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WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 13, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Russia and Iran have agreed a schedule for finishing building the Bushehr nuclear plant, reports from Russia say. "Difficulties with the Iranian client are resolved and we have agreement on the timetable for construction," said the state contractor, At.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:49am neoform

USA Today -- —A powerful earthquake toppled drums of nuclear waste and triggered other problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, raising the possibility of a second radioactive leak there, Japanese officials said Tuesday. The earthquake Monday off the Japanes.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 11:54am neoform

BBC News -- Japanese officials have confirmed further leaks of radioactive material from a nuclear power plant following Monday's earthquake in central Japan. In addition to a leak of radioactive water, drums containing nuclear waste burst open and radioactive gas.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 1:48pm neoform

CNN -- A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a radioactive water leak and fire at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants and turning buildings into piles of lumber. At least eight people were killed and hundreds injured... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Mon May 7, 2007 @ 12:15pm neoform

Alter Net -- Nations are racing to plant flags and claim the "new world" of islands and sea routes that are emerging as Arctic ice melts. Recent news reports state that global warming and the shrinking Arctic icecaps are opening new sea lanes and making barren isla.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- The British government will launch an investigation on Wednesday into claims that former nuclear plant workers at a state-owned facility who died in the 1960s and 1970s may have had body parts removed without consent. Unions representing workers in the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 20, 2006 @ 5:08pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions have discovered widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill, officials said Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 21, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- A nuclear plant in Sweden was sealed off Wednesday after a worker was stopped at its entrance with a highly explosive substance, police said. Sven-Erik Karlsson, spokesman for Kalmar County Police, said investigators were questioning the man, a welder.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike, demanding higher pay to keep pace with skyrocketing prices, officials said Tuesday. The workers at Ching Luh plant, in southern Long An provi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Dec 17, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

MSNBC -- Russia has made its first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr plant, which is at the center of the international tensions over Tehran's nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Iran contends the nuclear power plant operation in Bushehr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:50am neoform

BBC News -- A radioactive leak at a major nuclear plant in Japan damaged by an earthquake on Monday was worse than previously thought, the plant's operators say. Owner Tokyo Electric Power company said 50% more radiation was discharged into the sea, following the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:47am neoform

CNN -- The mayor ordered that a nuclear power plant hit by a strong earthquake be shut down Wednesday until its safety could be confirmed after a long list of problems -- including radiation leaks, burst pipes and fires -- came to light. The malfunctions and a d.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

CNN -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is taking the war on drugs to the supermarket, prohibiting the sale of products made from the coca plant. With the help of more than $600 million a year in U.S. aid, Uribe has strengthened Colombia's anti-narcotics poli.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 5, 2007 @ 9:43am neoform

Washington Post -- When it opened here in 2004 on a reclaimed mining dump, the Geosol solar plant was the biggest of its kind in the world. It is so clean and green that it produces zero emissions and so easy to operate that it has only three regular workers: plant manager.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 10:24am neoform

Washington Post -- Wout Kusters, director of a manufacturing plant in the Dutch lowlands, knows something the U.S. Congress needs to know. So does Gervais Pruvost, a laborer in a small cement plant in northern France. So does just about every German homeowner. When you'r.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 3:59pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The Bernard Matthews plant at the centre of the bird flu outbreak will not face prosecution by the government's food regulators, it was announced today. The outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease occurred at the firm's plant in Holton, Suffo.. Read More