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Researchers from the University of Toronto, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia), and Pennsylvania State University have created the most efficient colloidal quantum dot solar cell of all time. An additional contributor was Huazhong University of Wuhan, China.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed an air pollution standard proposal for oil and gas production.
In the wake of the nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan after a major earthquake rocked the island nation last month, the United States has been exploring the safety not only of its nuclear power plants, but also of nuclear energy, on the whole.
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Shares in the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO), the owner of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, dropped to an all-time low today amidst concerns of the company's ability to contain radiation at the troubled facility.
VG Energy is moving into production trials of its algae biofuel technology that may be the elusive metabolic lipid trigger to increase algal oil production.
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Japanese firefighters, police and soldiers continue to put themselves at serious risk of radiation poisoning as they spray nuclear reactors with with water from firetrucks. Officials from the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised the situation's "events scale" from 4 to 5. Chernobyl was rated a 7, the highest level in the international scaling system.
In his first public address regarding the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, President Obama made it abundantly clear that U.S. authorities do not expect radiation to make it to the western United States, Hawaii, or any American territories in the Pacific.
In response to the growing nuclear crisis in Japan, United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu answered questions about nuclear energy safety in the U.S. with a clear message: U.S. reactors are safe.
