Q&A on the News

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

Q: What is our current U.S. safety benchmark for new nuclear power plants regarding a crash of a commercial airliner, and what level of protection is the Plant Vogtle expansion designed for? -Bernie Kraemer, Duluth A: The ...
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Source: this WEEK in TECH

Blue Angels, TCHO-A-Day chocolate, a SmartCart, Logitech iPad keyboard, V8 powered barstool, and more. Guess who's buying Opera, Google buys Palm sort of, an 80-inch Windows tablet, and more. AMD nat making "Needlessly Powerful C ...
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Radioactive ATM

Source: About.com: Inventors

Well, just slightly radioactive. According to a BBC News report, the world's first ATM was installed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, North London. At that time plastic atm cards did not exist. The Barclay atm m ...
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Guess who's buying Opera, Google buys Palm sort of, an 80-inch Windows tablet, and more. AMD nat making "Needlessly Powerful CPUs",I ntel's Going Green, XFX the kings of the midrange GPU, Unreal 4 screenshots, and more. Googarol ...
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Galactic Invasion: How to Make a Wireless Robot Rocket Launcher

Source: Wonder How To

If you're like me, you were always jealous of the kids with rich parents who got to ride around in their own Power Wheels cars. Now that I am tall enough to sell my body and time, I find myself attaining childhood dre ...
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Fukushima nuke cleanup could take 40 years

Source: FOX Sports

Goshi Hosono, Japan's environment minister, shows reporters the fuel rod pool at Fukushima's No. 4 reactor on Saturday. FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Amid concerns of a new disaster should a quake destroy the pool cooling off radioactive nuclear fu ...
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Video: Iran nuclear inspectors reportedly make alarming discovery

Source: MSNBC

>>> a potentially alarming discovery but nuclear inspectors in iran . the united nations weapons inspectors found traces of radioactivity and underground bunker in iran that could mean that iran has moved closer to reaching the u ...
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Iran site yields radioactivity

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

VIENNA - Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday - a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles. In a report by ...
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Guess who's buying Opera, Google buys Palm sort of, an 80-inch Windows tablet, and more. AMD nat making "Needlessly Powerful CPUs",I ntel's Going Green, XFX the kings of the midrange GPU, Unreal 4 screenshots, and more. Googarola ...
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