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...submission period starts on Mar. 15 and ends on April 9. Check out the Web site for more information. Who knows? This might be your three minutes to fame...
Hundreds of children flock at the site of a stranger in the Kutu Palong makeshift camp in southeastern Bangladesh, near the border with Burma. Some are wearing salvaged clothes; mostly, they are naked. "Hello, how are you?" they shout, repeating the one phrase they have picked up from the few aid workers that have gained permission from the Bangladesh authorities to enter the unregistered camp...
...currently, only 10 percent of the energy contained in nuclear fuel is extracted while the remaining 90 percent is left to decay as a by-product. Even though a federal law passed in 1998 requires the government to create storage spaces for such waste and to move it off-site, most nuclear power plants in the U.S. still store this waste on-site in steel-reinforced cement silos or airtight water-filled pools. However, such storage methods are supposed to be temporary, and many plants have run out of space. Now, the government absolutely must invest in finding new ways...
Fiscal management practices that sparked concern included the UC’s failure to co-sign checks, retain documents in an organized and systematic fashion, and store files off-site in the event of damage. Another noted deficiency in the 2007 audit was the lack of a memorandum to guide the transition period between outgoing and elected treasurers, according to Paraszczak...
...with respect to nuclear energy," but the drawbacks he mentioned - waste disposal and reactor safety - are not the real obstacles to a rebirth. It would be nice to have a permanent Yucca Mountain-style repository for spent nuclear fuel, but for now plants have been storing their waste on-site without major problems. And the nuclear industry's safety record has improved dramatically in the 30 years since the Three Mile Island meltdown, although there are still occasional blips like the recent radioactive leak at a Vermont plant. The NRC is not exactly a hostile regulator, but sometimes it shows...