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...salvage company, the 155-m, 18,000-ton vessel was clamped to a giant barge for its homecoming. Experts will examine the Kursk in dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, to establish how the submarine foundered. Officials are taking no chances that radiation from the sub?s two 190-megawatt nuclear reactors will leak out or that its 22 Granit cruise missiles will accidentally detonate. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes during the war in Croatia. The indictment cites 32 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the "ethnic cleansing" of Croatia between August 1991 and June...
...hide his shame. In fact, on closer examination "Houston" isn't really even Houston. According to the LA Times, state records show that over the first three months of this year - some of the worst of the crisis - the power generator charging the most on average for a megawatt-hour, at $498, was Powerex, the trading arm of a Canadian public utility. After Powerex was a subsidiary of San Diego Gas & Electric's parent company - third-highest, at $292, went to the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water...
...scale to their advantage. Despite the fact that no new plants have been ordered in almost a quarter-century, the nuclear power sector still accounts for 20% of the nation's electricity supply. During the past decade, output has increased 25%, equivalent to building 23 new 1,000-megawatt plants. And the beat will go on: the initial 40-year licenses of a small but growing number of units are being renewed for an additional two decades...
...scale to their advantage. Despite the fact that no new plants have been ordered in almost a quarter-century, the nuclear power sector still accounts for 20% of the nation's electricity supply. During the past decade, output has increased 25%, equivalent to building 23 new 1,000-megawatt plants. And the beat will go on: the initial 40-year licenses of a small but growing number of units are being renewed for an additional two decades...
...audience is panting for more. But the 20-year-old, sitting behind a big black desk with her tanned Modigliani face framed by long tresses of orange, brown and bleached-blond hair, leaves them hanging. She considers some of the questions from the audience, flashes a 200-megawatt smile, then coyly brushes off a fan who wants to know if she's wearing panties. Another asks her to take off her bra, but she pays no heed, instead riffing on the joys of drinking tea at night to relieve constipation. Twenty minutes into the show, she has loosened her black...