Indian Point nuclear power plant - Indian Point nuclear power plant The Indian Point nuclear power plant is located in Buchanan, New York just south of Peekskill, New York on the banks of the Hudson River approximately 35 miles north of New York City. The plant, which includes two operating nuclear reactors, is owned and operated by Entergy Nuclear Northeast, a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation; Entergy also owns the intact decommissioned Indian Point 1 reactor and several on-site gas turbines. Activists have been calling for the shutdown of Indian Point since 1979 when a near meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania demonstrated the possible dangers of placing nuclear reactors near areas of heavy population density. Since September 11, 2001 there has been renewed interest in mothballing the plant..
List of nuclear plants - List of nuclear plants Major nuclear facilities of the world, by country (and for pages not yet built, external links). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bulgaria 2 Canada 3 France 4 Germany 5 Greece 6 Israel 7 Russia 8 Spain 9 South Africa 10 Ukraine 11 United Kingdom 12 United States Bulgaria Kozlodui Canada Bruce Nuclear Power Plant, Ontario Chalk River, Ontario Gentilly Point Lepreau, New Brunswick Pickering Nuclear Power Station, Ontario ICJT list France Superphoenix, Malville ICJT list Germany Biblis with Biblis-A and Biblis-B Brokdorf Brunsbüttel Emsland Grafenrheinfeld Grohnde Gundremmingen with Gundremmingen-B and Grundremmingen-C, A is defunct Isar nuclear plant with Isar-1 and Isar-2 Krümmel Neckarwestheim with Neckarwestheim-1 and Neckarwestheim-2 Obrigheim Philippsburg with Philippsburg-1 and Philippsburg-2 Unterweser Now defunct down plants include: Research nuclear plants in.
Geography of Afghanistan - winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains - the Hindu Kush and connected ranges; plains in north and southwest Elevation extremes: lowest point: Amu Darya 258 m highest point: Nowshak 7,485 m Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones Land use: arable land: 12.13% permanent crops: 0.22% permanent pastures: n/a forests and woodland: n/a other: 87.65% (1998 est.) Irrigated land: 23.860 sq km (1998 est.) Natural hazards: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding , droughts Environment - current issues: Limited natural fresh water resources; inadequate supply of potted water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials);desertification; air and water pollution Environment - international agreements:.
February 15 - old Red Ensign standard. 1970 - A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo killing 102 1971 - Decimalization of British coinage completed. 1982 - The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers. 1989 - Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops had left Afghanistan. 1991 - The Visegard Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. 1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems. 2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vents a small amount of radioactive steam.
Background history of the September 11, 2001 attacks - 1972: The North tower of the World Trade Center is completed. 1973: The South tower of the World Trade Center is completed. 1979: Iran is taken over by fundamentalist Shi'ite Islamists, led by Ayatollah Khomeini. The country proceeds from one extreme to another, eradicating all Western influence, setting up a radical theocracy and beginning to back radical Islamic forces all through the region. 1979: A communist government comes to power in Afghanistan, has Soviet backing. United States and Pakistan support the mujahadeen militarily in opposition (secretly at first), then the Soviet Union invades and gets involved in a long, fruitless war. Osama bin Laden joins the fight through the Saudi Arabian government. 1983: United States troops go to Lebanon as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force. The U.S. withdraws after.
September 2003 - be deterred by such threats. The identity of the speaker on the audio tape or the authenticity of the tape has not been verified. The message was attributed to al-Qaida's second-ranking leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, and was aired on Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya. [1] [1] [1] Space - Technology: NASA outlines plans for the Space Shuttle’s Replacement, a "Space Taxi". The next-generation space vehicle is on the drawing boards now and NASA has just issued newly defined requirements. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Iraqi security forces and United States military police in Tikrit launch a hunt for guerrillas behind a series of deadly attacks on coalition troops — the largest-ever joint military operation to date. During the raids, dozens of soldiers from the United States Army's 720th Military Police Battalion backed up over 200.
November 2003 - [1] The Japanese government announces its intention to temporarily nationalize regional bank Ashikaga Bank after inspections show that it is insolvent; the cost may exceed $9 billion. [1] Iribnews.com reports that Georgia's parliament has elected Tedo Dzhaparidze as the new foreign minister. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Two South Korean civilians working for a US firm are killed on a highway near Tikrit. There is evidence that the tuberculosis drug D-cycloserine may be the first effective agent for the treatment of phobias. [1] Pakistan is to end a ban on Indian flights over its territory, in another sign of improving relations between the neighbours [1] Nathaniel Jones, a 41-year old, 350-lb unarmed black man dies after being clubbed by police with metal truncheons in Cincinnati, Ohio. [1] Six police officers are suspended.
