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* List of 279 new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Proposed Nuclear Plant in Idaho
KTVB (ID)

MOUNTAIN HOME - A Virginia based business wants to turn one-hundred acres of desert farm land into a nuclear power complex capable of powering the entire ...

* Proposed nuclear plant near Mountain Home
Fox 12 Boise (ID)

Mountain Home, Idaho -- The debate continues over whether or not to build a nuclear power plant outside Mountain Home. The land that has been suggested for ...

* Nuclear plant costs weigh down Xcel Energy profit
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) (MN)

Xcel Energy Inc., owner of utilities in Denver and Minneapolis, had lower-than-expected profit because of higher nuclear power-plant operating costs and ...

* Amid contractor's strike at nuclear plant, lawmakers eye ...
The Hill (DC)

Amid a strike by the contract security guards at the country's only nuclear-weapons assembly plant, House staffers are drafting legislation to federalize ...

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Power bill vote delayed
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (TX)

Amendments that Mr. King helped write would also exclude new nuclear plants and coal gasification plants from the 35 percent cap. ...

* Vote on Texas power market limits postponed
WFAA (subscription) (TX)

The legislation would exclude new nuclear plants and coal gasification plants from the 35 percent limit. Further, another amendment that Mr. King expects ...

* NRC, Indian Point officials to discuss performance
White Plains Journal News (NY)

Residents who want to watch and listen while federal regulators discuss Indian Point's safety performance with the nuclear plants' top executives will get ...

* Bulgarians,Romanians Protest against Belene NPP
Sofia News Agency (Bulgaria)

Bulgaria: The citizens from Bulgaria's town of Svishtov and Romania's Zimnich are to stage a Thursday protest against the construction of the nuclear plant ...

* Big nuclear refueling job is winding down
Houston Chronicle (TX)

But even the mundane may get closer scrutiny in the near future as the nation faces what may be a new wave of nuclear plant construction after more than a ...

* Business briefs
Chicago Daily Southtown (IL)

Electric utility operator Exelon Corp. said Wednesday its first-quarter profit jumped 73 percent, aided by fewer outage days at its nuclear plants and ...

* Taiwan power outage looms, some fear
International Herald Tribune (France)

Power production is failing to keep pace with demand because of a ban on new nuclear plants and delays in completing projects already under way, ...

* NRC approves work-hour limits for some plant workers
Patriot-News (PA)

Security workers and others in critical jobs at the nation's nuclear plants will no longer be allowed to log excessive overtime hours under new rules ...

* Business news in brief
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)

The company attributed the performance to higher profit margins, higher output from its nuclear plants, and cold winter weather in the Northeast, ...

* European Stocks May Advance on Earnings, Led by ABB, Siemens
Bloomberg)

Areva SA, the world's largest maker of nuclear power stations, acquired a 10.46 percent stake in Summit Resources Ltd., allowing it to prevent a full ...

* The formula for a perfect pint
Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand)

Kinderlehrer said new materials now under study are batteries that do not corrode and shrink-wrap metals that could be used to repair nuclear power plants ...

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President calls for revival of Chernobyl region
Irish Examiner (Ireland)

THE uninhabited and contaminated region around the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant must be put to use again, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ...

* Toshiba sales rise but chips, phones squeeze profits
Webwereld (Netherlands)

This year the results also include those of Westinghouse, the nuclear power station builder that Toshiba acquired during the fiscal year. ...

* US, Japan sign nuclear energy pact
United Press International)

WASHINGTON April 25 (UPI) -- The United States and Japan have signed a deal to move forward with an international plan to increase nuclear power without ...

* New Jersey AG Rabner Announces 3rd Circuit Court Challenge to NRC ...
All American Patriots (press release) (Sweden)

'On the one hand, the NRC has imposed extensive security requirements on nuclear power plants since 9/11 to guard against attacks. On the other hand, ...

* Taxing Yankee
Barre Montpelier Times Argus (VT)

Peter Shumlin has announced a plan to impose new taxes on Entergy Vermont, which owns Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, to pay for the program to improve ...

* Minneapolis initiates eco-friendly strategies
Minnesota Daily (MN)

The percentage of coal and natural gas/oil, however, increased slightly at the expense of nuclear power. Peterson said the Metro Emission Reduction Project, ...

