The US Navy and 40 allies gathered in Bahrain Monday to begin two weeks of naval anti-mine exercises designed to keep the Persian Gulf open to oil shipping. Although the exercises, billed as the largest ever in the region, have been ...
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Electricity is one of the necessities people cannot live without. Due to risen energy consumption over the past decades, it has become necessary to look into new ways of generating electricity. Traditionally, electricity has been produced ...
A historic settlement announced today with the Kerr-McGee Corporation and certain of its affiliates (“New Kerr-McGee”), and their parent Anadarko Petroleum Corporation will greatly benefit environmental cleanups at the Welsbach ...
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This may look to some like a chandelier that you would see on Halloween night or hung in a funky dance club in Los Angeles or New York City, and it may be. But more importantly it is a statement from the?Australian artists Ken and Julia ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory has brought a third waste repackaging facility online to in Tanks containing transuranic waste are trucked from Los Alamos National Lab to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, ...
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Researchers from security firm Symantec have found and analyzed a version of the Stuxnet cybersabotage malware that predates previously discovered versions by at least two years and used a different method of disrupting uranium enrichment ...
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The need to meet new environmental standards, the growing demand for water and the need to replace obsolete infrastructure are causing U.S. water utilities to embark on thousands of capital improvement projects. These projects are tracked ...
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International online news: the uranium enrichment centrifuges developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation, in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, recently successfully achieve industrial application. It indicates ...
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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 ...
As the world's only high-power benchtop sequential wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer for elemental analysis of oxygen (O) through uranium (U) of almost any material, the all new Rigaku Supermini200 uniquely ...
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Iran's growing cyber capabilities are a "force to be reckoned with", a senior United States Air Force officer has warned. General William Shelton, commander of the US Air Force Space Command, made the comment to reporters at a Defense ...
Believing that radon is only a problem in some parts of the country is just one of the myths surrounding the radioactive gas that's responsible for 21,000 lung cancer deaths a year. Elevated radon levels have been found in one in 15 homes ...
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The Australian sharemarket closed at a 19-month high as firming expectations of a February interest rate cut helped banking stocks. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 18.3 points, or 0.38 per cent, higher at 4756.6 ...
Applied Rigaku Technologies introduce a new low cost, high resolution benchtop Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) elemental analyzer, the Rigaku NEX QC+. The compact NEX QC+ delivers rapid quantitative determination of sodium ...
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