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India nuclear plant with French reactors gets green go-aheadNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 28, 2010 India on Sunday gave environmental clearance for a nuclear power plant to be built in collaboration with French firm Areva, days ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy's scheduled visit to New Delhi. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said the go-ahead for the Jaitapur plant in Maharashtra state, which will use nuclear reactors supplied by Areva, was granted with 35 conditions and safeguards. "From an environmental point of view, nuclear energy is a cleaner option than coal," Ramesh said in a press ... read more |
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 Areva's Finnish EPR reactor delayed again: Finnish group An EPR nuclear reactor being built in Finland by the French-German consortium Areva-Siemens has been delayed again and will not reach normal operating levels until second half 2013, Finnish electricity group TVO said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Africa lashes Europe on trade at summit eve Africa's leaders, frustrated after almost a decade of failed efforts to seal trade deals with Europe, are heading into a summit with the European Union next week ready to do battle, or walk out. ... more | .. |
 Fate of six-billion-dollar Indian steel plant in jeopardy The future of a proposed six-billion dollar steel plant in eastern India was in doubt Saturday after the government raised questions about environmental clearance given for the project. ... more | .. |
 Russia's nuclear concern 'out of control': watchdog Russia's Rosatom state nuclear energy enterprise is out of government control and facing a heightened risk of corruption, Transparency International said in a report released Friday. ... more |
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  Oil-rich south Sudan must weigh progress versus environment South Sudan officials are concerned at the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry and are promising a tough new line if the oil-rich region gains independence next year. ... more | .. |
 Iran says first nuclear plant begins operating Iran said Saturday its first atomic power plant built by Russia in Bushehr has begun operations, ahead of a new round of talks with Western powers over the country's controversial nuclear drive. ... more | .. |
  Copenhagen plans super highways ... for bikes Copenhagen, one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities, has begun turning its extensive network of cycle paths into bike highways in an effort to push more commuters to leave their cars at home. ... more | .. |
  Chicago Secures Solar Power International For 2013 Chicago has announced that it secured Solar Power International, the largest business-to-business solar energy conference and expo in North America, for 2013 at McCormick Place. This marks a critica ... more |
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  Developing Countries Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Help The Poor In the developing world, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen as being in conflict with alleviating poverty, since improving the standard of living is usually associated with increased en ... more | .. |
  A High-Yield Biomass Alternative To Petroleum For Industrial Chemicals A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including benzene, toluene, xylenes and o ... more | .. |
 Gene Find Could Lead To Better Biofuel Production Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine, a discovery that could lead to processes to control the amino acid ... more | .. |
 Minneapolis Convention Center Solar Array Completed Ahead Of Schedule The last of the 2,613 solar panels at the Minneapolis Convention Center are installed, and the system is fully running, ahead of schedule. The Minneapolis Convention Center's solar array is co ... more |
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  Magnetic Trapping Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Anti-Matter A clearer understanding of the Universe, its origins and maybe even its destiny is a significant step closer, thanks to new research. As part of a major international experiment called ALPHA, based ... more | .. |
  On The Way To Lead-Free Technology The change-over to lead-free products is in full progress. The problem is however that the environmentally friendly alternatives have to be as effi cient as the lead-containing variants. One example ... more | .. |
  Enhancing The Efficiency Of Wind Turbines A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new coal-fired power generation. The costs of ... more | .. |
  NERSC Supercomputing Center Breaks The Petaflops Barrier The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world's leading centers for scientific productivity, is now home to the fifth most powerfu ... more |
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 Boeing To Mass-Produce Industry's Most Efficient Terrestrial Solar Cell Boeing has announced that Spectrolab, a wholly owned subsidiary, has started mass production of its newest terrestrial solar cell, the C3MJ+. With an average conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, C ... more | .. |
 Extending The Life Of Oil Reserves A research team led by the University of Bristol has used STFC's ISIS Neutron Source to come up with a new way to treat carbon dioxide (CO2), so that it can be used in efficient and environmentally ... more | .. |
 Bonn Physicists Create A Super-Photon Physicists from the University of Bonn have developed a completely new source of light, a so-called Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of photons. Until recently, expert had thought this impossible ... more | .. |
  Short Light Pulses Will Enable Ultrafast Data Transfer Within Computer Chips Electrical engineers generated short, powerful light pulses on a chip - an important step toward the optical interconnects that will likely replace the copper wires that carry information between ch ... more |
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 Optimizing Large Wind Farms Wind farms around the world are large and getting larger. Arranging thousands of wind turbines across many miles of land requires new tools that can balance cost and efficiency to provide the most e ... more | .. |
 Methane-Powered Laptops May Be Closer Than You Think Making fuel cells practical and affordable will not happen overnight. It may, however, not take much longer. With advances in nanostructured devices, lower operating temperatures, and the use of an ... more | .. |
 Imaging With Neutrons Reveals Magnetic Domains In 3D So far, it has only been possible to image magnetic domains in 2 dimensions. Now, for the first time, Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have managed to create 3-dimensional images of these doma ... more | .. |
 LockMart Continues Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.4 million contract modification to advance the design for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot plant off the coa ... more |
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