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- Nuclear Power Corporation cautions against nuclear liability bill amendments (Daily News & Analysis)
While opposition parties see red in the latest amendments made to the nuclear liability bill, the Nuclear Power Corporation today cautioned that under these changes no Indian or foreign manufacturer would be able to serve the nuclear power industry.Radioactive Waste
- Could high level nuclear waste be on it's way to Utah? (ABC4)
A Federal judge recently struck down a ruling that is keeping high level nuclear waste from being stored on an Indian reservation in Tooele County. It’s a judicial move that could make it easier to bring the highly toxic waste into the state of Utah where it will be stored.Cleanup
- Critics of the Feds reap federal $$$s (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
But the cleanup -- or "failed cleanup" as GOP Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn called it last November -- has kept contractors on the job and, at times, put more people on the payroll than during days of plutonium production.Hanford
- Former Hanford vit plant executive claims retaliation (Mid Columbia Tri City Herald)
Walter Tamosaitis, a senior executive who lost his job at the Hanford vitrification plant, has filed a retaliation complaint against URS, the main subcontractor on the project.Health
- Worldwide shortage of isotopes for medical imaging could threaten quality of patient care (Eurekalert)
Twenty million medical scans and treatments are done each year that require radioactive isotopes and scientists today described a global shortage of these life-saving materials that could jeopardize patient care and drive-up health care costs.- CT Algorithm Lowers Radiation Dose (MedPage Today)
A new algorithm for reconstruction in coronary CT angiography (CTA) lowers radiation dose but doesn't increase image noise, researchers have found.Nuclear Power
- Nuclear plant's use of river water prompts $1.1 billion debate with state (NYT)
Just beneath the wind-stippled surface of the Hudson River, huge pipes suck enough water into the Indian Point nuclear plant every second to fill three Olympic swimming pools. And each second they take in dozens of organisms that are at the center of a $1.1 billion debate.- Russia helps Iran load fuel into its first nuclear power plant:(WP)
Iranian and Russian engineers began loading nuclear fuel into Iran's first atomic power plant Saturday amid international concern that the Islamic Republic is seeking a nuclear weapon.Space/Cosmic Radiation
- Beer bugs live 553 days in space (BBC News)
The Beer microbes were placed on the European Space Agency's (Esa) Technology Exposure Facility, a collection of experimental boxes at the end of the International Space Station's (ISS) Columbus Laboratory.
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