially operate one of its seven reactors. Since May 9 Tokyo Electric Power Co., Asia's largest utility, has been carrying out a test run on Japan's Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant's unit 7 reactor. On Tuesday the governor of Niigata prefecture ... read more 
Berlin (AFP) July 23, 2009The race to take over General Motors Opel unit was reduced to a head-to-head duel on Thursday after GM jettisoned an offer from China's BAIC, leaving just Magna and RHJ International standing. "We have agreed to continue detailed talks with both Magna and RHJI to secure Opel's future," John Smith, GM's chief negotiator for the sale of Opel, said in a statement, citing "a good and thoughtful ... more
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Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2009Little-known Chinese machinery maker Tengzhong has filed to Chinese regulators its application for buying the Hummer brand from troubled General Motors, state media said Thursday. Tengzhong, based in southwest China's Sichuan province, submitted the bid last week to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency, the China Daily said. ... more  
London (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 In Europe, as in most parts of the world, "green" is good, but what that means in practice is harder to define. In Europe, government leaders vie with opposition politicians, who want to take over their ministerial chairs, each claiming that they are truly the greenest leaf in the political forest, regardless of the color -- blue, yellow, red, black or even green -- their party paints ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 23, 2009Engineering groups Alstom and Schneider said on Thursday they might launch a joint bid for the Transmission and Distribution business being sold by Areva, France's state-controlled nuclear power giant. "Schneider Electric and Alstom envisage submitting a joint offer" for the T&D operations, the two companies said in a statement. Ultimately, Alstom could end up with the transmission ... more  
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Flometrics has successfully flown a liquid fueled rocket with a renewable version of JP-8. and liquid oxygen. The fuel was developed by the EERC under a DARPA contact. The fuel was supplied by Bob Allen of the Fuels and Energy branch of the Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force base. The 180 lb rocket was a 20 ft tall, 1 ft diameter and it was powered by a RocketDyne ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 23, 2009The United States will press China in high-level talks next week to reduce its dependence on exports as a source of economic growth, US officials said Thursday. President Barack Obama's administration will tell top-level Chinese officials at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington that the role of consumption as a major driver of the US economy is diminishing. "There's been a ... more  
London (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 As tensions between Iran and the lower Gulf of Arab states raise security concerns, major defense and telecommunications manufacturers from the Western hemisphere and Europe are pitching for new sales prospects in the region, analysts said Thursday. The clearest indication of the concerted sales pitch comes in the impressive lineup of firms that have invested funds as sponsors of a ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2009China's Internet censors blocked news Thursday about a graft probe in Namibia involving a firm linked to the son of President Hu Jintao, as the state-run media ignored the sensitive issue. Two Namibians and a Chinese national were arrested last week in Namibia as part of a probe into bribery allegations involving Nuctech, a company headed until last year by Hu's 38-year-old son, Hu Haifeng. ... more 
Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 Brazilian company Vale S.A. and ThyssenKrupp Steel AG signed Thursday a memorandum of understanding that Vale will increase its stake in a new steel plant being built by ThyssenKrupp in Sepetiba Bay, 37 miles south of Rio de Janeiro. As part of the deal, Vale S.A. will raise its stake in ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderurgica do Atlantico Ltd. to 26.87 percent from its current 10 percent interest ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from "chicken feather meal," made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste that accumulate annually in the United States alone. Their study is scheduled for the next issue of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. ... more |
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