Fusion power - Fusion power Fusion power is the technique of extracting net energy from a nuclear fusion reaction. Technically, most forms of power generation are indirectly fusion-powered, since the Sun is an extremely large natural fusion reactor and its radiation drives most energetic phenomena here on Earth, but the term is usually only used to refer to artificially sustained nuclear fusion. Some suggested advantages of commercial fusion reactors as power producers are: An effectively inexhaustible supply of fuelâat essentially zero cost on an energy production scale; A fuel supply that is available from the oceans to all countries and therefore cannot be interrupted by other nations; No possibility of nuclear runaway; No chemical combustion products as effluents; No afterheat cooling problem in case of an accidental loss of coolant;.
Nuclear reactor - Nuclear reactor Nuclear power station at Leibstadt, Switzerland A nuclear reactor is an apparatus in which nuclear fission chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a contained rate. Nuclear reactors are used for providing heat for electricity generation, domestic and industrial heating, desalination, and naval propulsion, for providing neutron beams for research purposes, and for making radioactive isotopes. Although the term 'nuclear reactor' could also refer to a power reactor that utilizes nuclear fusion, the term is used almost exclusively to refer to fission devices. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Types of reactors 1.1 Technical differences 1.2 Current families of reactors 1.3 Obsolete types still in service 1.4 Advanced reactors 2 Nuclear fuel cycle 3 History 4 Benefits and Disadvantages 4.5 Environmental concerns 4.6 Economic.
Nuclear thermal rocket - Nuclear thermal rocket In a nuclear thermal rocket a working fluid, usually hydrogen, is heated in a high temperature nuclear reactor, and then expands through a nozzle to create thrust. The nuclear reactor's energy replaces the chemical energy of the reactive chemicals in a traditional rocket engine. Due to the high energy of the nuclear reactions compared to chemical ones, the resulting effeciency of the engine is at least twice as good, and even higher for advanced designs. A nuclear thermal rocket can be categorized by the construction of its reactor. The most typical type uses a conventional (albiet light-weight) reactor running at high temperatures to heat the working fluid that is moving through the reactor core. This is known as the solid-core design, and is.
Nuclear meltdown - Nuclear meltdown A nuclear meltdown occurs when the core of a nuclear reactor melts. In pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors, and breeder reactors, this can occur after a loss of coolant accident in which emergency cooling systems fail. Although the emergency systems are designed to reinsert the control rods and stop the fission reaction in the event of an emergency, radioactive decay from the reaction products will continue to generate heat in the absence of coolant and fission reactions. This heat will cause the reactor core to melt within an hour after coolant is stopped. What happens at this point is the subject of conjecture and, perhaps fortunately, little actual experience. The worst case scenario would be if the molten reactor core penetrates the containment.
John Poindexter - due to his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. In protest against what he feels is Poindexter's plan to effect the systematic destruction of Americans' civil liberties and privacy rights, San Francisco Weekly columnist Matt Smith published John Poindexter's home address and phone number on November 27, 2002, along with the names and addresses of his next door neighbors. The meme quickly propagated through the Internet, and Poindexter's phone number was disconnected shortly thereafter. Background: B.S., Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1958 M.S., Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1961 Ph.D., Nuclear Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1964 From 1958 to 1987 Poindexter served the U.S. Navy in various positions. As Deputy Commander of Naval Education and Training Command, amongst his duties of commanding the U.S. Navy's extensive education and training programs, he initiated.
Geography of Ethiopia - country has a high central plateau that varies from 1,800 to 3,000 meters (6,000-10,000 feet) above sea level, with some mountains reaching 4,620 meters (15,158 feet). Elevation is generally highest just before the point of descent to the Great Rift Valley, which splits the plateau diagonally. A number of rivers cross the plateau--notably the Blue Nile rising from Lake Tana. The plateau gradually slopes to the lowlands of the Sudan on the west and the Somali-inhabited plains to the southeast. The climate is temperate on the plateau and hot in the lowlands. At Addis Ababa, which ranges from 2,200 to 2,600 meters (7,000-8,500 feet), maximum temperature is 26C (80°F) and minimum 4C (40°F). The weather is usually sunny and dry with the short (belg) rains occurring February-April and the big (meher).
