Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

And if the SMR were located closer to populated areas with no offsite emergency planning, more people could be exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. But let’s go back to the beginning.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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Frontiers

MAY 4, 2023

Article link: [link] Radiation exposure delays fetal growth in wild living Japanese monkeys Since 2008, the population of Japanese monkeys, commonly known as ‘snow monkeys’, in Fukushima City has been managed systematically. They published their results in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

The Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, an association of state and local professionals, has concluded that “no federal regulations explicitly govern the management and disposal of TENORM associated with the oil and gas industry.” Rules to protect workers, including truck drivers, also have significant gaps.

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Physics World

MAY 2, 2021

Antihelium-4 was created for the first time in 2011, in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. According to theory, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the Big Bang, and subsequently all annihilated, leaving a universe full of radiation and no matter.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2011 such a warping of a distant star was caught by telescopes in New Zealand and Chile. The scientists argue this mass cannot be a regular star or a multiple star system because there would be radiation visible from those phenomena – and no such light has been detected.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. The Department of Environmental Protection confirmed as of February 11, Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, is no longer an employee of the agency. No other comments on personnel actions were made. No replacement has yet been named.

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HumanNature

MARCH 8, 2022

This occurs because carbon dioxide is really good at capturing radiation and reflecting it back to the Earth, causing the Earth to warm up. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9 , 61-67 (2011). Another consequence of adding carbon to the air is a global increase in temperatures. 4 Huang, Y., & Ziehn, T.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In 2011 I returned to Australia to work at Curtin University and in 2017 moved to China to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Beijing. I was born in Italy and did a PhD in astrophysics at the Australian National University. There I work on several projects and also collaborate with colleagues worldwide. .

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

Seeing more deeply Claire Walsh from University College London (left) and Paul Tafforeau from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, are among the scientists to have developed the new imaging technique of Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT). I thought that sounds ambitious,” he says.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Construction time The synchrocyclotron’s single magnet being slowly moved into place partially underground to help with radiation shielding. Being partially buried would help with radiation shielding, as well as the 30 tonne door, and walls comprised of nearly 1.8 m of concrete, behind which was approximately 3.7 m thick ceiling.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Data reported in a recent paper by Dr. Indur Goklany, and published by the CO2 Coalition, indicates that up to 50 percent of Earth’s vegetated areas became greener between 1982-2011. Researchers attribute 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization from of fossil fuel emissions.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

EPA responded to the Report in an April 18, 2013 memorandum from Gina McCarthy (Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation) and Lek G. Kadeli (Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

“During the permitting process, the permittee misrepresented a lot of things in the application, specifically ongoing water pollution, the fact that this would include oil and gas waste, and it would be a radiation source,” said Johnson “That's just the tip of the iceberg on the permitting issues we've seen in this one case.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. Green-roofs buffer some stormwater, sequester carbon, and improve water quality. flood-prone regions.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Those technical screening criteria should reflect the highest standards of nuclear safety, radiation protection and radioactive waste management, building upon requirements laid down in the Euratom Treaty and in Union legislation adopted under that Treaty, and in particular in Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One set of results from 2011 might have come from Seneca's LS-25, but it isn’t clear. The Coproduct Determination Submission is almost entirely just a set of laboratory results on the letterhead of Microbac Laboratories, Inc. and does not identify where the samples came from.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In his book Making the Modern World , the Czech-Canadian energy researcher Vaclav Smil estimates that China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century. tonnes over the last decade and ditching concrete is unlikely anytime soon. Physicists can help by devising cleaner ways of producing cement and steel.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). Compounds that can absorb energy are important because they alter the radiative balance of our Earth’s atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The Penn State study follows others that found health concerns related to the naturally occurring radiation in drill cuttings and wastewater from the oil and gas industry. The creation of the Registry was one of many recommendations in the July 2011 report of the Gov. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The deep earth is not just full of hydrocarbon vapors, but also full of radiation. She has been recognized for her work as a researcher and science writer with the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, the American Ethical Union’s Elliot-Black Award, and the 2011 Heinz Award. And of course, regulations cannot stop air pollution.

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Frontiers

JULY 23, 2023

After the Fukushima Daiichi accident of March 2011, he led the effort to assess the exposure to radiation of Fukushima residents, and led the official report on the accident for the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Can you tell us about the research you’re currently working on?

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Look at the food crisis last year,” said former World Bank engineer John Briscoe in a 2011 interview. They could have referred to radiation from receiving an x-ray, or from living in high-radiation places like Colorado, which are more emotionally neutral than Hiroshima. Why else use it?

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

START), signed by the United States and Russia in 2011, limits these two countries to only 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each deployed on 700 long-rage delivery systems. Although the Cold War ended more than 25 years ago, these countries continue to develop and maintain their arsenals. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 27, 28, 29 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- We Remember Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Radiation can be present in materials that are spilled or leaked from pits, tanks, or landfills. David Allard, Director of DEP Bureau of Radiation Protection , provided a detailed explanation of the radiation exposure from solid waste, and oil and gas drilling waste in particular. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

House Passage Of Build Back Better Budget Puts Us Closer To A Bright Inheritance For Our Children [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: Signing Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Good News For Our Children, Communities And Country [PaEN] -- WPCAMR: New Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Addresses PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem; Questions (..)

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

International United Nations report cautions against solar radiation management and calls for international regulations for the use of this technology. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.

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