Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
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United Kingdom to allow Chinese companies to purchase stakes in latest $25.9b reactor project The United Kingdom recently signed a $25.9 billion deal to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in the southwestern part of England. ...
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Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum announces vacuum technology deal with global manufacturer of uranium centrifuges for nuclear power facilities. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum has received an order worth a 'double-digit' figure in millions of Euros for ...
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Algeria has discovered new gas reserves in exploration programs recently, the country's Minister of Energy and Mines, Youcef Yousfi, said during a press conference on Monday. "This year's intensified gas exploration program enabled ...
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An estimated 300 metric tons of highly radioactive water is believed to have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant, the operator said on Tuesday as it battled the latest toxic water ...
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This Special Issue of Desalination brings together 15 papers on radioactive decontamination of water, including individual studies as well as comprehensive reviews of the latest technology developments in this field. This Special Issue on ...
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From the designer that helped so many other designers get their start in the design industry, this Italian entrepreneur Giulio Cappellini’s unique use of color, handblown glass and unusual placement of the light bulb within the ...
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Panasonic launches expansion of its LED lighting business across Asia, Philips Lighting announced new Fortimo modules and licensing milestone, and Osram Sylvania and Comcast partner onadaptive home lighting. Phillips Lighting has ...
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Taiwan is building its fourth nuclear power plant. The main island of Taiwan is only 36,193 square kilometers and already houses three nuclear power plants - two of them in New Taipei City in northern Taiwan and one located in Pintung ...
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A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part of an important cyberespionage operation, the head of the malware analysis team at ...
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The head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky said last week that a recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and probably part of ...
An increasing number of vulnerability researchers will focus their attention on industrial control systems(ICS)in the year to come,but so will cyberattackers,security experts believe. Control systems are made up of supervisory software ...
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HMS Group has won an€18 million international competitive bid to supply pumps for Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corp's Jiangsu Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant(JTNPP)in China. HMS will produce and deliver high/low pressure emergency injection ...
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Creating domestic demand is more important than funding international projects,says Giga Solar chairman Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 8 October 2012]The Taiwan government should create domestic demand first instead of ...
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The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, is set to ease restrictions on Japanese food imports beginning 1 November 2012. Import restrictions were imposed following an accident at the nuclear plant in Fukushima ...
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