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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 7, 2012 The cost of the clean-up and compensation after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster may double to $125 billion, the plant's operator said Wednesday. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said decontamination of irradiated areas and compensating those whose jobs or home lives have been affected would cost more than the five trillion yen it estimated in April. "There is a view that we may need the same amount (again) of additional money for the decontamination of low-level radiation areas and costs ... read more |
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  Making barley less thirsty Barley breeders may soon develop varieties of barley which are both less sensitive to high concentrations of salt ions in the plant and more resistant to osmotic stress caused by saline soil. Nguyen ... more | |
 Ozone's impact on soybean yield: Reducing future losses People tend to think of ozone as something in the upper atmosphere that protects the earth's surface from UV radiation. At the ground level, however, ozone is a pollutant that damages crops, particu ... more | |
 Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes Bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline, probably as a result of decades of preventive antibiotic use in domesticated hives. Researchers from Yale ... more | |
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  Mountain meadows dwindling in the Pacific Northwest Some high mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest are declining rapidly due to climate change, a study suggests, as reduced snowpacks, longer growing seasons and other factors allow trees to invad ... more | |
  California is Home to Extreme Weather, Too California isn't going to face a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy because the Pacific Ocean is too cold to feed that kind of weather system. But that doesn't mean California won't see extreme weather ... more | |
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RTX's Raytheon secures $529 million contract to bolster Dutch Patriot air defense system
Slingshot Aerospace to enhance USSF technology for GPS jamming and spoofing detection
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  Mekong River attackers get death sentences A Chinese court sentenced a drug baron from Myanmar and three of his alleged gang to death for the killing of 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River. ... more | |
  How silver turns people blue Researchers from Brown University have shown for the first time how ingesting too much silver can cause argyria, a rare condition in which patients' skin turns a striking shade of grayish blue. "It' ... more | |
 E. coli adapts to colonize plants New research from the Institute of Food Research has given new clues as to how some E. coli strains, normally at home in mammalian gastrointestinal tracts, have adopted slightly different transmissi ... more | |
  Australia reef collapse blamed on farming An "autopsy" performed on Australia's Great Barrier Reef found nutrient-rich runoff from farms caused parts of the reef to collapse, researchers say. ... more |
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 Study: Warming to see monsoon failures India's summer monsoons, vital for watering the country's farmlands, could see frequent failures in the next two centuries with global warming, researchers say. ... more | |
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SpaceX set to launch Hisdesat's SpainSat NG I satellite on January 28
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  Croatia floods force hundreds to evacuate Floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes in Croatia on Tuesday as declining water levels in flood-hit regions of neighboring Slovenia allowed many evacuees to return home. ... more | |
  China reformer seeks limits on Communists' power A top Communist reformer has called for change in China on the eve of a 10-yearly power handover, saying that reining in the ruling party's unchecked power is the only way to modernise the nation. ... more | |
  Bengal tiger beaten to death in Bangladesh Villagers armed with sticks and boat oars beat a Bengal tiger to death on Tuesday after it attacked a fisherman in southwestern Bangladesh, an official said. ... more | |
  Storm chaos sets election obstacle course Adora Agim had lined up before dawn to vote in Hoboken, New Jersey, but already the sun was up and the doors to her polling station in the storm-ravaged city remained shut. ... more |
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