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AREVA and Northrop Grumman Announce Plans to Provide Cybersecurity Support to U.S. Nuclear FacilitiesMcLean VA (SPX) Jul 25, 2012 AREVA Inc. and Northrop Grumman have joined forces to provide cybersecurity protection support for the nuclear industry. The alliance is in response to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's call for commercial nuclear facilities to develop and implement cybersecurity plans. Northrop Grumman's industry-leading cybersecurity capabilities, in concert with AREVA's extensive regulatory experience and decades of serving the nuclear power industry, will help plant operators meet their regulatory obligation ... read more |
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  Strategies to improve renewable energy feedstocks To enable greater reliance on renewable biomass resources for power generation, combination approaches such as co-firing of high percentages of biomass with coal offer unique advantages, but also si ... more | .. |
  Global CO2 emissions continue to increase Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) - the main cause of global warming - increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tonnes in 2011. In China, the world's most populous c ... more | .. |
  Stone Age tools help to streamline modern manufacturing Innovative research published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Bradford uses laser microscopes to explore how stone tools were used in prehistory, and the process has ... 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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  UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to ... more | .. |
  Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought The amount of structural damage that radiation causes in electronic materials at the atomic level may be at least ten times greater than previously thought. That is the surprising result of a ... more | .. |
 Opportunity after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Japan's energy policy is now at its most critical juncture since the inception of nuclear power in 1966. Nearly 16 months after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - the worl ... more | .. |
  BSU starts second phase of largest geothermal system in U.S. In the shadow of two outdated smokestacks and four antiquated coal-fired boilers, Ball State has started the second and final phase of converting the university to a geothermal ground-source heat pu ... more |
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Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland
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 DuPont Addresses Patent Protection at Solarbuzz China Conference DuPont Electronics and Communications Managing Director for Greater China, Walt Cheng, was a featured speaker at the Solarbuzz China Photovoltaics (PV) Conference in Shanghai. In addressing the impo ... more | .. |
  Vietnam, Philippines slam China garrison plan Vietnam and the Philippines on Tuesday lashed out at China's moves to establish a military garrison in the South China Sea, amid escalating tensions in the disputed waters. ... more | .. |
 Apple wants billions from Samsung in patent fight Apple told a US court Tuesday it will seek damages of more than $2.5 billion from Samsung in a patent infringement case accusing the South Korean firm of copying the iPhone and iPad maker. ... more | .. |
 Oil prices stage muted rebound on Chinese data World oil prices rebounded slightly Tuesday on encouraging Chinese manufacturing data. ... more |
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 Fire-damaged Turkey pipeline to be fixed 'in a week' A major pipeline running from Iraq to Turkey that was allegedly sabotaged in a fire on Friday should be back up and running in a week, Anatolia news agency reported. ... more | .. |
 Tablets to push US electronic sales above $200 bn US consumer electronic sales are expected to top $200 billion for the first time this year, propelled by strong growth in tablet computers, an industry group said Tuesday ... more | .. |
  EU hails Google's proposals in antitrust probe The EU hailed on Tuesday proposals that Google has made after regulators launched an anti-trust probe into whether the Internet search giant had abused its dominant market position. ... more | .. |
  EU regulators suspect worldwide cartel in CD, DVD drives The European Commission on Tuesday said it had sent a "statement of objections" to 13 firms suspected of taking part in a cartel for optical disk drives, used to read or write data on CDs and DVDs. ... more |
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PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
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  Outside View: The coming economic collapse The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of another recession. The bad news is that if it goes down again, there won't be much we can do to save ourselves. Like a weary heavyweight, if the economy hits the mat again, it's down for good. ... more | .. |
 China manufacturing data picks up in July: HSBC China's manufacturing activity contracted at its slowest pace in five months in July, an independent survey showed Tuesday, indicating that Beijing's easing measures were beginning to take effect. ... more | .. |
 Convoy taking Italian spent nuclear fuel to France: reports A rail convoy carrying highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from Italy to France set off from the northern Italian town of Saluggia overnight, Italian media reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Iraq bars Chevron over Kurdish oil contracts Iraq on Tuesday barred US energy giant Chevron from working in non-Kurdish parts of the country after it bought two exploration blocks in the autonomous Kurdish region against Baghdad's wishes. ... more |
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 Armed conflict possible in South China Sea: ICG Tensions over competing claims in the South China Sea could escalate into conflict, with an arms build-up among rival nations raising the temperature, an international think tank warned Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Megaupload boss raps Obama in musical protest Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom has launched an online song attacking US President Barack Obama and urging supporters not to vote for the US leader, who he accuses of trampling on Internet freedom. ... more | .. |
 Australia bank chief upbeat on China Australia's central bank chief on Tuesday played down fears of a significant slowdown in key trading partner China, describing it as "cyclical" in an upbeat assessment of the domestic economy. ... more | .. |
40 India nuclear plant workers contaminated: firm More than 40 workers at a nuclear power station in northern India have been exposed to tritium radiation in two separate leaks in the past five weeks, company managers said on Tuesday. ... more |
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BlackSky expands Gen-3 access to bolster Ukraine-focused intelligence operations
Maxar secures $205 million in multi-year deals to boost space capabilities across MEA
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 Colombian oil supplies hit by FARC attack Colombian oil supplies suffered renewed disruption after FARC armed rebels blew up a section an oil pipeline, military officials said. ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: The Spanish agony Europe's rescue of Spain was finely crafted to provide just enough money to keep the troubled banks afloat and able to buy just enough bonds to sustain their government's deficit. It was going to very tight but just about possible to keep the show on the road for the rest of the year. ... more | .. |
 Serbia: South Stream a top priority Serbia has placed the planned Russian-led South Stream gas pipeline among its highest national priorities, President Tomislav Nikolic says. ... more | .. |
 Stanford-SLAC team uses X-ray imaging to observe running batteries in action Most electric cars, from the Tesla Model S to the Nissan Leaf, run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries - a pricey technology that accounts for more than half of the vehicle's total cost. One promi ... more |
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 Frog calls inspire a new algorithm for wireless networks Males of the Japanese tree frog have learnt not to use their calls at the same time so that the females can distinguish between them. Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia have used ... more | .. |
 Brazil to build first algae-based biofuel plant The world's first industrial plant producing biofuels from seaweed will be built in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco in late 2013, the official in charge of the project said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Stanford researchers calculate global health impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may eventually cause anywhere from 15 to 1,300 deaths and from 24 to 2,500 cases of cancer, mostly in Japan, Stanford researchers have calcu ... more | .. |
 Calculations reveal fine line for hydrogen release from storage materials Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element on Earth, is a promising energy carrier for emerging clean energy technology. Hydrogen is the energy carrier that powers fuel cells in electric cars, ... more |
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