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Low probability disaster scenarios deserve more attention
Hazards with horrific outcomes — like the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan — are not only difficult to contemplate but are also challenging to plan for financially. Especially when the odds ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 27, 2011 |
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Iceland volcano eruption all but over: experts
The eruption of Iceland's Grimsvoetn volcano has tailed off and its ash plume has almost disappeared, experts and officials said on Wednesday, refusing though to declare the flight-disrupting incident closed.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 25, 2011 |
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Deal finally struck on stress tests for Europe's reactors
European nations Tuesday finally struck a deal on stress tests to be carried out from next month on the continent's reactors, EU diplomats and European Commission sources said.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 24, 2011 |
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Facing up to Fukushima
In the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima reactor, Japan and other nations are re-evaluating their attitude to nuclear energy. Cambridge academic Tony Roulstone believes it is vital for governments and ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 23, 2011 |
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Break up of New Orleans households after Katrina
How well a family recovers from a natural catastrophe may be tied to the household's pre-disaster make up and socio-economic status. In a recent study, Dr. Michael Rendall of the RAND Corporation compared the number of households ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 23, 2011 |
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Swiss protest nuclear power
About 20,000 people took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in north Switzerland on Sunday ahead of a government decision on the future of atomic energy in the country.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 23, 2011 |
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24 hour deployable concrete tents back in the news as disasters mount
(PhysOrg.com) -- First imagined and created back in 2007 by two University engineering students who met at the Royal College of Art in London, Will Crawford and Peter Brewin; tents that can be shipped to a ...
May 19, 2011 |
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US storms have no bearing on hurricane season
Natural disasters and a record number of tornadoes in the southeastern United States should not have any bearing on the severity of the upcoming hurricane season, the director of the National Hurricane Center ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 14, 2011 |
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Satellite images display extreme Mississippi River flooding from space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent Landsat satellite data captured by the USGS and NASA on May 10 shows the major flooding of the Mississippi River around Memphis, Tenn. and along the state borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 14, 2011 |
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Compromise found in EU nuclear safety testing row
European nations split over whether to include the threat of terror attacks in stress tests to be carried out on the continent's reactors have reached a key compromise, diplomats said Friday. ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 13, 2011 |
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EU nuclear safety testing row in meltdown
Fractious talks on testing the safety of European nuclear reactors broke down Thursday as calls to include terror attacks and other man-made disasters in the tests faced resistance from powerful nuclear lobbies ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 12, 2011 |
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Deepwater Horizon spill threatens more species than legally protected
Marine species facing threats from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico far exceed those under legal protection in the United States, a new paper in the journal BioScience finds. Univer ...
May 11, 2011 |
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Cyber security team creates winning network security product
A team from the Virginia Tech Information Technology Security Laboratory and Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering won third place in the 2011 National Security Innovation Competition sponsored by the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 11, 2011 |
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Cellphone alert system announced in NYC
(AP) -- An emergency alert system that will send messages to cellphones during disasters could have been used to warn New Yorkers of the tornadoes that hit the city last year, city officials said Tuesday.
May 10, 2011 |
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A tiltable head could improve the ability of undulating robots to navigate disaster debris (w/ video)
Search and rescue missions have followed each of the devastating earthquakes that hit Haiti, New Zealand and Japan during the past 18 months. Machines able to navigate through complex dirt and rubble environments ...
May 09, 2011 |
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