Economy of the United Arab Emirates - investment authority--which controls the investments of Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest emirate--manages an estimated $150 billion in overseas investments. More than 200 factories operate at the Jebel Ali complex in Dubai, which includes a deep-water port and a free trade zone for manufacturing and distribution in which all goods for re-export or transshipment enjoy a 100% duty exemption. A major power plant with associated water desalination units, an aluminum smelter, and a steel fabrication unit are prominent facilities in the complex. Except in the free trade zone, the UAE requires at least 51% local citizen ownership in all businesses operating in the country as part of its attempt to place Emiratis into leadership positions. As a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the UAE participates in the wide range of GCC.
December 2002 - President Hugo Chavez traveled to the port to supervise the unloading of 525,000 barrels of gasoline. Gasoline is restricted due to a strike at Petroleos de Venezuela, SA (PdVSA), the state-owned oil company, which is aimed at forcing President Chavez to call early elections. Crude oil futures on the New York market rose to $33 a barrel because of the Venezuelan oil strike and fears of war with Iraq. December 29, 2002 The Kenyan electoral commission confirms that the opposition National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) has won landslide victories over the ruling KANU party in Friday's elections, ending 40 years of single party rule and 24 years of rule by Daniel arap Moi. The NARC's presidential candidate, Mwai Kibaki, led by more than 30 percentage points over the KANU's official candidate. [1].
August 2003 - town of Shkin) near the Pakistani border. Taliban reinforcements moved into mountainous region in southern Afghanistan where U.S. and Afghan forces have been attacking hideouts in a battle over the past week. [1] August 30, 2003 Software patents: After protests, the European Parliament has postponed its decision about legality of patents on software in the European Union from September 1st to September 22nd. [1] WTO deal to allow poor countries to bypass drug patents and import cheap copies to treat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. [1] Natural disaster: French official first report from the Institut de Veille Sanitaire was presented to Jean-François Mattei (Health Minister). It reports 11,500 more deaths than the previous three years would be due to the heat wave of early August. It had previously been suggested that the.
Current events - Hong Kong official into custody over suspicion of espionage for United Kingdom. [1] January 15, 2004 The United Nations sides with the United States on voting in Iraq. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other UN officials call direct elections in advance of July 2004 impractical, due to continuing disorder in Iraq and other factors. [1] 30,000 Shiite protesters in Basra call for immediate country-wide elections in Iraq, a move that would give them more power than the UN-backed plan for regional caucuses mandated by the US-led coalition[1] South Korea's foreign minister Yoon Young-kwan resigns after a controversy in which his ministry was accused of diverging from the government's policy of increased independence from the United States. [1] The European Union asks the World Trade Organization for authorization to impose trade sanctions against.
The Domination - cars. However, the Union still wins the Civil War, and annexes Walker's central American empire, along with Hawaii, the Caribbean islands and the Philippines. All these territories eventually give the United States a total of 62 states. In World War I the Dominion of the Draka loyally joins the Allied side, and conquers the Ottoman Empire, before declaring independence from Britain, renaming itself the Domination of the Draka. It then takes advantage of the Russian Civil War to take over much of Central Asia, and partitions China with the Japanese Empire. At this stage, under the influence of Draka philosophers such as Elvira Naldorssen, the traditional Draka white-supremacism is replaced by Draka-supremacism, with the Draka viewing all of non-Drakan humanity as their cattle. Elvira explains the ideology of the Domination, the.
May 2003 - Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, replacing retiring leader Joe Clark. May 30, 2003 The election for leader of Britain's largest general trade union, the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), is won convincingly by Tony Woodley, a left-winger. Iraqi Airways' management announces the airline plans to resume international services soon. May 29, 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster: NASA officials release experimental findings proving that the insulation known to have hit the leading edge of Columbia's left wing could have created a gap in between protective heat panels. [1] A Russian nuclear energy company founded a branch to promote its bid for Finland's new nuclear power plant. Competing bids have been submitted by French-German company Framatome and General Electric. Finnish power company TVO will make its selection in the autumn at the.
Islands of Michigan - Hickory Island, southern end of Grosse Ile Higgins Island, High Island, Lake Michigan Hog Island, Lake Michigan Huron Island, Lake Superior, has lighthouse Indian Island, Lake Erie Ile Aux Galets, Lake Michigan, location of Skillagalee Lighthouse Isle Royale a national park in Lake Superior Katechay Island, in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron Les Cheneaux Islands, group of 36 inhabited islands in Lake Huron Lime Island, in St. Mary's River Little Charity Island, in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron Little Summer Island, Lake Michigan Long Island Mackinac Island, inhabited island in Lake Huron Manitou Island, Lake Superior, site of lighthouse Marquette Island, Lake Huron, one of the Le Cheneaux group Michigan Islands National Wildlife Reserve Middle Island, Lake Huron Mud Island, part of Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Nauibinaway Island, Lake Michigan, site of.
