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UN nuclear watchdog in Tehran talks amid sanctions calls
Tehran (AFP) Aug 7, 2008The UN atomic watchdog's number two held a new round of talks on Thursday on Iran's nuclear drive as Western governments said the time had come for the Security Council to impose more sanctions. Olli Heinonen, deputy head of the International Atomic Energency Agency (IAEA), met nuclear officials a day after six world powers discussed Tehran's response to their offer to resolve the nuclear ... more Rice threatens sanctions on Iran over nuclear program 
Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Iran with more sanctions Thursday after it failed to give an adequate response to the latest bid by Western powers to induce it to freeze uranium enrichment. "Iran has a way out if they ever wish, but we will seriously pursue sanctions if they don't," Rice told Yahoo! News and the magazine Politico. "You have to hope that there are reasons ... more Key US lawmaker threatens to hold up India nuclear deal 
Washington (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A key US lawmaker threatened Wednesday to hold up a landmark US-India nuclear agreement unless nuclear supplier states adopt a provision terminating the deal if India conducted a nuclear test explosion. Howard Berman, chairman of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee, said if the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) did not impose such a condition, the deal could not be a ... more Boeing Awarded E-6B Upgrade Contract 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 08, 2008Boeing has been awarded a $28.8 million sole-source U.S. Navy contract to upgrade the service's fleet of 16 E-6B airborne command, control and communications aircraft. In support of ongoing E6-B spiral development activities, the first phase of the Internet Protocol Bandwidth Expansion program will use commercial-off-the-shelf technology to increase the aircraft's wideband communications ... more Pentagon mounts 2.2 bln dlr push for war zone surveillance 
Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2008The Pentagon is mounting a 2.2 billion dollar effort to dramatically expand surveillance of Iraq and Afghanistan by manned and unmanned spy planes, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Congress has approved the reprogramming of 1.2 billion dollars in defense funds to rapidly enhance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection in the war zones, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Aug 7, 2008 The more concessions the "Iran Six" nations of the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the People's Republic of China make to the Islamic Republic of Iran on the nuclear issue, the more capricious political leaders in Tehran become. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually has made the Islamic Republic's nuclear program a hostage of his campaign for the 2009 ... more Japan says US sub leaked radiation for two years 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 7, 2008A US nuclear-powered submarine leaked radioactive water for two years, during which it made almost a dozen stops in Japan at three different ports, the Japanese government said Thursday. The USS Houston steadily leaked a small amount of radiation from June 2006 until it was put in drydock in Hawaii last month, Japan's foreign ministry said, quoting information from the US authorities. ... more Pakistani intelligence complicit in Afghan violence: US general 
Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2008The top US commander in Afghanistan Thursday publicly accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate of "some complicity" over time with militant groups fomenting violence in Afghanistan. Lieutenant General David McKiernan's comment in an interview with CNN was the most unambiguous statement yet on the matter by a senior US military officer, reflecting growing US frustration ... more ATK Receives US Army Tank Ammunition Contract 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 08, 2008Alliant Techsystems has announced that it has received a $7.6 million initial contract from the U.S. Army for the M1028 120mm Canister Cartridge. The contract also includes four additional option years that could raise the total value of the contract to more than $30 million if all production options are exercised. The M1028 is the latest addition to the ammunition suite for the M1A1/A2 ... more Little light at end of tunnel a year after credit market derailed 
Washington (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A year has passed since the credit crunch first jolted financial markets, but there still appears to be little light at the end of the tunnel despite emergency measures taken by the US authorities. What started out as a collapse in the US housing market, worsened last year as increasing numbers of subprime, or high-risk, mortgage holders defaulted on their loans, contaminating the wider ... more |
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Wahsington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2008High food prices, concern over dwindling supplies of fossil fuels and the desire for clean, renewable energy have led many to seek ways to make ethanol out of cellulosic sources such as wood, hay and switchgrass. But today's processes are notoriously inefficient. In a new paper, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have detailed some of the most ... more Miscanthus Can Meet US Biofuels Goal 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 08, 2008In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources - by a lot. Using Miscanthus as a feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S. could significantly reduce the acreage dedicated to biofuels while meeting government biofuels production goals, the researchers ... more Researchers Analyze Material With Colossal Ionic Conductivity 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Aug 08, 2008A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells. The material, a super-lattice developed by researchers in Spain, improves ionic conductivity near room temperature by a factor of almost 100 million, representing "a colossal increase in ionic conduction properties," said Maria Varela of ORNL's ... more Japan kept quiet on food scare at China's request: FM 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 7, 2008Japan's foreign minister said Thursday the government had withheld information about the latest health scare involving Chinese dumplings at the request of Beijing. Chinese authorities "asked us not to disclose it because it could become an obstacle to the police investigation," Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said. The foreign ministry said Wednesday it had been told by Beijing that ... more BlueFire Ethanol Receives First Installment Of DOE Grant Funds 
Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008BlueFire Ethanol Fuels has received the first installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of the BlueFire Mecca, LLC plant in Southern California. Upon completion, the plant will produce approximately 17 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from green waste, wood waste, and other cellulosic urban wastes. Receipt of this funding brings ... more
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