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NASA Designs HAMMER Spacecraft to Deflect or Nuke Dangerous Asteroids
2018-03-09 19:30:58| Extremetech
NASA and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are working on a new spacecraft design that could potentially deflect a dangerous asteroid before it falls out of the sky and knocks us back into the stone age. The post NASA Designs HAMMER Spacecraft to Deflect or Nuke Dangerous Asteroids appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Focus: Nuke plan diverts billions from climate change
2016-07-06 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sandiego Union Tribune: Last month, Californias largest utility unveiled a deal with environmental groups to scrap Diablo Canyon, the states last nuclear power plant, by 2025. Regulators may get details later this month. The idea seems absurd, given the states campaign to combat climate change. Replacing the nukes output -- cheap, zero-carbon power for 1.7 million homes -- can only hurt the planet, as well as cost consumers billions of dollars that could otherwise go toward displacing fossil fuels. So the only...
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Regulators hold public meeting on Fort Calhoun nuke plant
2016-03-17 11:56:10| Energy - Topix.net
Federal regulators are offering the public the chance to ask questions about the recent performance of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant. The power plant owned by the Omaha Public Power District sits on the banks of the Missouri River about 20 miles north of Omaha.
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Palo Verde nuke plant sets power output record
2016-03-09 01:31:27| Energy - Topix.net
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix broke its own output record last year and for the 24th time was the highest-producing power plant in the nation. The triple-reactor plant operated by Arizona Public Service Co.
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Time to pull the plug on Indian Point nuke plant
2016-03-03 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Villager: Environmental groups, and lawmakers, including Governor Cuomo, have demanded that Indian Point be closed, but its up to federal regulators. After the latest accident at the Indian Point nuclear reactors in Buchanan, N.Y. -- the seventh major malfunction in just eight months -- a coalition of six environmental and health organizations issued an urgent call to shut down the aging power plant while investigations by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and New York State agencies are conducted....