* Major powers hint at compromise with Iran on enrichment
Journal of Turkish Weekly (Turkey)

Iran's ultimate stated goal is to run 50000 centrifuges a year, enough to churn out material for a network of nuclear power generators - or a full-scale ...

* NJ asks court's aid over Oyster Creek
Cherry Hill Courier Post (NJ)

New Jersey has asked a federal court to intervene in the relicensing review of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant. The state wants the court to require ...

* European Stocks Advance on Earnings Outlook, Led by ABB, Bayer
Bloomberg)

The world's largest maker of nuclear power stations acquired a 10.46 percent stake in Summit Resources Ltd., allowing it to prevent a takeover of the ...

* Areva acquires 10% of Australia's Summit
Financial Times (subscription) (UK)

Areva, a big marketer of uranium to nuclear power companies, said its latest move was in line with Summit's prior discussions with Areva. ...

* Media threatened with arrest at latest VY protest
Brattleboro Reformer (VT)

VERNON -- Chatting together as they stood chained at the entrance to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, seven protesters tallied the number of arrests ...

* State: NRC must factor in terrorism in nuke licenses
The Gloucester County Times (NJ)

TRENTON The state is appealing a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission not to consider the possibility of a terrorist attack on a nuclear power ...

* Exelon profit up 73 percent; ComEd unit sinks
Chicago Daily Herald (IL)

First-quarter net income at Chicago-based Exelon Corp., the largest US utility owner by market value, rose 73 percent as its group of nuclear power plants, ...

* Consulting the crystal ball
Rocky Mountain News (CO)

Gainers - Coal, nuclear power, mining, financial, stock exchanges. Decliners - Home builders, retail, automakers, auto-part suppliers. ...

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Funny, what colleges teach these days
Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA)

Some of his own work includes 'All-Atomic Comics' (about nuclear power) and 'Corporate Crime Comics.' In a recent lecture, Rifas discussed one of the most ...

* Temelin unhooks 1st unit on pump defect
Prague Daily Monitor (Czech Republic)

Ceske Budejovice, April 25 (CTK) - The Temelin nuclear power station unhooked its first unit from the grid after a defect on a cooling water pump today, ...

* Nuclear power proponent
Salt Lake Tribune (UT)

We need to pour our resources, as a country, into developing more efficient and safer nuclear power plants, especially since nuclear power only provides us ...

* The nuclear fight's still on, but the sides look different
Houston Chronicle (TX)

The nuclear power debate that gripped the country in the 1970s and 1980s is heating up again, but don't expect a replay of the same old arguments. ...

* Constellation Energy Reports Strong First Quarter 2007 Results
PR Newswire (press release) (NY)

'We completed our first quarter nuclear refueling outages, executing the refueling and reactor vessel head replacement at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant ...

* Results Of Manhattanville College Poll Announced
Westchester.com (NY)

Voters have concerns about the risks associated with the Indian Point nuclear power plant, but on balance a shut down of the plant is not favored. ...

* Hey, Tim!
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)

... you can see the nuclear power plant towers in Perry that produced such a bonanza of tax dollars for that small town that it built a $70 million, ...

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Energy Costs Undermine Economic Growth
Ellsworth American (ME)

What did happen is that much of the electricity the utilities once generated at lower-cost hydroelectric, coal-fired and nuclear power plants has been ...

* Power marketer's profits rise 72 percent
Washington Times (DC)

Output from Constellation's nuclear power plants rose 2 percent to 7.1 million megawatt-hours after the company sold six plants that burn natural gas, ...

* UNH graduate donates system to warn of danger
The Union Leader (NH)

... in use at many military bases including ones in Iraq and Afghanistan and at numerous nuclear power plants including the one in Seabrook, Kurze said. ...

* The uranium game is changing
WA Business News (subscription) (Australia)

A third sign is that leading players in the nuclear power game have said publicly, for the first time, that they know exactly what's afoot, ...

* Wind farm at a standstill
The Tribune-Democrat (PA)

Meeting that demand, Lutz said, requires the equivalent of 40 new coal-powered nuclear power plants per year. Estimates are that seven wind farms statewide ...

