Use of toxic acid puts millions at risk

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

A 2009 explosion in Corpus Christ sheds light on danger of toxic acid cloud

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"… owed otherwise.Safely ensconced in a building about a mile away, Livermore physicist Ronald Koopman and his colleagues opened computer-controlled valves on a t …"

Contrary to NRC, U.S. nuclear plants may face similar risks to those in Japan

By Laurel Adams

Documents show internal dispute between NRC staff and top brass over nuclear safety

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"… privately NRC senior analysts are not so sure,” said Edwin Lyman, a UCS physicist and expert on nuclear plant design.One of the plans in SOARCA focused on a …"

International cloning timeline

By Alexander Cohen

Tracking embryo research and cloning efforts from 1996 to 2004
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Nuclear miscalculation: Why regulators miss power plant threats from quakes and storms

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Recent spate of ‘unlikely’ events - storms, hurricane and a quake - expose peril of relying on computer models in securing nuclear plants

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"… ry possibilities, humans are much more complicated,” said M.V. Ramana, a physicist at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Prince …"

"… ame they’re using to lower the regulatory burden,” said Edwin Lyman, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.Nuclear safety experts say tough en …"

"… people had to use a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation,” explained physicist Ramana. “As a result, engineers had a much better intuitive understandin …"

Californian spends $44 million, loses ballot initiative fight

By Paul Abowd

Failed ballot initiatives attracted millions in spending from siblings with differing political views.

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"… al grant the city received last year.Munger outspent her brother, Stanford physicist Charles Munger Jr., a Republican activist who shelled out $23 million on b …"

DOE inspector general recommends consolidating national labs

By Douglas Birch

DOE inspector general recommends the nation's 16 national atomic labs be streamlined or shut down.

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"… civilian contracting agency in the federal government. Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City University of New York and spokesman for the American Physical …"