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Oldest US nuclear reactor 'disaster waiting to happen'Lacey, New Jersey (AFP) March 23, 2011 A sleepy New Jersey town has come onto people's radar screens because it has the oldest running nuclear power plant in the United States - and some say the most dangerous. Named for a Revolutionary War general, Lacey, New Jersey is the kind of American town that few from outside the seaside settlement knew much about before the earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered a nuclear crisis. Down the road from the 1950s-style diner and across from the bridge that locals use as a fishing pier stands ... read more |
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 Radioactive German election looms for Merkel Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has ruled Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1953, but the political fallout in Germany from Japan's nuclear crisis could spell the end in a key state election Sunday. ... more | .. |
 US launches review of nuclear plant safety The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday it was launching a two-pronged review of US nuclear power plant safety amid the crisis at a Japanese complex hit by an earthquake and tsunami. ... more | .. |
  Earth Hour aims for hope in darkened world Lights will go out around the world Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign, which this year will also mark Japan's earthquake and tsunami. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  'Seeding' The Next Gen Of Smart Materials Scientists at CSIRO have developed a simple but effective technique for growing and adding value to an exciting new group of smart materials which could be used in areas such as optical sensing and ... more | .. |
 Saving Electricity In A Hurry-Tokyo Has Done It Before And Can Do It Again Not long ago, Japan faced a major power crisis. In September 2002, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was forced to shut down 17 nuclear power plants for emergency safety inspections. Th ... more | .. |
  GL Garrad Hassan Helping To Realize Largest US Wind Farm Development GL Garrad Hassan is providing independent engineering services in relation to the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Gilliam and Morrow Counties, Oregon. Experts from the international renewable energy con ... more | .. |
  Upgrading The Vanadium Redox Battery Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery's use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its high cost. Bu ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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 Solar Greenhouses: China's Winning Solution To Global Energy Crisis Solar greenhouses have played a vital role in China's agricultural scene for years. New innovations in greenhouse design are allowing growers to produce more varieties of vegetables, even during lon ... more | .. |
  Hawaiian Electric And SunPower Sign Solar Power Agreement Hawaiian Electric Company and SunPower has announced an agreement for SunPower to sell solar photovoltaic (PV) power to the utility under a fixed price contract for 20 years. The power will be gener ... more | .. |
 New Solar Installation On Roof Of World Suntech Power Holdings has announced it will develop a 10MW solar installation on the roof of the world that will generate decades of clean electricity for thousands of residents of the Tibetan Plat ... more | .. |
 Nevada Officials And Sempra Generation Dedicate Largest US PV Plant Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler, Jeff Martin, president and chief executive officer of Sempra Generation, and other dignitaries were on hand in southern Nevada to off ... more |
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 Largest CPV Plant In Latin America To Feature New Skyline Solar X14 System Skyline Solar has introduced the Skyline X14 System and announced that it has been selected for a 500-kilowatt (kW) concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) plant to be built in Durango, Mexico. DelSol Syste ... more | .. |
  Toyota 'likely' to slow US production Toyota on Wednesday said it was likely to slow production at some US plants due to a shortage of parts from quake-hit Japan. ... more | .. |
 United Solar Awarded Patent For Proprietary Nano-Crystalline Tech United Solar has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent 7,902,049, "Method for depositing high-quality microcrystalline semiconductor materials" to Subhendu ... more | .. |
 Wind, solar becoming cost competitive: Chu Clean sources of energy such as wind and solar will be no more expensive than oil and gas projects by the end of the decade, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday. ... more |
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Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
SES Secures 5 Year Army Contract for Global Tactical Satellite Communications
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 Algerian energy industry runs out of steam Algeria's energy industry, backbone of the country's economy, is in trouble as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika struggles to avert a popular uprising while locked in a power struggle with the military. ... more | .. |
 India to build floating solar plant India's private energy giant Tata Power has joined with Australia's Sunengy Pty Limited for a $1 million pilot project to build a solar-powered electricity generation plant that will float on water, the companies announced. ... more | .. |
 Germans give South Stream major boost The Russian-led South Stream pipeline project has been given a significant boost when it was joined by Wintershall, the oil and gas arm of German chemicals giant BASF. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Broken and broken The U.S. government is both broke and broken. Broke and broken are incestuously intertwined. The broke part is manifested in our inability to reconcile massive debts and deficits that, unchecked, will bankrupt the nation. The broken part is our system of governance that no longer works. ... more |
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Tokyo water unsafe for babies, food bans imposed Tokyo warned Wednesday that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water after Japan's massive earthquake crippled a nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
  Bosch wants to hire 24,000 workers in China German auto parts and appliance maker Bosch wants to nearly double the number of staff in China to around 50,000 by 2015, it said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Sooner Germany abandons nuclear power, the better: Merkel Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that the sooner Germany abandoned nuclear power the better, but stressed the energy source was still needed as a stopgap technology for Europe's biggest economy. ... more | .. |
 Warren Buffett says global recovery taking hold US billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Wednesday that the global economic recovery is steadily taking hold, even if is not as fast as people would like. ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
US government gets a year of ChatGPT Enterprise for $1
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 Stuck pipe behind BP oil spill: study A stuck pipe was to blame for last year's worst-ever oil spill as it impeded a system in place on the BP well to prevent pollution into the Gulf of Mexico, a study said. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear to stay, says EU despite battle over safety testing Nuclear energy is here to stay so European Union leaders need to spell out clearly how to revamp safety guidelines at a key summit, the bloc's energy commissioner said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Groups protest Kenya biofuel project Environmental goups Wednesday protested an expansive project to grow jatropha in Kenya for biofuels, arguing that such production would emit more carbon than fossil fuels. ... more | .. |
China's CNOOC 2010 profit soars on oil price rise CNOOC Ltd, China's biggest offshore oil and gas producer, said Wednesday its 2010 net profit surged 84.5 percent on higher oil prices as demand increased with the global economic recovery. ... more |
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 Radiation in Tokyo tap water 'unsafe for infants' Radioactive iodine that exceeds the level considered safe for infants has been detected in Tokyo's tap water, a city official said Wednesday, advising parents not to give it to their babies. ... more | .. |
  Russian Chernobyl drama echoes Japan fears A new drama film set in Chernobyl opens in Russian cinemas this week, recalling the trauma of the world's worst nuclear accident just ahead of the the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe. ... more | .. |
 Japan banks in 2 trillion yen TEPCO finance plan Japanese banks and trust groups will provide around 2 trillion yen ($24.6 billion) to troubled Tokyo Electric Power this month to help cover costs for repairing its power plants, reports said. ... more | .. |
 China could overtake US economy by 2030: WBank China could overtake the United States as the world's largest economy if it maintains annual growth of eight percent over the next 20 years, the World Bank's chief economist said Wednesday. ... more |
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