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Super Hurricane Sandy threatened 9 US nuclear power plants
The US government is sending more supervisors to nine nuclear power plants in areas where super typhoon Sandy spills over to ensure that the storm will not cause problem…
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New York is dark after super typhoon Sandy
Suddenly separated from the outside world, America's most populous city experienced another life after super typhoon Sandy: no subway, no horizon of lights and no food s…
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Detection of ultra-high levels of radiation at Fukushima 1
On October 10, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced measurements at the No.1 reactor of the Fukushima 1 Power Plant, whereby the radioactive concentration meas…
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Strong earthquakes have never been seen in Quang Nam
At 20h42 on October 22, a super strong 4.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the administrative center of Pak Po in Nam Tra My district (about 30km from Song Tranh 2 hydropowe…
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Sadly, waste that can be recycled or reused is left to the ground to decompose, or if it is non-biodegradable, they stay there forever. To help solve the problem, a team…
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6 best biofuel types
Biofuels - formed from plant-animal-derived compounds - are hailed as a safe and clean energy source for future pollution reduction. But do they really bring full benefi…
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The temperature warms up, the fossil forest revives
The fossilized forest in the area Island Bylot (Canada) dates back more than 2.5 million years to recover from the warming climate, the researchers said.
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Japan produces electricity from renewable energy
On August 31, Japan's Environment Minister Goshi Hosono announced a new energy strategy to increase electricity output by six times for four renewable energy types by 20…
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Strong vibration near Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant
In the evening of September 3, Tra My town and the surrounding areas in Bac Tra My district (Quang Nam) appeared vibrations that made people afraid. This is an earthquak…
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France: Incident at Fessenheim nuclear power plant
On the afternoon of September 5, an incident occurred at the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, in the Haut-Rhin region of France that caused two people to suffer minor bur…
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Hong Kong produces biodiesel from waste oil
Hong Kong entrepreneurs and investors from the Netherlands and the Middle East are currently cooperating to build a plant that converts waste oils into biodiesel.
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China invested in building 5 nuclear plants in the UK
China is ready to create a new revolution in the energy sector, in the future by investing billions of dollars into building a series of new nuclear power plants in the…
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Antarctica was once warm
In the warm period 52 million years ago, tropical plants were like palm trees, each covering the Antarctic coast. The sediment on the continental shelf near Antarctica h…
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First move nuclear fuel in Fukushima
Japanese media on July 18 reported that workers working at the Daiichi incident nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture for the first time have moved nuclear fuel here sin…
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The first factory produced fuel from algae
The SAT, the name of the Austrian company, will build a plant on a sugarcane plantation in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. This plantation is where ethanol is produce…