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Eau de Earl?
TV Fodder (CT)

Smell the world of Camden County come alive including the Nuclear Power Plant, the tire fire, Moe's Tavern...umÉsorryÉwrong sitcom. ...

* Daewoo E&C's Q1 earnings drop nearly 8 pct
Yonhap News (South Korea)

... projects such as a nuclear power plant and a tidal power plant in the country, and to win profitable orders in countries like Nigeria, Qatar and Libya.

* Hill Airman reflects on legacy of grandfather; a Tuskegee Airman
Hilltop Times (UT)

During his career he worked on the development of nuclear powered aircraft. When he retired he became a guest speaker for the Wright-Patterson Chapter of ...

* The Danger of Environmentalism
American Chronicle (CA)

They inhibit or prohibit the development of Alaskan oil, offshore drilling, nuclear power--and every other practical form of energy. ...

* CEZ reports on Temelin operations during 2002 to 2007
Energy Business Review)

Czech utility CEZ has presented a summary of the operating events at its Temelin nuclear power plant in southern Bohemia in the period 2002 to 2007. ...

* Exelon Powers Up in First Quarter
Briefing.com (IL)

US nuclear power company Exelon Corp. (EXC, 75.42, +0.43) has further fueled our impression that it's one of the standouts in the Utility Sector, ...

* We're not that bad, honest
Scotsman (UK)

The party was awarded zero out of ten for the green quality of its manifesto by Friends of the Earth, primarily for backing nuclear power and for having ...

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Russia hesitant on nuclear fuel
PRESS TV (Iran)

Iran's Parliament Speaker expressed his hope that Russians will not hesitate in completing Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr. ...

* Bayrou Refuses to Back Royal or Sarkozy
Buzzle (CA)

She also wants to cut dependence on nuclear power by increasing the share of renewable energy sources to 20% by 2020, with that figure eventually rising to ...

* They don't need repeating
Malaysia Star (Malaysia)

... the process that produces fuel for nuclear power stations but in highly extended form can also make the fissile core for an atomic bomb. ...

* Yushchenko delays election
TVNZ (New Zealand)

... scant hours before he was due to take part in a post-midnight service marking the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. ...

* Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and peak oil
Energy Bulletin)

It will come to place pressure upon the use of all other sources of energy -- be it natural gas, coal, nuclear power, and all types of sundry renewables, ...

* Build more hydro to counter global warming
Grand Coulee Star (WA)

By putting in millions of generators all over the world, we could cut down on gas, oil and nuclear power plants which all contribute to global warming. ...

* European Wind Companies Grow in US
International Business Times (NY)

Wind-powered electricity remains more expensive than using coal or natural gas, but cheaper than nuclear power and far cheaper than solar, according to the ...

* US warns of more sanctions on Belarus
MLive.com (MI)

The country's beleaguered opposition has vowed to hold a rally in Minsk on Thursday marking the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. ...

* Lines drawn over power transmission
Minnesota Public Radio (MN)

'I think it's a lot better than a nuclear plant. Coal is, the pollution, there's problems there too you know.' It's the sort of project renewable energy ...

* Omaha Zoo Inspires Lawmaker
H2 Daily (NV)

... and has neither the destructive emissions of coal generated electricity, nor the hazardous waste associated with nuclear power generation. ...

* Despite global warming alarm bells, Asia turns to coal
Jurnalo (Germany)

With high oil prices, limited reserves of natural gas, well-founded fears about nuclear power and the high-cost of renewable energy alternatives, ...

* US and Japan sign nuclear power pact
Los Angeles Times (CA)

The Bush administration's plan to rapidly expand global nuclear energy took a key step Wednesday when the government signed an agreement with Japan to ...

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Cheers! Maths pours the perfect beer
ABC Science Online (Australia)

Kinderlehrer says new materials now under study are batteries that do not corrode and shrink-wrap metals that could be used to repair nuclear power plants ...

* Jobs hope from clean, green power-generating machine
The Northern Echo (UK)

The power station is intended to help meet predicted growth in electricity demand at a time when many coal, oil and nuclear power stations are reaching the ...

* Hedge fund managers rake it in
St. Petersburg Times (FL)

Combined, the top five hedge fund managers last year earned $14-billion - enough to pay for nearly all three of the newly proposed nuclear power plants in ...

