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• Foreign Policy magazine: "Blame Canada" for isotope shortage

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 562
  A leading American publication offers a critical piece on Canadas bungling of the isotope crisis: "The Missing Element." It tells the tale of how the world came to rely on Canada for isotopes, mainly from the U.S. perspective. The Harper government comes in for some not so subtle criticism: The governments handling ...
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• Global Warming Could Lead to Another Ice Age, Scientists Say

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  According to isotope biogeochemist William Patterson at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, global warming could result in a catastrophic plunge in temperatures resulting in a North American deep freeze.
  1 week ago

• Canadian government inches closer to coherent nuclear strategy

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 106
  H ow should Canada resolve the medical isotope crisis? A new report , commissioned by the federal government, says we should build a new multi-purpose research reactor which can produce isotopes on the side.  Though this is the most expensive of the options presented in the report, the authors point out the ...
  1 week ago

• Isotope expert panel weighs in with a challenge for the Harper government

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 562
  Lisa Raitts expert panel with their long term solutions to the isotope shortage issue has finally weighed in . Finally, as in, its been since June that this panel has been conducting its consideration of what Canada should do for the long run. A convenient dodge its been, but in the meantime, critical shortages in ...
  2 weeks ago

• 96. What to look for in gloves

  
  Calculatus Eliminatus: A Men's Fashion Blog — Authority: 112
  A pair of well-made gloves are clutch for a brisk fall day in New York or a bitterly cold winter morning in Vermont. But they shouldnt cost you a nickle, dime, and a $100 bill... Emporio Armani leather gloves 1747 - brown INFEASIBLE: Really expensive leather gloves Leather gloves are the way to go ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small Bead Polymer Reduces the Amount of Radioactive Waste Generated by Nuclear Power Plants

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 430
  The disposal of the old core rods and also the reactor operation results in a large amount of low-level waste, especially contaminated cooling water. But nuclear power could solve our energy problem if only we could find a way to make it clean.
  2 weeks ago

• Kaiga nuke leak, a malevolent act: Kakodkar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Mallapur (Karnataka), Nov.29 (ANI): Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar on Sunday said the leakage at the Kaiga nuclear plant here, which left 55 persons sick with radioactive poisoning, appears to have been a malevolent act of a disgruntled employee.Kakodkar said the reactor was now functioning normally ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kaiga nuke leak, a malevolent act: Kakodkar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Mallapur (Karnataka), Nov.29 (ANI): Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar on Sunday said the leakage at the Kaiga nuclear plant here, which left 55 persons sick with radioactive poisoning, appears to have been a malevolent act of a disgruntled employee.Kakodkar said the reactor was now functioning normally ...
  2 weeks ago

• Radiation leak at Kaiga nuke plant leaves 55 sick

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Mallapur (Karnataka), Nov 29 (ANI): A radiation leak at the Kaiga Nuclear Plant in Karnataka’s north Kannada district has left 55 employees in the maintenance unit falling sick in the suspected radiation poisoning.The sick employees are being treated for increased level of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen ...
  2 weeks ago

• No harm to public from Kaiga atomic plant leak: official

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bangalore, Nov 29 (IANS) Contamination of drinking water by radiation at the state-run Kaiga atomic power plant in northwest Karnataka has been contained to avert harm to the public, health and environment, a senior official said Sunday.“The water cooler, which was contaminated by a radioactive element (Tritium) was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supervolcano eruption in Sumatra deforested India 73,000 years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, November 24 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have come across what they call “incontrovertible evidence” that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter.The volcano ejected an estimated 800 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Impact of the medical isotope shortage (video)

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 562
  A video put out by a group called " United for a Secure Stable Supply ," advocating for Canadian medical isotope production. From their press release: The global medical isotope shortage began in May 2009, when Canada announced that its 52-year-old nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, would be closed for repairs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Widetronix goes nuclear to build a 25-year battery

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  A company called Widetronix has developed a 25-year battery. Reminiscent of Heinlein’s micro-fission reactors that could be worn on a belt, beta voltaic battery cells last 25 years or more, using semiconductors to turn high energy electrons known as beta particles thrown off by radioactive decay into a usable ...
  4 weeks ago

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