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Hope for Natural Gas Pipeline Shifts From Juneau to Japan
Channel 2 NewsAfter state lawmakers failed to pass legislation that might have brought a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, new hope for such a project has been revived Tuesday -- by officials with the government of Japan. On Monday night, Sen. Lisa...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Energy Resources, Natural Resources, Japan, Lisa Murkowski
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On this date in history: The Chernobyl disaster
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine had an explosion and a fire that released radioactive particles into the atmosphere where they spread over several other countries in what is acknowledged to be the worst nuclear...
Tags: Russia, ABC (tv network), Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Ukraine, Nuclear Power
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River Monsters Season 5 will include visits to Chernobyl and Loch Ness
Channel Guide Magazine“I realize there will come a point at which my searching must come to an end — once I've found every river monster and all the world's underwater mysteries are solved,” says biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade, host of Animal... -
Nuclear blows away wind
The primary motivation among environmentalists for developing wind energy is legitimate concern about the effects of climate change. Wind is alleged to provide important relief from the emission of carbon dioxide from electricity production. But without...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Wind Power, Science, Conservation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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The danger of relying on nuclear power plants
Norman Meadow's commentary promoting nuclear power over wind energy as a solution to climate change leaves out serious unsolved problems that wind does not present ("Nuclear blows away wind," Feb. 1). Huge piles of highly radioactive waste are sitting...Tags: Nuclear Accidents, Renewable Energy, Food and Drug Administration, Waste, Alternative Energy
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...Tags: Technology, Los Angeles Unified School District, Abusive Behavior, Aerospace Manufacturing, Cornell University
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In wake of Fukushima disaster, Japan to end nuclear power by 2030s
World NowThe Japanese government announced a dramatic turn in its energy policy Friday, vowing to make the densely populated island nation nuclear-free by the 2030s. Last year's tsunami-triggered disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power complex forced evacuation of... -
17-year-old wears lace mini dress to graduation
KIAHEastern European internet is ablaze with reports of another Chernobyl-like explosion! This time, the blast was sparked by a Ukrainian honor student's graduation outfit which caused her male classmates’ rods to go into full blown melt-down!...Tags: Lady Gaga
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Mutant Butterflies Linked to Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
KTLA NewsFUKUSHIMA, Japan -- In the first sign that the Fukushima nuclear disaster may be changing life around it, scientists say they've found mutant butterflies. Some of the butterflies had abnormalities in their legs, antennae, and abdomens, and dents in their...Tags: Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Genes and Chromosomes, Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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Japan leaders, utility slammed for 'man-made' nuclear disaster
Los Angeles TimesAn independent parliamentary commission accused the Japanese government and the nation's leading utility of "collusion" in avoiding vital nuclear safety improvements that would have prevented the reactor meltdowns last year at the tsunami-damaged...Tags: Nuclear Accidents, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Yoshihiko Noda, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Politics
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Natural Perspectives: How to bring that power to the people
I would make a bad Amish person because I like electricity. So does Vic. We like it so much that we want to make sure that we keep receiving it, but we wonder where electrical power is going to come from in the future. As the population grows and we...Tags: Nuclear Accidents, Renewable Energy, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Alternative Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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News briefs for Thursday, May 3
U.S. ambassador denies blind Chinese activist's claim he was pressured to leave Embassy BEIJING (AP) — U.S. officials said Thursday they are still trying to help a blind Chinese activist who says he fears for his family's safety, and denied he...
Tags: Government Health Care, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Politics, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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