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Tiny nuclear waste fee added up to billions

2014-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA imes: A charge for electricity that millions of Americans didn't even know they pay will suddenly disappear Friday, after the Energy Department this week quietly notified utilities across the country that it was suspending its fees for a future nuclear waste dump. The Energy Department has been collecting $750 million from electricity bills every year for such a dump since 1983, putting it into a trust fund that now contains $31 billion. The court-ordered suspension may be a modest victory for consumers,...

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Worlds first superconducting power line paves the way for billions of dollars in savings, more nuclear power stations

2014-05-14 16:20:28| Extremetech

A new (relatively) high-temperature superconductor is now serving the German city of Essen, possibly marking the beginning of one of our most important global upgrades.

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Battle over Nortel's billions begin in U.S., Canadian courts

2014-05-12 22:52:00| Telecom - Topix.net

WILMINGTON, Del. Judges in Wilmington, Delaware, and Toronto jointly kicked off a novel cross-border trial on Monday to divvy up the $7.3 billion that was raised in the liquidation of once-mighty telecoms equipment maker Nortel Networks, which went bust in 2009.

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Computer Sim Shows Cosmic Evolution Over Billions and Billions of Years

2014-05-08 23:54:36| TechNewsWorld

Scientists have created a computer simulation that not only models the evolution of the universe down to the formation of individual galaxies, but also matches astronomical observations. Unlike earlier efforts, the simulation depicts ordinary matter in the form of hydrogen gas from the start. The Illustris project models a cubic section of the universe measuring 106.5 megaparsecs on each side.

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