* Sarnia will shine with massive solar farm
Hamilton Spectator (Canada)

But compared to coal, nuclear power and even wind, the clean image of solar still comes at a high price. OptiSolar is selling the electricity to the ...

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GM unveils the Volt, its hydrogen fuel cell car
Hamilton Spectator (Canada)

... produce hydrogen from natural gas and other sources, and growing anxiety about oil supplies and global warming should increase the appeal of such cars. ...

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Energy Costs Undermine Economic Growth
Ellsworth American (ME)

What did happen is that much of the electricity the utilities once generated at lower-cost hydroelectric, coal-fired and nuclear power plants has been ...

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* 424
Important: Tony Blair on a visit to Sellafield
News & Star (UK)

By 2026 it is hoped west Cumbria will have become the world leader in energy, environment and technology, building on its nuclear heritage to attracted a ...

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* 454
How To Rate Your Favorite Uranium Company
Best Syndication (CA)

Many investors invested in the Great Uranium Bull Market with little rationale behind their speculation. Through the robust rallies of the past two years, ...

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* 72
Disappearance of bees affecting Greenbluff crops
KXLY (WA)

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems. In a small study, placing a working cell phone handset near a ...

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Measuring nanoamperes
EDN.com (MA)

The large area provides an ample target for cosmic radiation, creating ionized charges that interfere with the measurement (Figure 8). ...

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Rapid-fire Pulse Brings Sandia Z Method Closer To Goal Of High ...
Science Daily (press release))

Science Daily Ñ An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, ...

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* 156
China mulling plan to patent its own nuclear power plants
Zee News (India)

Beijing, April 25: China is planning to develop its own patented technology for third generation nuclear power plants which could be available before the ...

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* 159
Sound the Alarm
Style Weekly (VA)

... communities of air raids, sirens later were expanded as a tool to warn the public during potential nuclear attacks and impending natural disasters. ...

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* 158
Yushchenko: region around Chernobyl nuclear plant must be put to ...
Pravda (Russia)

On eve of the 21 st anniversary of the World's most nightmarish ever nuclear accident, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said that uninhabited and ...

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* 164
Contaminated farmland used by over 600 agricultural enterprises in ...
naviny.by (Belarus)

Farmland contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl accident is used by more than 600 agricultural enterprises in Belarus, Mikalay Tsybulka, ...

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(AP) Romney Favors Ambassador to Deter Nukes
WKRN (TN)

Republican Mitt Romney would appoint an ambassador-at-large to prevent nuclear terror if elected president, arguing that avoiding a terrorist attack with ...

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* 157
Endless power, endless cost
Connect Savannah.com (GA)

Editor's Note: In last week's Lead Story 'Atomic Spring,' Kathleen Graham brought us an overview of the resurgence of nuclear power advocacy in Georgia. ...

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N. Koreans Face China's Hostility After Escaping 'Hell on Earth'
Christian Post)

... ties with South Korea at the start of a visit aimed at consolidating ties and presenting a united front against North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions. ...

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US Shield Wont Threaten Russian Deterrent, Rice
Javno.hr (Croatia)

The United States needs to dispel Cold War 'suspicion' that a planned US missile defence shield in Europe could threaten Russia's nuclear deterrent, ...

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Bush raises possibility of talks with Iran
Telegraph.co.uk (UK)

Iranian officials meanwhile met EU negotiators today in an effort to reach a compromise over its nuclear programme. On the eve of the talks, ...

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* 109
Kalam for cooperation in energy sector with EU
Zee News (India)

He rallied for support in the field of nuclear energy, emphasising that India's programme was for non-military purposes. Addressing the European Parliament ...

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* 111
Vajpayee criticises Mulayam govt
NDTV.com (India)

Reminding the people of May 11 next, the day Pokharan II nuclear test was conducted in 1998 by his government, Vajpayee said the counting of votes for the ...

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* 124
Secret US-Iranian talks?
Aljazeera.com (UK)

Today's meeting between the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Turkey signals a continued EU wish to ...

