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First full post-disaster reactor restart in JapanTokyo (AFP) Aug 17, 2011 Japan on Wednesday approved the full resumption of commercial operations of an atomic reactor for the first time since the March 11 quake and tsunami sparked the Fukushima nuclear accident. Hokkaido Electric Power Co. restarted commercial operations at the Tomari plant's reactor number three, shortly after receiving the official go-ahead from the central government, a HEPCO spokesman told AFP. Almost three quarters of Japan's 54 reactors are now offline, mostly for regular safety checks, and man ... read more |
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  China's CITIC Securities plans Hong Kong share sale Citic Securities, China's biggest listed brokerage, is planning to raise about US$1.5 billion in a Hong Kong share sale with a flotation of its shares as early as September, a report said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  US credit crisis shocks Chinese consumers Spurred on by state media which have let rip at the "debt-riddled" United States, the Chinese have listened with wide-eyed amazement to tales of American people living well beyond their means. ... more | .. |
  China lawyer sues oil giants over spill: report A Chinese lawyer is suing a state-owned energy giant and its US partner over a huge oil spill off China's northeast coast, amid public anger over the resulting pollution, state media said Wednesday. ... 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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  Energy storage reduces solar shelf life Storing power is complicated and expensive, but very often, especially far away from the regular power grids, there is no way around large batteries for grid-independent electricity consumers. It wo ... more | .. |
 WA solar must be given new life The WA solar industry has been dealt an unexpected blow by the Barnett Government with the sudden closure of their feed-in-tariff. "The Clean Energy Council is disappointed by this decision. W ... more | .. |
 Zerbst PV Park opens GETEC green energy AG will jointly realise a 46 MWp solar plant. GETEC AG is the lessor of the complete land and GETEC green energy AG is the investor of the first section of the solar park, namely ... more | .. |
 MIT researchers reveal improved energy storage MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could potentially pack several times m ... more |
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First wildfire images reveal FireSat's unmatched detection capabilities
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
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 CIS cluster tool project for thin film PV The "CIS Cluster Tool" project is starting its work on the development of new manufacturing procedures for copper indium selenide-based thin film semiconductors (CIS) as part of a sponsoring project ... more | .. |
 Britain: The struggle begins Britain is sweeping up the physical debris from days of rioting that rocked the country earlier this month but the new Battle of Britain has just begun. ... more | .. |
 Biden heads to China under debt cloud Vice President Joe Biden headed Tuesday to China under the cloud of criticism over the US debt as he seeks to build a rapport with the rising Asian power's enigmatic next leader. ... more | .. |
 Sri Lanka signs $500 million port deal with China Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced it had clinched its largest ever single foreign investment deal by signing a $500-million contract with a Chinese-led consortium to build a new container terminal. ... more |
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  Bilayer graphene: Another step toward graphene electronics The Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov have taken a huge step forward in studying the wonder material graphene and revealing its exciting electronic p ... more | .. |
 Status of nuclear power 2010 Riso DTU has made its eighth report in the series: 'Nuclear power and Nuclear Safety', which gives a global overview of nuclear energy with a focus on safety and preparedness. This year's report is ... more | .. |
  Shooting light a curve Zhang, a principal investigator with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and director of the University of California at Berkeley's Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (SINAM), is the c ... more | .. |
 New tool may yield smaller and faster optoelectronics The steady improvement in speed and power of modern electronics may soon hit the brakes unless new ways are found to pack more structures into microscopic spaces. Unfortunately, engineers are alread ... more |
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China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce
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 Catalyst that makes hydrogen gas breaks speed record Looking to nature for their muse, researchers have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas. The synthetic material works 10 times faster tha ... more | .. |
 Bright light for fuel cell market A U.S. market research company says the military fuel cell market is expected to grow to a $1.2 billion industry segment by 2017. ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: And if China slows ... Nobody really knows whether Europe and the United States are heading for a double-dip recession, stagflation or a currency collapse. But it is a safe bet that neither will be contributing much to global growth over the next few years, so China's future is going to be pivotal for us all. ... more | .. |
  ACS Group sells Spain wind farm portfolio Spanish construction and renewable energy giant ACS Group says it has sold a chunk of its wind energy business to a private equity firm for $850 million. ... more |
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 Amazon Indians protest Bolivia road project Hundreds of Amazon Indians protested Monday against a road project cutting through a nature preserve, arguing it shows that President Evo Morales has a double standard on the environment and native rights. ... more | .. |
 North Sea oil leak reduced to two barrels a day: Shell Shell said Tuesday that two barrels of oil per day were still spilling into the North Sea from its Gannet Alpha platform through a second leak, despite having brought most of it under control. ... more | .. |
 China's foreign direct investment up 19.8% in July Foreign direct investment in China rose 19.83 percent in July year on year, data showed Tuesday, with analysts saying robust growth and expectations of a stronger currency attracted overseas investors. ... more |
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BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
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 Kuwait, Iraq hold talks over controversial port An Iraqi technical delegation has held talks in Kuwait over a seaport Baghdad claims would strangle its narrow shipping lanes in the Gulf, the Kuwaiti foreign ministry said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Kuwait ups security at disputed port ahead of Iraq talks Kuwait has beefed up security around a controversial port project ahead of a visit by an Iraqi delegation for talks, a security official was quoted as saying Sunday. ... more | .. |
Indonesia must end military spying in Papua: HRW Leaked military documents show Indonesia is engaged in a vast illegal surveillance operation against ordinary people in the restive eastern region of Papua, Human Rights Watch said Monday. ... more | .. |
 China coal mine blast kills 10: official Ten people were killed by an explosion in a coal mine in southwest China, a local official said Monday, in the latest in a series of fatal accidents to plague the industry. ... more |
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 World's biggest solar boat docks in Hong Kong There is "huge potential" to use alternative energy in the shipping industry, the man behind the world's biggest solar boat said on Monday as it arrived in Hong Kong as part of a global voyage. ... more | .. |
Oil higher in Asian trade Oil prices were higher in Asian trade Monday, lifted by buoyancy in regional stock markets, but analysts said the spectre of another global recession was expected to limit gains. ... more | .. |
China says local government debt 'controllable' China said Monday that risks from its local government borrowings were "controllable," amid fears that bad loans could derail the world's second-largest economy. ... more | .. |
  Putin opens giant anti-flood dam in Saint Petersburg Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday inaugurated a 25-kilometre-long dam aimed at protecting Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg from the threat of floods. ... more |
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