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Climate Change in Southeast Asia 3
Will the impact of global climate change on Southeast Asia encourage governments to turn to nuclear energy?
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Concerns Regarding Nuclear Energy
The article focusses on the drawbacks of harnessing nuclear energy at present. It talks in detail of issues surrouding nuclear energy that are causing anxiety.
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Netherlands Nuclear Energy Profile
In 2005, the Netherlands' government abandoned a previous decision to phase-out nuclear power and is currently considering the construction of new nuclear plants.
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Nuclear Energy - Czech Republic
The Czech Republic currently has operating nuclear reactors at two separate locations and plans to build new units at each facility to cover additional capacity needs.
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Nuclear Energy – The Debate About Future Power
Nuclear energy is becoming popular again in the search for alternative energy supplies. Though using nuclear power raises some serious concerns, it also has its benefits
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Belgium
Begium's two nuclear power facilities generate over half the nation's electricity. Most fuel fabrication, reprocessing and waste management is handled domestically.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Finland
Finland currently operates four nuclear reactors, plans on adding new units for additional capacity, and is building an underground permanent waste storage facility.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Germany
Germany is slowly phasing out its nuclear energy program, but environmental pressures could force the government to build new reactors and abandon its reliance on coal.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Hungary
Hungary generates nuclear power from a single facility located in the country's central region and is considering construction of new reactors for increased production.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Lithuania
The European Union has demanded Lithuania close its only operational nuclear reactor, however a new shared facility with Estonia, Latvia and Poland is expected by 2015.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Sweden
In recent years, Sweden has changed its stance on nuclear power. The operational lives of many existing reactors has been extended amid plans to build new facilities.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Ukraine
Ukraine currently operates 15 nuclear reactors, and has formulated a strategy for doubling their current capacity, while building new uranium production facilities.
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Propulsion Using Nuclear Energy
This article discusses another application of nuclear energy - Propulsion. Construction and working of the mechanism are discussed in brief.
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Russian Nuclear Energy Facilities
Russia operates more nuclear power reactors than any European country except France and is moving forward with plans for an increasing role in global atomic energy.
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Russian Nuclear Energy Policies
Russia, a world leader in the production of nuclear power plants, has new goals and policies for increased power production and construction of new waste facilities.
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Alternative Sources of Energy
There are a number of alternative sources of energy and environmentally friendly fuels available to combat the damage to the environment caused by Fossil Fuels.
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Investing in Alternative Energy ETFs
Between global warming and skyrocketing oil prices, investing in alternative energy has become more than a fad. ETFs are the simple way to add it to your portfolio.
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Is Nuclear Power Green?
Green house gas emissions, fossil fuel shortages and global warming happening now, we must consider nuclear power as a viable technology for our future energy needs.
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Operating A Nuclear Power Station
The central nucleus of an atom, is composed of tiny particles called protons and neutrons, held together by forces of enormous magnitude.
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The Case for Streamlining the Reactor Process
A new web memorandum by the Heritage Foundation argues for a streamlined process for nuclear reactor construction permits.
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The Golden Age of Atomic Power in Space
An interview with Dr. Brian Dunne, chief experimentalist for Project Orion, Part I: Jackass Flats
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What is Physical Chemistry?
Burning fuels, refrigeration, radioactivity, enzymes and cookery all depend on processes and theories in a less glamorous branch of science.
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Nuclear Energy Profile - Romania
Romania currently operates two nuclear power reactors at its Cernavoda facility and has created a joint venture project to add new units for increased capacity.
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World's Best Uranium Countries
After being enriched, a finger-tip-size uranium fuel pellet stores as much energy as 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 1.8 thousand pounds of coal or 149 gallons of oil.
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Introduction to Renewable Energy Issues
In Kyoto last year, countries around the world agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Finding alternative energy sources to power the world requires breakthroughs in technology and the way we think.
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Nuclear Chain Reactions
Most people are aware of the destructive force held within an atomic weapon, but what are physical forces are conspiring in order to cause such a violent explosion?
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Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Nuclear Power has been ignored in the past in favor of alternative energy sources. Here are the pros and cons of the nuclear option in the fight against global warming.
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Greenpeace - Globe Saving Plan
Environmental activists are boosting a plan they say is a blueprint to staving off future climate change and therefore averting catastrophe.
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Disposal of Nuclear Waste
This article discusses the concerns surrounding nuclear waste and the current methods used to get rid of them.
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Nuclear Power Plants
This topic discusses the importance of nuclear energy today and explains the construction and working of a nuclear power plant.
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Top Alternative Energy Investments
Oil stocks have reaped the reward of record oil prices, but demand for other solutions has grown. Alternative energy companies are now a big investment opportunity.
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Albert Einstein, Scientist
Brief biography of Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss-American mathematical physicist famous for Theory of Relativity with equation E=MC2.
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Bachmann and Tinklenberg on Issues
On November 4, 2008, Minnesota 6th District voters will choose between Michele Bachman and El Tinklenberg in a race that has drawn national attention.
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Barack Obama and John McCain's Second Debate
In the second presidential debate, attacks escalated as Obama and McCain touched on alternative energy, Iraq, Russia, tax cuts, and health care plans.
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Can Capitalism Ever Be Environmentally Friendly?
Capitalism is a worldwide system of never-ending growth and profits, but at what cost to the environment? Can Capitalism and Conservation ever co-exist?
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Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Are we looking for God in a certain place? Do miracles only occur on designated Holy Ground? Or is the very ground we walk on Holy?
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Palin, Biden Debate Foreign Policy
In St. Louis, MO, at the only Vice Presidential debate, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden traded talking points about U.S. foreign policy, with Biden winning on experience.
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Pulsars: Mighty Mice
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The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
The true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor
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What and Who is Self-Sufficient?
What does it take to be "Self-Sufficient"? What needs to be done, to what degree, and involving whom? And how does self-sufficiency relate to self- sustainability?
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World’s Top Uranium Project
A Canadian company owns a vast uranium mine set to benefit from soaring uranium prices, increased exports to China and Australia's decision to allow more uranium mining.
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Are Oil Companies Greedy?
Or are consumers and politicians greedy to expect oil companies to take huge risks drilling for oil in hostile environments without compensation?
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Attracting and Evaluating Direct Foreign Investment: Part 3
Can Louisiana parish and city planners learn some economic development lessons from Korea, Mexico, and Israel? Let's look and see.
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Somewhere Under the Waves
The fabled lost continent of Atlantis. Did it really exist? This ismy theory. I let my imagination run wild on this one. It reads like Science Fiction. But is it? Remember, I may have Atlantean roots.
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The Discovery of the Neutron
In 1932, James Chadwick proved that the atomic nucleus contained a neutral particle which had been proposed more than a decade earlier by Ernest Rutherford.
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A Life of Dedication - Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963, the second woman to do so. Her life and work speak of her dedication to and love of science at a time when women and wives found it difficult to take their place in the research community within universities. She was proud to be the seventh generation of university professors in her family.
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Keeping Time with Nuclear
Time change is one of the most stressful times in a person lives. Learn what the Himalayan School of Psychology and Auto Mechanics reports on this matter and how paralells the behavior between man and the rare PJ Bear. Discover the tools that will make time change a less stressful experience.
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Power...at what price?
The energy crisis of the future is now raging in California. What can we do to prevent a full scale catastrophe across the US and the world?
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