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Aceh's purge of illegal oil palm at 3,000 hectares and counting

2015-04-06 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A joint effort to eradicate illegal oil palm in an area of Indonesia's Aceh province that was devastated by flash flooding in 2006 has dismantled 3,000 hectares worth of plantations and counting. The plantations lie within the protected Leuser Ecosystem (KEL), the last place on earth where the Sumatran rhino, elephant, tiger and orangutan coexist in the wild. "This is being done to protect the people of Aceh Tamiang from ecological disaster," said Rudi Putra, head of HAkA, a local NGO. In...

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PerkinElmer Expands Liquid Scintillation Counting Portfolio with...

2015-04-02 01:19:20| Electronics - Topix.net

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of its new Quantulus GCT and Tri-Carb 4810TR, 4910TR and 5110TR liquid scintillation counters . These modernized benchtop systems, which are among the most sensitive available in the marketplace, measure low levels of radioactivity and perform advanced particle discrimination.

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36 Years of Three Mile Island's Lethal Lies ...and Still Counting

2015-03-29 23:57:52| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

As the first major reactor accident that was made known to the public is sadly commemorated, and as the global nuclear industry collapses, let's count just 36 tip-of-the iceberg ways the nuclear industry's radioactive legacy continues to fester: 1. When about half of TMI's fuel melted on March 28, 1979, the owners, industry and regulators all denied it, and continued to deny it until robotic cameras showed otherwise. 2. Early signs that such an accident could happen had already surfaced at the Davis-Besse reactor in Ohio, which was also manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox.

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