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China launching thorium-based molten salt reactor system

by Paul Garrett Hugel on March 21, 2011 with No Comments

China’s Academy of Sciences said it had chosen a “thorium-based molten salt reactor system”. The liquid fuel idea was pioneered by US physicists at Oak Ridge National Lab in the 1960s, but the US has long since dropped the ball. … Read More

'Happy Feet' penguins found covered in oil after shipwreck on UK island RT @Earth_News http://bit.ly/fPdzeF

by Paul Garrett Hugel on March 21, 2011 with No Comments

RT @Earth_News A wrecked ship has grounded on Nightingale Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha UK overseas territory in the South Atlantic, causing an oil slick around the island which is home to nearly half the world’s population of … Read More

Fukushima: Very high levels of radioactive iodine have been detected in the tap water

by Paul Garrett Hugel on March 20, 2011 with No Comments

CNN Reports: [5:18 a.m. Monday ET, 6:18 p.m. Monday Tokyo] Very high levels of radioactive iodine have been detected in the tap water at Iitake village, part of the same Fukushima prefecture where the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is … Read More

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