Topic: Science and Technology
Space Shuttle
AP News
Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour is carrying six astronauts who will deliver a room and observation deck to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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A message to Toyota
Las Vegas Sun
Administration takes a welcome, tough stand against the automaker Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has taken a high-profile stance in pushing automaker Toyota to fix problems with sticking accelerators. He said the companyÕs American subsidiary had been Òa little safety deaf,Ó adding that things changed after the National Highway Traffic ...
WhatÕs next for Yucca? Restoration
Las Vegas Sun
When it was on the drawing boards, the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump promised unprecedented challenges to nuclear engineers and physicists: How to safely store nuclear waste underground? Now with the project being killed by President Barack Obama, the site will offer unprecedented challenges to desert ecologists: How to bring ...
The phone call that would bury dump plan
Las Vegas Sun
Reid gives and takes
to end nuke waste project Nevada never wanted WASHINGTON After all the years spent fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a phone call on a Wednesday in July between the Senate majority leader and the new energy secretary turned the tide. The Senate was ...
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