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US approves first nuclear plant in decadesWashington (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 The US approved its first new nuclear power reactors in decades on Thursday, despite objections from the country's top regulator that safety issues raised by last year's Fukushima meltdown were not fully addressed. Commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve the construction of two 1,100 megawatt Westinghouse-Toshiba AP1000 at power generator Southern Co.'s existing nuclear facility in Vogtle, Georgia. The dissenter was the NRC chairman, Gregory Jaczko, who argued for ... read more |
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  More environmental rules needed for shale gas In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. He echoed the recommendations for safe extraction m ... more | .. |
  Driving the green A company looking to purchase an electric-powered delivery truck today will likely experience some sticker shock: Such a vehicle costs nearly $150,000, compared to about $50,000 for the same kind of ... more | .. |
  New tool for analyzing solar-cell materials As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, MIT News examines manufacturing's role in the country's economic future through this series on work at the ... 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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  China says exports, imports fall in January China's trade activity fell in January from a year earlier, data showed Friday, as a domestic slowdown, overseas turmoil and factory closures during the Lunar New Year holiday hit demand. ... more | .. |
 French reactor down as cold snap drives power demand A French nuclear reactor has gone into an unscheduled shutdown, state energy giant EDF said on Friday, placing fresh pressure on a national power grid already strained by freezing temperatures. ... more | .. |
  Ailing Kodak shutters its camera operations Eastman Kodak, whose cheap Brownie camera brought photography to the masses a century ago, said Thursday it would stop producing cameras altogether as its struggles through bankruptcy. ... more | .. |
 Israel boosts naval forces in gas fields The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming a naval force to protect its rich offshore gas fields against terrorist attack. ... more |
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India
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 Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed room and for an ... more | .. |
 Turkey: Gas flows from Azerbaijan resume A technical glitch that all but halted natural gas flows from Azerbaijan and Iran into Turkey this week has been fixed, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz says. ... more | .. |
  Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressur ... more | .. |
 An electronic green thumb If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensur ... more |
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 Engineering research improves laser detectors and batteries Think of it as cooking with carbon spaghetti: A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes - ultrasmall tubes that look like pieces of spaghet ... more | .. |
 Graphene electronics moves into a third dimension In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened a third dimension in graphene resear ... more | .. |
 25 hybrid buses for Goteborg Volvo has now sold a total of 100 buses powered by hybrid technology in the Nordic countries. The latest order to be received by Volvo Buses is for 25 hybrid buses for Goteborgs Sparvagar (Gothenbur ... more | .. |
 China authorities demand nuclear plant halt Authorities in eastern China have demanded that construction on a nuclear power station be stopped immediately, saying residents in the quake-prone area are in danger, state media reported Thursday. ... more |
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Chinese researchers craft high fidelity Mars soil simulant to support future missions
Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought
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 US urges Bulgaria to diversify energy supply The United States increased pressure on Bulgaria Thursday to diversify its energy sector during a visit here of US special envoy for Eurasian energy Richard Morningstar. ... more | .. |
 Sarkozy vows to keep oldest nuclear plant running French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Thursday to keep France's oldest nuclear power plant at Fessenheim running and slammed his Socialist opponent for promising to close it. ... more | .. |
 Crystalline materials enable high-speed electronic function in optical fibers Scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Penn State University have, for the first time, embedded the high level of performance normally associated with chip-based semicond ... more | .. |
 Samsung can continue selling Galaxy tabs in Germany: court South Korea's Samsung Electronics can continue to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in Germany, a German court ruled Thursday, rejecting a bid by arch-rival Apple to have them banned. ... more |
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 New methodology assesses risk of scarce metals Yale researchers have developed a methodology for governments and corporations to determine the availability of critical metals, according to a paper in Environmental Science and Technology. I ... more | .. |
 India should scale up green technologies India should now have an aggressive clean energy solution policy, scaling up development of green technologies for its energy security and export these to developing countries in Africa and Latin Am ... more | .. |
  Stanford engineers weld nanowires with light One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires. Promising exceptional electrical throughput, low cost and easy processing, ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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 Reducing ion exchange particles to nano-size shows big potential Sometimes bigger isn't better. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have successfully shown that they can replace useful little particles of monosodium t ... more | .. |
 A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside - this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surf ... more | .. |
 Scientists 'record' magnetic breakthrough An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive te ... more | .. |
Materials developed for first optical fibers with high-speed electronic function For the first time, a group of chemists, physicists, and engineers has developed crystalline materials that allow an optical fiber to have integrated, high-speed electronic functions. The potential ... more |
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 Nanorod-Assembled Order Affects Diffusion Rate and Direction Some of the recent advancements in nanotechnology depend critically on how nanoparticles move and diffuse on a surface or in a fluid under non-ideal to extreme conditions. Georgia Tech has a team of ... more | .. |
  FBI releases background check file on Steve Jobs The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday released a 191-page file on Steve Jobs that paints an occasionally unflattering portrait of the late Apple founder. ... more | .. |
  Intel to pay $6.5 million, ending anti-trust suit Intel said Thursday it has agreed to pay $6.5 million as part of an agreement ending an antitrust suit brought against the US computer chip giant by the New York state attorney general. ... more | .. |
 A new system of stereo cameras detects pedestrians from within the car A team of German researchers, with the help of a lecturer at the University of Alcala (UAH, Spain), has developed a system that locates pedestrians in front of the vehicle using artificial vision. S ... more |
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