Topic: Energy Technology
APTOPIX Mideast Iran Nuclear
AP News
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wears eye protection goggles as he visits an exhibition of Iran's laser science, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher enriched uranium, a move that's likely to deepen international ...
WhatÕs next for Yucca? Restoration
Las Vegas Sun
When it was on the drawing boards, the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump promised unprecedented challenges to nuclear engineers and physicists: How to safely store nuclear waste underground? Now with the project being killed by President Barack Obama, the site will offer unprecedented challenges to desert ecologists: How to bring ...
The phone call that would bury dump plan
Las Vegas Sun
Reid gives and takes
to end nuke waste project Nevada never wanted WASHINGTON After all the years spent fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a phone call on a Wednesday in July between the Senate majority leader and the new energy secretary turned the tide. The Senate was ...
Negligence? Conn. gas blast criminal probe begins
AP News
Mayor says negligence can't be ruled out in Conn. gas plant explosion, criminal probe beginsAuthorities in Connecticut have launched a criminal investigation into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they can't rule out negligence. Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano ...
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