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CHANTILLY, Va., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Sciences International, an advanced technology provider of security and detection systems, today announced it has been awarded a contract by National Security Technologies (NSTec) for a muon tomography scanner system. NSTec will use the system to conduct research on new scanning and imaging applications incorporating muon tomography. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130115/LA42594LOGO) Muon tomography uses naturally...

Rebuttal to Nuclear Energy Institute Filing Comes One Day Before Monthly NRC Public Meeting on Waste Issues; NEI Seen Undercutting Needed Research on Reactor Pool Fires, Other Issues. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One day before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) holds its monthly waste confidence rule public conference call, national and grassroots environmental groups from across the U.S. will file a rebuttal of claims made by the Nuclear Energy...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In a groundbreaking new study, physicists from the University of California, Berkeley have used atomic matter to measure time. According to a new report in the journal Science, Holger Müller and his Berkeley colleagues describe how to tell time using a cesium atom and the theory that matter can be both a particle and a wave. "When you make a grandfather clock, there is a pendulum and a clockwork that counts the pendulum...

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A fire that shot 50 foot flames into the air erupted January 8(th) in the main transformer at the South Texas Project site near Bay City, Texas, about 90 miles southwest of Houston. Reactor 2, which was out of commission for five winter months in 2011-2012, has not been operating since the fire. The fire occurred just one week prior to a hearing on re-licensing the two South Texas Project reactors, which will be held January...

MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) announced it was awarded a prime contract by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to provide enterprise-wide technical, engineering, and programmatic support services across eight contract areas consisting of program management, nuclear engineering, training, security management, emergency operations, aviation operations, nuclear nonproliferation and emergency...

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) officials today announced a series of new operational practices that will provide additional information to municipal officials about power outage restoration efforts during significant storm events. The JCP&L enhancements will include: Providing municipalities with maps showing electrical circuit routes in their communities Locating JCP&L municipal liaisons in company field...

Alpha Galileo Foundation PTB measures the influence of the ambient temperature on strontium atoms for the first time – measurement uncertainty reduced by one order of magnitude An optical clock with neutral strontium atoms is considered one of the top candidates for the definition of a "new" second. The probabilities have increased considerably, since its frequency will now be determined more accurately (probably by an order of magnitude). Scientists of the Physikalisch-Technische...

Incomplete Process Should Trigger Continued Suspension of All Reactor Licensing, Re-Licensing WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In documents filed Wednesday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a wide range of national and grassroots environmental groups said it would be impossible for the NRC to adequately conduct a court-ordered assessment of the environmental implications of long-term storage of spent nuclear reactor fuel in the two short years the...

SHREVEPORT, La., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), an operating unit of American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), today began commercial operation of the new 600-megawatt (MW) John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant near Fulton, Ark., in Hempstead County. Turk, the first ultra-supercritical generating unit to go into operation in the U.S., generates electricity more efficiently at higher temperatures, requires less coal and produces fewer emissions to generate...

TULSA, Okla., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- POWER-GEN International, the world's largest conference and exhibition for the power generation and public utilities sector, announced a record-breaking attendance of nearly 22,000 attendees and 1,400 exhibitors at last week's event, held December 11-13 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Power professionals and executives from more than 75 countries gathered for three fast-paced days to hear the latest on technical,...