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Aging Nuclear Plants Are Closing, but for Economic Reasons, Not Protests
2013-06-15 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When does a nuclear plant become too old? The nuclear industry is wrestling with that question as it tries to determine whether problems at reactors, all designed in the 1960s and 1970s, are middle-aged aches and pains or end-of-life crises. This year, utilities have announced the retirement of four reactors, bringing the number remaining in the United States to 100. Three had expensive mechanical problems but one, Kewaunee in Wisconsin, was running well, and its owner, Dominion, had secured permission...
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U.S. shale is a boon to manufacturers but not their workers
2013-06-14 09:29:26| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
This city has been down for so long, it's hard to believe what's risen up here in the heart of America's "Rust Belt."
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Comment - Britvic Needs a Merger, not a Gamble
2013-06-13 12:35:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
What a difference four months makes for Britvic chairman Gerald Corbett.
Third of all honeybee colonies in England did not survive winter
2013-06-13 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than a third of all honeybee colonies in England died over the winter, according to figures from the British Beekeepers Association, the worst losses since its winter survival survey began. On average, 33.8 colonies in every 100 perished over the long winter of 2012-13 compared with 16.2% the previous winter. In the south-west of England, more than half of all colonies were wiped out and in the northern part of the country 46.4% didn't survive. In Scotland and Wales, honeybees fared no...
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Intel's new Haswell chips may be hot -- but not in a good way
2013-06-11 14:18:31| InfoWorld: Top News
Early tests, online discussions and even some OEMs seem to show a potential bump in the road for Intel's latest-generation processor architecture a bump you can see on a temperature graph. The new Haswell line of processors, at least according to early scuttlebutt from various quarters of the Internet, appears to generate more heat at a given voltage than the preceding Ivy Bridge-based designs, which creates problems for system builders.
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