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Japan's lesson for U.S. reactors: Disaster is possible
When the giant winter storm Nemo hit New England two weeks ago, the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Generating Station in Plymouth, Mass., lost outside power for several days. Diesel backups took over operating...
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Today's Army marches on its batteries while searching for alternatives
The U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force -- REF for short -- is a little-known agency making big changes in how soldiers fight. It was created after an officer saw a video of soldiers trying to clear an...
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This smart grid can save power -- and lives
Big, centralized energy systems, like the one allowing you to hear this, have lots of power: extra capacity, back-up for big demand. Small systems balance energy, efficiency and expense more...
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Miami's flooded future
Today, there are about the highest tides of the year in South Florida. And in a low lying area like that, a really high tide is more of a problem that you might otherwise think. The 3.59 foot high...
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The rise of the green dragster
Kai Ryssdal: GM says it's going to miss sales targets for its whiz-bang new electric hybrid Chevy Volt: 8,000 sold; probably not the 10,000 they wanted. A government investigation found Volt batteries...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission releases audio of Fukushima disaster
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today released transcripts and audio recordings made at the NRC Operations Center during last year’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan....
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Interview: Witness at Fukushima Daiichi
When the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan and the Daiichi nuclear plant last March, an American technical crew with 40 workers was on site. Among the crew was Carl Pillitteri, a maintenance...
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Lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Kai Ryssdal: A year ago this week -- Sunday, to be precise -- a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan. That in turn made the Fukushima Daiichi power plant famous as the site of...
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What happened to the oil from the BP spill?
Kai Ryssdal: It's been two years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico -- 11 people were killed, the rig was destroyed, and by the time the wellhead was capped 87 days...
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This is the oil business
Kai Ryssdal: Crude oil closed today in New York at $103 and a nickel, up just a hair. Monday it'll be, well I don't know, whatever the market says it's gonna be. There's nothing actually about oil...
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Scientific method: The search for a better battery
There's a fair chance you're seeing this on one of your devices that runs on batteries. Not to sneer at your preferences in phones, tablets, laptops...whatever, but your battery sucks. It cost too...
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Innovators: Building an electric car for speed
Innovation takes many roads -- seldom as quickly as a California man who is building what may be the fastest street-legal green car in the world, or just the fastest car. The last time I talked to...
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Japan's lesson for U.S. reactors: Disaster is possible
When the giant winter storm Nemo hit New England two weeks ago, the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Generating Station in Plymouth, Mass., lost outside power for several days. Diesel backups took over operating...
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Today's Army marches on its batteries while searching for alternatives
The U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force -- REF for short -- is a little-known agency making big changes in how soldiers fight. It was created after an officer saw a video of soldiers trying to clear an...
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This smart grid can save power -- and lives
Big, centralized energy systems, like the one allowing you to hear this, have lots of power: extra capacity, back-up for big demand. Small systems balance energy, efficiency and expense more...
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Miami's flooded future
Today, there are about the highest tides of the year in South Florida. And in a low lying area like that, a really high tide is more of a problem that you might otherwise think. The 3.59 foot high...
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