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...Pentagon is also purchasing extra jet and diesel fuel, much of which is being stockpiled overseas, in quantities not seen since the Gulf War. American allies could help, as they did during the Gulf War, by releasing part of their industry and government petroleum stockpiles. Even the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is doing its part: heavyweights such as Saudi Arabia have opened the taps, helping America fill the reserve's salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana with crude. U.S. oil prices, meanwhile, have fallen 15% since late September, to around $26.50 per bbl. --By Adam Zagorin/Washington
TUWAITHA Iraq's nuclear-research program was based here until the IAEA removed all the facility's nuclear fuel and destroyed equipment directly tied to the weapons program. But Iraq continues to have natural and low-enriched uranium and has added structures to the site...
...club by using plutonium extracted from a Soviet-built nuclear reactor (the CIA at the time said it believed Pyongyang could have one or two bombs). Under a 1994 agreement with the West, North Korea agreed to shut the reactor down in exchange for an ongoing supply of free fuel oil from the U.S. and two tamper-proof reactors for electrical power generation to be built by Japan and South Korea...
...floor of the north Atlantic, in the frigid depths off Spain's craggy Costa da Morte (Death Coast), sits a time bomb. The Prestige lies in shame, 145 nautical miles off the northwestern state of Galicia, and its remaining cargo - at least 55,000 tons of thick fuel oil - could detonate in days, weeks or months into a great black tide of viscous goo, unleashing one of the worst marine disasters ever. But if King Neptune is kind, the sunken tanker may just sleep, its cargo solidified, having done all the dirty work it will ever do. Its work...
City councillors warmly received a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Cambridge by encouraging fuel economy, recycling and alternative energy sources at a meeting this week...