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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission suspended final decisions on licenses for power plants until it completes a reassessment of risks related to storing spent atomic fuel ordered by a federal court in June. ... Entergy Corp. (ETR)’s Indian Point power plant north of New York City is “next in line’” for renewal of its U.S. license, while Duke Energy Corp. (DUK)’s application is close to getting a license for construction and operation of reactors in Levy County, Florida, Burnell said.

“They weren’t expected to reach final decisions until well into 2013,” Burnell said in the e-mail.

The NRC’s rules on permanent storage of nuclear waste failed to fully evaluate risks and new standards must be drafted, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled on June 8 in throwing out the agency’s regulations.

The NRC action freezes nine construction and operating licenses, eight renewals, an operating license and an early site permit, according to a statement from 24 groups led by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League in Knoxville, Tennessee, that asked the NRC to halt the process.

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Kaspersky security analysts have identified another cyber-threat (PDF) targeting the Middle East as part of ongoing research into Flame. Named Gauss, it displays all the hallmarks of being part of the same family as Flame (Stuxnet, Duqu) and is compromising financial account and log in information from computer users accessing Lebanese banks, as well as reporting hardware configurations to its creators.

"Gauss is a nation state sponsored banking Trojan which carries a warhead of unknown designation. Besides stealing various kinds of data from infected Windows machines, it also includes an unknown, encrypted payload which is activated on certain specific system configurations," said Kaspersky.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The USA and Israel wrote Stuxnet and Flame. There was a "deactivation" code embedded in Flame which the Israelis supposedly eliminated, which is how the Flame virus got into the wild. Banking seems to be the next target.

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Originally posted by Niki2:

As to the idiocy posted by "someone":

Offshore drilling: "President Obama said Tuesday that he will open more than 75% of potential offshore oil and gas resources to exploration"...

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Keystone Pipeline: "President Obama visited an oil repository in the solidly red state of Oklahoma today to announce plans to fast-track the southern leg of the controversial Keystone pipeline. '“I am directing my administration to cut through red tape, break through bureaucratic hurdles and make this project a priority,' the president said. Obama announced a new Executive Order that would make permitting the southern leg of the pipeline a top priority."

So much for that bullshit.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
That chart would look quite a bit different the minute something massive happens, and everyone knows it.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
That chart would look quite a bit different the minute something massive happens, and everyone knows it.

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The worst nuclear disaster to date is Fukishima, run by private enterprise, I believe?

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And they lied a LOT about what happened. And a lot of people will die because they didn't tell people what they knew and had too small a "safe zone" around it after the accident.

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I never argued coal over nuclear, or gas over coal or anything else. I don't want ANY of them...

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Originally posted by Geezer:
But you're stuck with them. Solar and wind are gonna be limited until a way of storing electrical energy cheaply and in massive amounts becomes available, which isn't much out of the concept stage now.

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An amorphous metal transformer (AMT) is a type of energy efficient transformer found on electric grids.[1] The magnetic core of this transformer is made with an amorphous metal (e.g. Metglas), containing ferromagnetic elements such as iron, or cobalt alloyed with a glass former such as of boron, silicon, or phosphorus. These materials have high magnetic susceptibility, with low coercivity and high electrical resistance. The high resistance leads to low losses by eddy currents when subjected to alternating magnetic fields, a property particularly useful in transformers. Typically, core loss can be 70–80% less than with traditional crystalline materials. This leads to a reduction of generation requirement and, when using electric power generated from fossil fuels, less CO2 emissions.It has been widely adopted by large developing countries such as China and India where energy conservation and CO2 emission reduction have been put on priority. These two countries can potentially save 25–30 TWh electricity annually, eliminate 6-8 GW generation investment, and reduce 20–30 million tons of CO2 emission by fully utilizing this technology.

As one of the major programs to improve grid efficiency, China has started to install amorphous metal transformers in a number of energy intensive provinces since 2005. Over 20,000 MVA of such transformers are installed every year. This movement has also led to the successful development and production of amorphous metal ribbon in China

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Originally posted by 1kiki:

And then there's conservation:

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Now WAAAaaayyyy back in 2007 a study was done that concluded we already have the technology we need to stop global warming - we just have to use it.

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