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U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:21am mrmdc

Associated Press -- A small bar of radium is missing from a former uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Tuesday. The radioactive ingot, about the size of a medical gel capsule and stored in a glass vial, is not a health or secu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- It was swift and chaotic, witnesses said, as the plastics plant worker with a determined look opened fire, killing five co-workers then himself in rural western Kentucky. A man who called 911 from the plant described the violent scene early Wednesday w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- An unknown number of men were being held at the ranch while authorities completed the search of the gleaming 80-foot-high temple, a cheese-making plant, a cement plant, a school, a doctor's office and housing units. Church lawyer Patrick Peranteau did.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- A chemical fire ignited at a hydroelectric plant outside this mountain town and five workers who were trapped in an empty water tunnel there were found dead, authorities said Tuesday. Crews went in from the bottom of the tunnel to put out the fire and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

Washington Post -- The first application to build a new U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades has been filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, bumping a proposed third unit at a Calvert County site to the front of a list of reactors being considered by the nuclear.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 10:30pm neoform

FOX News -- Federal immigration agents raided a poultry plant Tuesday morning and arrested more than 100 workers who are believed to be illegal immigrants. Most of those arrested at the George's processing plant in rural Butterfield were from Mexico, Guatemala, Ho.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

Knoxville News Sentinal -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission revealed in a new report to Congress that a nuclear chain-reaction accident nearly occurred 14 months ago at a nuclear fuels processing plant in Tennessee. About 35 liters, or just over 9 gallons, of highly enriched ur.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:34am neoform

SF Gate -- Fresno, a fast-growing former farming community popularly associated with raisins, is seeking a higher-tech image -- as the future home of a nuclear power plant that could supply power for 1.6 million to 2 million homes. "Nuclear power holds great prom.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:44am neoform

Denver Post -- James Stone was disturbed by the things he had seen while working at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, including overflowing hazardous waste "lagoons" and a plan to stabilize toxic wastes by mixing them with cement. The engineer took 2,300 pages o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 1:01pm mrmdc

FOX News -- North Dakota issued the nation's first licenses to grow industrial hemp Tuesday to two farmers who still must meet federal requirements before they can plant the crop... Read More