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...operational nuclear arms have been growing stronger in the last few months. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled on April 9 a revamped centrifuge capable of enriching uranium at faster speeds that, according to the State Department, would be unnecessary for peaceful nuclear power. The Arak heavy water plant and the Bushehr atomic reactor, both almost completed, could combine to produce dangerous quantities of plutonium for nuclear warheads. Furthermore, according to the “Weekly Standard,” a thus far unreleased report by the International Atomic Energy Agency documents that Iran was recently testing sophisticated weapons...
Already 19.6 percent of all the United States’ energy comes from nuclear sources, and although the most recent plant to come online did so in 1977, the green proponents are pushing for a wave of new construction. According to the Department of Energy website, the Nuclear Power 2010 program unveiled in 2002 “has succeeded in building momentum toward a ‘nuclear renaissance’ in which nuclear plants are effective options for zero-carbon electricity production.” Together with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, this program put in place...
...early site permit” component allows firms to receive government approval for their proposed site prior to making their final go-ahead decision. The program sets up a mechanism for firms to simultaneously obtain construction and operating licenses, with the latter conditional on the plant being built to specification. Furthermore, specific provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 offer tax breaks, cost-over run aid (up to $2 billion for the first six new nuclear power plants), and various types of loan guarantees...
...shelf-lined wall near the kitchen hang numerous plant-like ceramic pieces, along with a similar collection of fantastic ceramic intestinal worms. Though they could easily pass for just another set of artsy decorations, Berry explains that the pieces represent the evolutionary phenomenon of adaptive radiation. “Think of the Galápagos finches, where you have one ancestor arriving on an empty island and then you have multiple different species spawned off from the ancestor,” Berry explains. “You take one original thing, and then you have variations...
...team will periodically add fertilizer and measure plant coverage throughout the summer to assess the success of the new test plots, said Julia K. Africa, Werthmann’s research assistant...