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* 151
North Korea Fetes Fearsome But Fragile Army
Javno.hr (Croatia)

Proliferation experts do not believe North Korea, which conducted its first nuclear test in October, has the ability yet to miniaturise a nuclear warhead to ...

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* 193
Heat blankets 'present electromagnetic risk'
TUV Product Service (UK)

It produces low-level radiation similar to that emitted by mobile phones and microwave ovens, products that have already received media attention and been ...

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* 188
Satellites Play Vital Role In Understanding The Carbon Cycle
Science Daily (press release))

The fraction of incoming solar radiation useful for photosynthesis that is actually absorbed by vegetation Ð a value known as the Fraction of Absorbed ...

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* 210
Scientists Track Impact Of Asian Dust And Pollution On Clouds,
Pollution Online (press release) (PA)

While many particles in the plumes, such as sulfates, cool the planet by blocking solar radiation from reaching Earth, some particles such as black carbon ...

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* 230
China moves to shrink its carbon footprint
Christian Science Monitor (MA)

'Climate change has become a huge challenge to China's social and economic sustained development,' Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological ...

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* 241
NASA Satellite Takes AIM at Earth's Highest Clouds
Space.com)

... in regions previously void of such displays, prompting some researchers to link their formation to worldwide climate changes such as global warming. ...

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* 247
Extraordinary Antarctic Ice Core Will Help Scientists Study Global ...
Science Daily (press release))

... acquisition will offer an international team of scientists meeting there May 1-4 its best look yet at the impact of global warming on oceans worldwide. ...

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FSU draws International scientists to discuss global warming ...
Florida State University (FL)

... acquisition will offer an international team of scientists meeting here May 1-4 its best look yet at the impact of global warming on oceans worldwide. ...

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* 342
Insurers warn of rising flood risk
Environmental Data Interactive (UK)

Flood managers should take climate change into account, and high flood risk areas where no investment is made to improve flood protection will not be ...

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* 416
USEPA should regulate GHGs, says US Supreme Court
Down to Earth (subscription) (India)

The court demanded scientific grounds for epa's refusal to decide whether ghgs cause or contribute to climate change rather than policy or political reasons ...

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* 465
Eyes in the sky grow dim
BBC News (UK)

Programmes involving measurements of temperature, ozone, ocean winds, water vapour, and solar radiation are among those expected to be curtailed. ...

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NASA satellite to study polar clouds
KOMO (WA)

Scientists are puzzled by the changes, but some suggest they may be due to global climate change. The spacecraft, which will spend two years studying the ...

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* 524
Satellite takes AIM at Earth's highest clouds
MSNBC)

... in regions previously void of such displays, prompting some researchers to link their formation to worldwide climate changes such as global warming. ...

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* 466
Dems Vote Subpoenas in Widening Probes
The Southern (IL)

On the uranium issue, Rice's allies maintained that she has for years answered Congress' questions under oath, as well as media inquiries, ...

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* 477
Climate-Change Divide
Pasadena Weekly (CA)

Now two factors are conspiring to make airline travel a hot topic in the global-warming debate: If current trends continue, the number of airline tickets ...

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* 482
'Sweet spot' for life in solar system excites
China Post (Taiwan)

If alien astronomers saw Venus from afar, for instance, they would not be able to tell that a runaway greenhouse effect has created an unlivable world, ...

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* 198
To the big bang and back
Signandsight.com (Germany)

Planets circle the sun, the moon the earth, electrons the atomic core. Moreover, circles make ideal running circuits if one needs to get atomic particles to ...

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* 190
A Massive Explosion on the Sun
PhysOrg.com (VA)

This is called a 'radiation storm.' If astronauts had been on the Moon at the time, they may have been forced to stay indoorsÑinside their spaceships or ...

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* 178
Cosmologically Speaking, Diamonds May Actually Be Forever
Science Daily (press release))

That is, the current status quo between matter and its alter ego, radiation, will continue as the newly discovered force of dark energy pushes the universe ...

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* 93
New Materials For Making 'Spintronic' Devices
Science Daily (press release))

Such relativistic particles are studied at Brookhaven at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a nuclear physics facility where scientists are trying ...

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The 1st International Festival of NANOART - Finland 2007
Nanotechnology News (press release))

... through chemical/physical processes and visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscope or Atomic Force Microscope. ...