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China Moves Ahead With Project To Rival Three Gorges In Size
Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2006 China has kicked off construction of a giant dam on the upper parts of the Yangtze as part of a plan that will eventually rival the Three Gorges project in size, state media reported Monday. The 28.9-billion-yuan (3.7-billion-dollars) Xiangjiaba project, in southwest China's Sichuan province, will have six million kilowatt of installed capacity when completed in nine years, the China Daily said. When combined with the 12.6 million kilowatt Xiluodu project, started further downstream 11 months ago, it will be the equivalent of the 18.2 million kilowatt Three Gorges Project, the largest hydro project in China. "The project will have to face manifold challenges, including environmental protection and resettlement of residents," said Fan Qixiang, the vice-president of China Three Gorges Project Corp, the builder of the project. The company will earmark 1.46 billion yuan for environment protection, Fan added. Nearly 90,000 residents from six counties in Sichuan and the neighboring province of Yunnan will be forced to leave their homes because of the project, the report said.
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Complex Order Parameter In Ruthenate Superconductors Confirmed
Champaign IL (SPX) Nov 28, 2006Since it was discovered to be superconducting over a decade ago, the pairing symmetry of strontium ruthenium oxide has been widely explored and debated. Now, a team of researchers led by Dale Van Harlingen at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say the debate is over. "We have pretty unambiguous evidence for 'p-wave' symmetry with a complex order parameter that breaks time-reversal symmetry in this ruthenate superconductor," said Van Harlingen, a Willett Professor and head of the department of physics at Illinois. |
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