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...decades after banning nuclear power, following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Italy announced it will begin building new nuclear facilities, spurred by surging oil prices and concerns over the effect of fossil fuels on the environment...
Percentage of electricity derived from nuclear power...
...SOURCES: EUROPEAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY; WORLD NUCLEAR ORGANIZATION...
...sites off the radar," she says. The result is Simon's 2007 book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, just awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. True to the book's title, the subjects are hidden and unfamiliar--a Palestinian woman undergoing hymen reconstruction, nuclear waste, the Abstract Expressionist art gallery at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters. The images alone may seem merely artful, but coupled with Simon's toneless captions, they fast become haunting. "The text anchors the images with cruelly defining weight," she says...
...important measure of the government's technology commitment is the federal budget for energy research and development. According to the International Energy Agency, U.S. spending for all energy research--nuclear, wind, coal, solar, biofuels, etc.--was a meager $3.2 billion in 2006. The Pentagon spends that much in about 40 hours. Spending on carbon capture and sequestration was a mere $67 million...