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08 Feb 2010

Today's Categories: Hanford Site / DOE around the U.S. / Energy/Science Policy / National/International Science and Technology / Security / Workforce - Health and Safety / Community / Other /

Hanford Site

Vapor concerns stop Hanford tank work

Concerns over chemical vapors from an underground tank have stopped work to retrieve radioactive waste from Tank C-104, the only leak-prone tank currently being emptied at Hanford.

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A tour inside Hanford's nuclear tank farm

HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION, Wash. - The first thing you notice at Hanford's SY Tank Farm Changing Trailer is the constant beeping. That sound will soon be drowned out by the shriek of masking tape being wrapped around every seam on the protective clothing. ... The process of dressing and undressing for a 20 minute visit inside the tank farm takes about an hour.

NWCN.com (Northwest Cable News)05 Feb 2010

DOE around the U.S.

What's next for Yucca? Restoration

When it was on the drawing boards, the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump promised unprecedented challenges to nuclear engineers and physicists: How to safely store nuclear waste underground? Now with the project being killed by President Barack Obama, the site will offer unprecedented challenges to desert ecologists: How to bring vegetation back to the mountain?

Las Vegas SUN07 Feb 2010

Energy/Science Policy

In clean energy, U.S. needs more steel in ground

WASHINGTON - More than scientific breakthroughs, the U.S. needs to deploy existing green technologies faster to keep pace with China and other nations, people in the renewable energy industry said this week.

cnet news06 Feb 2010

EPA Announces New Support for Sustainable Communities New office, pilot programs to help communities minimize their environmental impact and increase economic opportunity

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced three steps to support communities' efforts to provide their citizens' with economic opportunity while reducing impacts on the environment. The actions will encourage state and local government to make their communities more sustainable by strategically aligning their environmental, transportation and housing investments.

EPA News Release05 Feb 2010

NNSA FY2011 Budget A 'Direct and Tangible Display' Of Commitment To Nonproliferation

Speaking to an International Nuclear Materials Monitor (INMM) workshop on the upcoming Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, [National Nuclear Security Administration] Administrator D'Agostino said the 2.7 billion [dollars] President Obama requested for nonproliferation programs - up 25.8 percent from FY2010 - support strengthening global nonproliferation efforts.

NUCLEARSTREET - Nuclear Power Industry News Blog05 Feb 2010

National/International Science and Technology

Space Shuttle Lights Up Night Sky

Hours after Super Bowl fireworks lit up Miami, the Florida night sky was again ablaze as the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in the shuttle program's last, scheduled night launch.

InformationWeek08 Feb 2010

New research at Argonne could help you save on gas bills

Cars are most fuel-efficient when they're driven at full throttle with their RPMs sky-high. Figuring out how to bring those RPMs down and still get the best mileage possible is one of the goals of McConnell and his team in the engine and emissions group at Argonne's Center for Transportation Research.

SOUTHTOWNSTAR (IL)07 Feb 2010

Physicist awarded 750,000 [dollars] to study neutrinos

Virginia Tech physicist Patrick Huber has been named as the recipient of a prestigious Early Career Research Award (ECRA) from the U.S. Department of Energy. Huber, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Science, will receive 750,000 [dollars] for his research on neutrinos in the universe.

nanotechwire.com06 Feb 2010

UC Davis may have solved mystery of chemical contamination

A dangerous chemical on the site of a former animal-testing laboratory at UC Davis may not have come from experiments there, but rather from a chemical reaction underground in the years since.

THE SACRAMENTO BEE (CA)06 Feb 2010R

New Facility Expected to Clarify Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change

Scientists hope to get a glimpse of the future with a proposed experiment facility in northern Minnesota that would allow them to adjust temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide across a broad range of possibilities projected by climate models.

newswise05 Feb 2010

Security

Can battlefield robots take the place of soldiers?

Can war be fought by lots of well-behaved machines, making it "safer for humans?" That is the seductive vision, and hope, of those manufacturing and researching the future of military robotics.

BBC News08 Feb 2010

Iran to build 10 nuclear plants, beef up military

Reporting from Beirut - Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, announced that Tehran has informed the United Nations' nuclear watchdog that it intends to launch construction of 10 new nuclear fuel plants in the Persian calendar year starting March 2010 and begin producing 20% enriched uranium to provide fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.

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Russia says U.S. missile plans hamper nuclear arms cuts talks

Washington's continued efforts to build a missile defense shield in Europe have complicated nuclear arms reduction talks with Russia, Russia's deputy prime minister said on Saturday.

RIANOVOSTI06 Feb 2010

Terrorists 'gaining upper hand in cyber war'

Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned.

The INDEPENDENT (UK)06 Feb 2010

Workforce - Health and Safety

OSHA Reports Health and Safety Tips for Older Workers from Leading Experts

"Not surprisingly," says [Ken] Nogan [Certified Safety Professional], "as people age, their skills and faculties, including strength, range of motion, motor skills, sensory acuity, and ability to heal, diminish." While it seems these changes may have a negative effect on productivity and safety, statistics tell a different story.

GTR Newspapers (Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers)07 Feb 2010

WISHA [Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act]: Workplace Violence Deaths Up Last Year

Thirteen on-the-job homicides and seven workplace suicides last year accounted for about one-third of the 62 total fatalities resulting from work-related injuries in 2009 in Washington State.

OH&S Occupationa Health & Safety 07 Feb 2010

U.S. Flu and Cold Cases Remain Lower Than One Year Ago

WASHINGTON, D.C. - For three consecutive months, fewer American adults reported having the flu compared with the corresponding months from one year ago, according to data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

GALLUP05 Feb 2010

What's Next for Parity-Part I

Although the federal mental health parity law became fully effective January 1, work remains to ensure the law works as Congress and advocates intended.

Psychology Today (blog)05 Feb 2010

Community

Clean energy backers tout jobs at Tri-City conference

KENNEWICK - The expansion of clean energy represents the next major source of economic development and job growth in Washington, and the Tri-Cities is at the epicenter, a Washington congressman said Sunday.

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Other

Tech makes Olympic-size jump in Vancouver

The 2010 Winter Games aren't just about athletes breaking records and reaching new heights in their respective sports. They're also a venue for breakthroughs in science, technology, and energy efficiency.

cnet news08 Feb 2010

A big rocket is still a US priority - Bolden

Nasa chief Charlie Bolden holding forth on the future of human spaceflight.

BBC News blog07 Feb 2010

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