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1 | 2 | 3 | NextTexas Legislature Advances Clean Power and Green Jobs, but Loses Steam in Political Wranglings 1 Citation Environmental Groups See Clean Energy Groundwork Laid for the Future (Austin) Senate and House members from both political parties showed unprecedented support for developing more renewable energy and energy efficiency in Texas by filing a large number of clean power, green jobs bills in the 81st Texas State Legislature. A number of major bills passed either the House or the Senate. Ultimately, political disagreements over other issues and over the size and extent of the programs delayed an, technorati.com
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Giant laser reactor aims to create nuclear fusion for first time 1 Citation Washington, May 30 (ANI): A giant laser reactor has been unveiled in California, US, which scientists hope will accomplish nuclear fusion, the Holy Grail of energy sources, which was once thought impossible. According to a report in Fox News, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will focus 192 laser beams on a hydrogen pellet the size of a bead, heating it to incredible temperatures in an attempt to recreate the power of the sun. Nuclear fusion would cr, technorati.com
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Italian Nuclear Waste Allowed in the United States 1 Citation A Salt Lake City-based company can import Italian nuclear waste for disposal in Utah, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Ted Stewart of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah Central Division ruled that EnergySolutions cannot be prohibited from bringing 1,600 tons of low-level radioactive waste, or LLRW, from Italy to the company?s facility , technorati.com
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Nuclear Mess and its Effects on Workers, Germany 1 Citation The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) announced they will take on a large operation to test radiation-exposure levels of both current and former workers at the atomic waste depot Asse near the town of Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony.?With this health monitoring programme, we want to find out if the cases of cancer and leukaemia , technorati.com
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1 Citation Southern Senator pushes for 100 nuclear reactors, technorati.com
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1 Citation President Obama announced today nominees for two related governmental posts: Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy; and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Warren F. "Pete" Miller, Jr., a part-time Professor at Texas A&M University, got the easier job. Managing the real radioactive waste went to David J. Kappos, who, as long-time corporate mook, has shaped IBM p, technorati.com
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Citizens Oppose Comanche Peak Expansion before Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1 Citation Oral Hearing Set for June 10th-11th in Granbury, TX Citizen opposition to more nuclear reactors in Texas continues. On June 10th-11th an oral hearing will be held before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on Citizens? petition to intervene in Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4. ?I have many grave concerns about building more nuclear reactors in Texas,? said Texas Representative Lon Burnam, District 90, Ft. Worth, one of the petitioners seeking, technorati.com
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We Don't Deserve The Planet We Are Living On 1 Citation Perhaps nothing speaks more clearly of our psychological remoteness from the ocean depths than the main expressed goals for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 was to study "the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes." This wasn't a secret assignment, you understand, but a proud public boast. In fact, although it wasn't much publicized, by 1957-58 the dumping of radioactive wastes had alrea, technorati.com
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Utah Court Allows Importation of Foreign Radioactive Waste 1 Citation On May 15, a federal district court in Utah ruled ( PDF ) that current law cannot prevent the importation and disposal of foreign-generated radioactive waste in the United States. The ruling brings a Utah-based company one step closer to importing 20,000 tons of Italian low-level radioactive waste, transporting it to Tennessee for reprocessing, and disposing of the waste in Utah. In January, Representatives Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), Jim Matheson (D-Utah), and Lee Terry (R-Neb.) introduced the Rad, technorati.com
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1 Citation His Majesty?s Government have? come to the conclusion that it is desirable that the whole of the Antarctic should ultimately be included within the British Empire. -Sir Leopold Amery, Colonial Secretary, 1920. When one thinks of Antarctica today one tends to picture smiling scientists in brightly colored North Face jackets photographing penguins and cataloguing ice cores. Gone are the days when the standard image was of those same scientists posing in front of national flags rarely, technorati.com
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