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Help create safer conditions on SE Powell Boulevard

2013-06-19 20:55:26| PortlandOnline

Open house on June 26th

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Create a safer neighborhood with a party

2013-06-10 22:43:38| PortlandOnline

National Night Out's 30th annual celebration is coming on August 6th!

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Nuclear Power, Part 1: A Smaller, Safer Future

2013-06-07 19:09:23| TechNewsWorld

Keeping the lights on in the global industrial world -- never an easy task -- never seems to get any easier. Nuclear energy, which provides nearly 20 percent of our nation's electricity, is at a crossroads. Can nuclear reactors -- the torrid, pulsating, heat-generating hearts of nuclear power plants -- ever be safe enough? Thanks to several new technologies, the outlook is promising.

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New sulfur-based battery is safer, cheaper, more powerful than lithium-ion

2013-06-06 15:01:31| Extremetech

Scientists at the DoE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have struck the battery mother lode: They've created an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery that is cheaper, less flammable, and has four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries. Beyond the obvious gains from a four-fold increase in energy density, these sulfur-based batteries could play a key role in electric vehicles and airplanes, where the flammability of lithium-ion batteries is a serious concern.

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