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Waziristan: The last frontier | The Economist

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Could This 'Forbidden Medicine' Eliminate the Need for Drugs?

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Nuclear plant near Fresno planned - latimes.com

"The deal between French firm Areva and California investors faces regulatory hurdles. Early plans call for building at least one 1,600-megawatt plant using European pressurized reactor technology.

Reporting from Sacramento - A French company and a group of Central Valley investors announced Tuesday that they had signed a letter of intent to build one or two nuclear power plants near Fresno.

The agreement with Areva, a Paris nuclear engineering firm, is expected to be finalized in March, said John Hutson, chief executive of the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, a partnership of local business executives and farmers. Once that's done, the two potential partners would begin a site selection and evaluation process that could take as long as two years, he said.

Environmentalists were skeptical that the agreement would go anywhere. They point out that California has a 3-decade-old law that bans the construction of nuclear power plants unless the state can certify that the federal government has come up with a plan for the permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel, which is highly radioactive. No such facility exists in the country, and plans to open one at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have been put on hold by the Obama administration.

The California ban doesn't trouble the California investors.

"The law is archaic and will fall by the wayside on its own, in our opinion," Hutson said.

Early plans call for building one or two 1,600-megawatt power plants using European pressurized reactor technology. The cost is expected to range between $5 billion and $8 billion, Hutson said. He said no financing had been secured at this stage of the project."

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How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert | Webdesigner Depot

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69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009 @ SmashingApps

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New order - January 2010 - China Economic Review

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CIPER Chile: El mapa de Frei para la segunda vuelta - Pedro Ramírez, Francisca Skoknic, Bastián Fernández - 29/12/2009

Son 102 las comunas en las que el comando de Eduardo Frei concentrará su artillería para intentar acortar los 14 puntos que lo separaron de Sebastián Piñera en la primera vuelta electoral. En unos quince municipios con alta densidad de electores el despliegue será mayor, con dirigentes nacionales en gira y el concurso de rostros locales que inicialmente se alinearon con MEO.

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El próximo lunes retornará a prisión procesado por asesinato de Frei Montalva - Cooperativa.cl

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Delito de asociación ilícita se cierne sobre los procesados del caso Frei - El Mostrador

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A Collection of Citations on Open, free, participatory, and commons-oriented learning approaches

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