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To keeping on nuc-ing...or not

That is the question. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will next year decide whether to keep the Indian Point nuclear generating plant online for another twenty-five years. This time the arguments over Indian Point have a strong economic content. New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation says...

Tags: Plant, New York State, NRC, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-16

Yucca Mt. simulation too complex for NRC to check

Nevadas anti-nuclear activists inadvertently received good news from the Department of Energy recently. The requirements to run DOEs simulation - on whether the proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevadas Yucca Mountain will work - is so complicated, no one can run it, reports the Nevada Appeal. The proposed...

Tags: Science, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-11

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Newspapers (Storm) (Mobile)

The name says it all...this app lets you read 75 national and international newspapers with the touch of a finger. All newspapers in one application, no need to visit multiple websites and have seperate bookmarks and icons.The best newspapers from around the world all in one easy to use application....

Tags: Newspaper, Mobile, Makayama Software, Advertising & Promotion, Web Site Development, Handhelds, Marketing, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-13

Newspapers (Mobile)

The name says it all...this app lets you read 75 national and international newspapers with the touch of a finger. All newspapers in one application, no need to visit multiple websites and have seperate bookmarks and icons.The best newspapers from around the world all in one easy to use application....

Tags: Newspaper, Mobile, Makayama Software, Advertising & Promotion, Web Site Development, Handhelds, Marketing, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-10

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?Neato technology, but...I was a nuclear engineer in a former life, so I can make a pretty good guess as to what the technology in these mini-nukes is. Its all very clever, as one could imagine from a product coming out of LANL.However,...

Tags: reactor, micro nuclear reactor, nuclear reactor, garden, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Neutrinox Robot Controller 2.2 (Windows)

Neutrinox Robot Controller allows you to control RS232 enabled microchips such as the PIC MCU and the Basic Stamp through your computers serial port. Neutrinox Robot Controller has a lot of configurable options, and we offer custom copy service should you not find the feature/s you�re looking for. Just...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Serial Port, Neutrinox Softwares, Neutrinox Robot Controller

Software downloads 2008-11-10

Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?

Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Using bacteria as medical robots

Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...

Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Nuclear waste, cheaper than Iraq, more expensive than a new laptop

Nuclear waste, cheaper than Iraq, more expensive than a new laptopThe answer to your questionis that deluded eco-socialists like yourself are the problem. Every time a nuclear waste solution is proposed, your ilk is there at the front lines doing their damndest to shut it down.That's why. Look in the...

Tags: laptop computer, more-expensive, new laptop, nuclear energy, Nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Life in extreme environments

U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....

Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-30

Thank you, taxpayer, for building my new nuc

So THAT'S why the nuclear power plant is being touted as a greast idea for the future of America. As the "Washington Post" explains today, you taxpayres are guaranteeing loans, covering insurance costs and grantring hefty subsidies. Thank you, thank you. From the bottom of my reactor...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Subsidy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-07

Giving the nuke option a fair shake

Giving the nuke option a fair shakeEnergy vs weapons??I dont have a position on this, but in light of recent discussions the US government is having regarding Iran, and Irans reply that it wants to secure its nuclear position for energy, what, exactly, is the truth regarding this?Is one inextricably...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Investment, project management, nuke option

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

Techs describe how Apple boosted iPhone battery life

Slate's David Sessions was wondering exactly how Apple has- at least by their own tested explanations- lengthened the battery life of the iPhone to as much as eight hours.Sessions then got busy, talking to some experts about how this could be done.Experts such as Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group,...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Are you ready for DST changes?

Are you ready for DST changes?Yes not sure where I wrk is... Also question on a cpu cooler=)Would this cooler wrk for over clocking??? Thermaltake Beetle 4 in 1 Performance Heatpipe Cooler. Here is the Link (http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-beetle-4-in-1-hsf.html). Also I'm looking at a different Mother Board than the ones you mentioned....

Tags: Newfoundland, DST Change, Thank-you, NRCC-INMS

Discussion threads 2007-03-05

TechNet Summit: Going for green tech

TechNet Summit: Going for green techUsing nuclear to create fossil fuelsWe could use nculear energy combined with our abundant coal supplies to create synthetic oil and natural gas with the well-known Fischer-Tropsch synethesis process, and stop importing oil completely while reducing CO2 emissions.Not unless they can do it reliably with...

Tags: green technology, fission, Microsoft TechNet, alcohol, gasoline, Brazilian

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

SAIC deserves big share of blame for Trilogy

The Washington Post takes a deep look today at the troubled FBI's troubled Trilogy system and the true disaster at its heart, the Virtual Case File system or VCF. While Congress and press have held the FBI's feet to the fire for the fiasco, Writers Dan Eggen and Griff Witte...

Tags: SAIC, FBI

Blog posts 2006-08-18

Is agricultural biotechnology safe?

Many of us are concerned by the possible risks of agricultural biotechnology. For example, when you grow transgenic crops, can their modified genes alter wild varieties of similar wild plants? The latest issue of the California Agriculture magazine carries several articles focusing on transgenic crops, fish and animals. And some...

Tags: crop, species, genetically engineered

Blog posts 2006-07-31

Atomic particles 'teleported'

Atomic particles 'teleported'So when Windows crashes, does your universe disappear?So on these proposed quantum computers, will aWindows crash lead to your universe disappearing?AtlantBeam me up Scotty ?NBQuantum Computer using Atomic Holographic Nanotechnologyhttp://p2pnet.net/story/842http://colossalstorage.net/colossal12.htmBreakthrough – World's First Entangled Atomic Particleshttp://www.nrc.org/press/PRshow.html?id=66A Windows Crash"So on these proposed quantum computers, will aWindows crash lead to...

Tags: Windows Crash, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-06-18

Blackouts highlight network vulnerabilities

Blackouts highlight network vulnerabilitiesBzzt, Wrong Summary"There is also no evidence, nor is there any information suggesting, that viruses and worms prevalent across the Internet at the time of the outage had any significant impact on power generation and delivery systems."While "power generation and delivery" wasn't affected, if you read the...

Tags: SECURITY, NETWORKING, Viruses and worms, blackout, Air Canada, network

Discussion threads 2003-11-25

Sage CRM SalesLogix Creates a Knowledge-Rich Environment for Canada's IRAP

IRAP, the Industrial Research Assistance Program, which is part of the Canadian National Research Council NRC, employs about 400 people across Canada to help small and midsized businesses turn research and technology into business opportunities. IRAP needed information on the technologies required to raise fish indoors on an economically viable...

Tags: Sage CRM SalesLogix, Sage Software, Canada, IRAP, Fax, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications

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