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  1. whoosh

    Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor

    Link Removed Tokyo. The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site, the Guardian reported. The...
  2. whoosh

    VIDEO Deadly nuclear levels detected

    RADIATION levels that can prove fatal were detected outside reactor buildings at Japan’s Fukushima No.1 plant for the first time, complicating efforts to contain the worst disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Water in an underground trench outside the No.2 reactor had levels exceeding one sievert...
  3. cybercore

    Japan's Fukushima nuclear engineers are stalled by smoke at the reactor

    Efforts to restore power to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan were stalled by smoke billowing from reactors yesterday. A cable that could allow cooling systems to be restored was attached to reactor No.2 – one of six at the tsunami-hit facility. But engineers had to...
  4. cybercore

    VIDEO Disco dancer breaks world record with 131-hour boogie

    Nightclub owner Steve Stevens is nursing tired limbs after breaking a disco world record by dancing non-stop for more than five days. Steve strained his right knee but managed to keep moving for 131 hours. The 35-year-old set off on Tuesday last week and ended on Sunday at his club...
  5. whoosh

    Bungling, cover-ups define Japanese nuclear power

    TOKYO (AP) — Behind Japan's escalating nuclear crisis sits a scandal-ridden energy industry in a comfy relationship with government regulators often willing to overlook safety lapses. Leaks of radioactive steam and workers contaminated with radiation are just part of the disturbing catalog of...
  6. whoosh

    Japan situation looks 'more serious' than Three Mile Island

    US Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress Wednesday that Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis appears "more serious" than the 1979 Three Mile Island partial reactor meltdown. Chu's comments came in response to a question comparing the incidents from Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky...
  7. whoosh

    Japan Nuclear Accident Sends ‘Shock Wave’ to Europe, Besson Says

    Japan's nuclear accident will spark questioning about the safety and future of nuclear energy in Europe, according to French Industry Minister Eric Besson. “The shock wave of what is happening in Japan will touch Europe and France and there will be a debate of some kind around our energy and...
  8. whoosh

    VIDEO Japan races to prevent nuclear reactor meltdown

  9. whoosh

    Third blast at Japan nuclear plant!

    Link Removed quake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan has been hit by a third explosion in four days, amid fears of a meltdown. The blast occurred at reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which engineers had been trying to stabilise after two other reactors exploded. The protective chamber...
  10. cybercore

    Rods likely melting at Japan plant

    Water drop at one reactor twice left uranium fuel rods exposed, increasing risk of the spread of radiation and potential for a meltdown More Link Removed
  11. whoosh

    Meltdown alert at Japan reactor 14 March 2011 Last updated at 14:23

    Link Removed There have been two explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, following Friday's earthquake and tsunami, and a third reactor is reportedly at risk of fuel-rod meltdown. How great a danger do these problems pose for people in Japan and further afield? Has...
  12. whoosh

    Japan battles to stave off possible nuclear meltdown

    Link Removed A file picture of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant reactor No 7, in Niigata prefecture, Japan, that was damaged in the quake. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA Workers are battling to stave off a possible nuclear meltdown at a plant in north-eastern Japan as the country...
  13. whoosh

    VIDEO Free Energy - Pentagon Conspiracy to Cover up

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  14. News

    KOC among first regional oil, gas firms to use Windows 7 system

    KUWAIT: Microsoft Gulf Microsoft Gulf today announced that Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait Oil Company ( KOC KOC ) has implemented the Windows 7 Enterprise Operating System, the latest version of Microsoft's flagship Operating System, across its entire computing infrastructure In the process, the...
  15. Nibiru2012

    Paul Hellyer - Extremely thought-provoking and highly intelligent. If you're Concerned About the Fa

    NOTE: The main title should have read: ...and The World, .... had a minor brain cramp on that. I encourage any and all who are interested to check out this man's website. I heard a radio interview with him on 8-4-2010 and even though he's now 87 years in maturity, he is extremely lucid and...
  16. whoosh

    Just installed the ATI Radeon HD 5670 Graphics Card

    So quite and easy to install . Just a straight forward install no extra wires to worry about . Low on energy consumption and only takes up one slot . Direct X 11 as well . I am taken with the card . Low cost to buy and needs no extra power boost . Can play todays games and I bet with DirectX 11...
  17. kemical

    Windows 7 UK firm announces battery breakthrough

    UK firm announces battery breakthrough Silicon anode boosts Li-ion capacity By Link Removed - Invalid URL Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 12:18 A LITTLE-KNOWN BRITISH COMPANY has developed a silicon anode that it says can increase the capacity of a Lithium-ion battery by up to 30 per cent...
  18. iroken22

    Windows 7 Powercfg -energy Does not save file

    In the pre beta 6801 build the powercfg -energy command line command saved a file called energy-report.html to the system32 file folder. It worked perfectly. But now in the beta build when i ran the command it successfully runs and i go search for the file and when i search it shows up but says...
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