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No 'business as usual' on nuclear after Fukushima: IAEAVienna (AFP) April 4, 2011 The world cannot take a "business as usual" approach to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said Monday. Amano suggested however that not enough was learned from an earlier incident in Japan where another nuclear power plant was damaged in an earthquake smaller than the one that caused last month's disaster. "Thinking retrospectively, the measures taken by the operators as a safety measure (were) not sufficient to prevent this accident," Aman ... read more |
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  Japan dumps low-level radioactive water into sea Japan on Monday started to dump more than 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific as part of emergency operations to stabilise its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear Power Investment Must Not Be Delayed A low carbon nuclear future: Economic assessment of nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel management in the UK explores possible future scenarios to accelerate the delivery of a safe, holistic an ... more | .. |
  Using River Water And Salty Ocean Water To Generate Electricity Stanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity. Anywhere freshwater enters the sea, suc ... 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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  Vestas unveils new offshore turbine Denmark's Vestas, the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines, unveiled its new offshore turbine, aimed at meeting increased demand from offshore farms planned in Northern European waters. ... more | .. |
 First Practical Nanogenerator Produces Electricity With Pinch Of The Fingers After six years of intensive effort, scientists are reporting development of the first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip that can use body movements - a finger pinch now en route to ... more | .. |
 Waste Ash From Coal Could Save Billions In Repairing US Bridges And Roads Coating concrete destined to rebuild America's crumbling bridges and roadways with some of the millions of tons of ash left over from burning coal could extend the life of those structures by decade ... more | .. |
  Unirac Partners With Wise Power Systems On Breakthrough Solar Installation Unirac has announced that it has teamed with Wise Power Systems in a landmark 1.1MW solar installation featuring the Unirac ISYS Ground Mount (IGM) in a northern U.S. locale. In spite of the onslaug ... more |
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  Smarter Memory Device Holds Key To Greener Gadgets Fast, low-energy memory for MP3s, smartphones and cameras could become a reality thanks to a development by scientists. Researchers have created a tiny device that improves on existing forms of memo ... more | .. |
 JA Solar Announces Strategic Partnership With Jabil JA Solar Holdings has announced that it has entered into a two-year strategic partnership with Jabil Circuit. Under the partnership framework, JA Solar expects to supply Jabil with up to 400MW of so ... more | .. |
 UNI-SOLAR Powers Largest Solar Power Plant In French Riviera United Solar has announced that its UNI-SOLAR brand photovoltaics (PV) are powering the recently completed 570 kWp solar power plant atop the Nice Saint Isidore Eco-vallee Business Park in the city ... more | .. |
 SOLGLIDE Bearings Provide Solution For Solar Technologies Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, a global leader in supplying engineered components to international OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), have launched a maintenance-free bearing for the solar ... more |
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 Centrosolar Announces CentroLease Solar Financing With a rapidly growing customer and installer network across the country, Centrosolar America, the U.S. subsidiary of CENTROSOLAR Group AG in Munich Germany, announces the launch of the new CentroLe ... more | .. |
 US nuke reprocessing would benefit French firm: study US anti-nuclear groups Monday condemned a project to built a plant where plutonium from weapons would be reprocessed for use as fuel in nuclear power plants, saying the plan was costly, dangerous and would benefit mainly French group, Areva. ... more | .. |
 Paraguay, Uruguay pitch for oil bonanza Paraguay and Uruguay are making independent bids for investors to take more interest in recent exploration that each hopes will yield commercially viable quantities of oil and natural gas. ... more | .. |
  China's Minmetals eyes bid for Australian miner China's Minmetals Resources has said it would offer Can$6.3 billion ($6.5 billion) for copper miner Equinox Minerals, in what would be the biggest Chinese takeover of an Australian resources firm. ... 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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  Walker's World: Forget PIGS; hello FIBS The Germans are going to have to be very much more generous with the Irish, and probably with the French, the British and the Swedes as well. The demographic future of the 27-nation European Union depends on them. ... more | .. |
 Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor Computer chip maker Texas Instruments said Monday it would buy California rival National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in an all cash deal. ... more | .. |
  Toyota says some US shutdowns 'inevitable' Toyota said Monday that stopping some production in its US car plants was inevitable after Japan's earthquake and tsunami crippled the supply of parts. ... more | .. |
 Natural gas for U.S. vehicles? Natural gas has gotten a boost from U.S. President Barack Obama's energy speech this week. ... more |
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Nuclear industry has 'safe' record: GE boss The head of General Electric, the US manufacturer of reactors at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on Monday said the nuclear industry has had a "safe track record". ... more | .. |
 China's Minmetals eyes bid for Australian miner China's Minmetals Resources Monday said it will offer Can$6.3 billion ($6.5 billion) to buy copper-miner Equinox Minerals, in what would be the biggest Chinese takeover of an Australian resources firm. ... more | .. |
  Australia's Qantas to offload ageing Boeing 737s Australian carrier Qantas has decided to offload its ageing Boeing 737-400 planes, but the airline insisted Monday it was part of an overall fleet modernisation and not a "garage sale". ... more | .. |
Japan crisis fuels India nuclear safety concerns Japan's nuclear crisis has fuelled public unease in India over ambitious government plans to ramp up nuclear power capacity to feed the country's growing, energy-hungry economy. ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 Japan business confidence dives after quake: BoJ Japanese business confidence in the outlook for the next three months has plunged following the March 11 earthquake-tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, the Bank of Japan said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Japan uses colour dye to trace nuclear leak Emergency crew at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a colour dye Monday to trace the source of a radioactive leak as lower business confidence signalled the disaster's economic impact. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Issues First Latin American Study On Jatropha Sustainability Boeing has released research conducted by Yale University's School of Environmental Studies showing significant potential for sustainable aviation fuel based on jatropha-curcas, an oil-producing, no ... more | .. |
 Alstom Announces Commercial Operation Of First North American Wind Farms Alstom has announced the start of commercial operation of the Adams and Danielson wind farms in Meeker County, Minnesota (United States). The projects, which are the result of a contract worth appro ... more |
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 Better Performance And Flexibility For Solar Thermal Power Plants On 31 March 2011 the German Aerospace Center and Spanish utility company Endesa inaugurated a direct solar steam generation and energy storage pilot plant at Carboneras, located in southern Spain. I ... more | .. |
 Key Plant Traits Yield More Sugar For Biofuels New clues about plant structure are helping researchers from the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center narrow down a large collection of poplar tree candidates and identify winners for fut ... more | .. |
 Fast-Recharge, Lithium-Ion Battery Could Be Perfect For Electric Cars The next-generation battery, like next-generation TV, may be 3-D, scientists reported at the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). They described a new lithiu ... more | .. |
  Developing Commercial Hydrokinetic Energy Projects Hydro Alternative Energy has announced that in connection with its previously announced joint venture agreement with MRS Holdings Limited ("MRS") to develop hydrokinetic energy projects in the West ... more |
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