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Green Bike Project gets rolling
Giving away bicycles to commuters to get them out of their cars is no longer strictly a private enterprise. The state and King County are trying it as well.
A new "green bike" program announced Thursday is aimed at getting 300 workers to reduce their commute trips by 60 percent between now and May.
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Motorcyles Designed to Run on Air : Discovery News
We may be driving on air in the next few years. That is, we may be driving vehicles powered by compressed air, instead of gasoline or diesel fuel.
Researchers Yu-Ta Shen and Yean-Ren Hwang of the National Central University in Taiwan have developed an air-powered motorcycle, which uses the energy in compressed air, rather than gas, to drive the motor.
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Postbulletin.com: Derailment is IC&E's third since May; Highway 26 partially reopened - Wed, Jul 30, 2008
The derailment of an Iowa, Chicago & Eastern railroad train near the small town of Reno early Tuesday is the railroad's third along the Mississippi River in far southeastern Minnesota or northeastern Iowa since May.
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Auto Costs Versus Bike Costs -- Including Hidden and Indirect Automobile Costs
The cost of operating an automobile has intrigued me since I started riding a bike as an adult. From asking owners, I estimated in 1965 that a car cost about 25¢ a mile to operate, which caused a fellow student to scream at me. In the late 70's, when I was an owner, I figured the operating cost at 14¢ a mile, which was unrealistically low. We tend to believe what we want to believe.
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Cold War-era nuclear waste set to roll through Georgia | ajc.com
Regular shipments of radioactive waste left over from the Cold War era may begin this fall with trucks moving through northwest Georgia en route to New Mexico.
The estimated 60 to 120 truckloads a year of waste from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will be buried nearly a half-mile deep in an underground salt formation. The transports to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., are expected to take three years, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The shipments are awaiting approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Associated Press: Bulgaria sends uranium fuel to Russia
Bulgaria has sent its remaining highly enriched uranium to Russia for safeguarding from terrorist or other potential misuse.
Nearly 14 pounds of the spent fuel were received Thursday at a Russian nuclear facility, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced. A first shipment of 37.3 pounds of fresh uranium fuel was sent to Russia in December 2003.
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Cold War-era radioactive waste to go through Birmingham on way to salt mine- al.com
Birmingham is on a route for regular shipments of radioactive waste scheduled to begin this fall, with trucks moving from Oak Ridge, Tenn., along Interstates 59, 20 and 459 and on to Carlsbad, N.M.
In Carlsbad, the estimated 60 to 120 truckloads a year of waste from Tennessee will be buried a half-mile deep in containers in an old salt mine. The transports to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad are expected to take three years, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Nuclear Highway: Radioactive On The Road, Manhattan Project Nuclear Waste To Be Taken From Tennessee To New Mexico Via Truck - CBS News
Motorists across the South could soon be sharing the highway with nuclear waste generated decades ago in developing the first atomic bomb.
Tons of this so-called "transuranic waste" have been waiting for years to leave what is now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a final home in New Mexico, where the government has built a permanent vault in salt beds nearly a half-mile deep.
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The Oil Drum | Multiple Birds – One Silver BB: A synergistic set of solutions to multiple issues focused on Electrified Railroads
The consensus on The Oil Drum is that there is no single “Silver Bullet” to deal with our related energy, oil and climate change problems, Rather a series of “Silver BBs” will be needed. This essay is about a cost effective, medium term, multi-faceted, synergistic Silver BB arguably our best one.
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RITA | Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
transportation resources
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BTS: 2008 Pocket Guide to Transportation Info
PDF file with the latest information about U.S. Transportation usage... Lots of graphs
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Taipower plans to send spent nuclear fuel to France for processing : Asia World
in list: Nuclear Energy News
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'Dirty bomb' threat as UK ships plutonium to France in unarmed ferry - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
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The Siege of Gorleben
in list: Nuclear Waste
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Where Now for Atomic Waste? | Current Affairs | Deutsche Welle | 12.11.2002
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From cocaine to plutonium: mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
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Castor (spent fuel) transport route between France and Germany
in list: Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Reprocessing
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The Local - German atomic waste transport cancelled for 2009
Transport of radioactive waste to an interim storage facility near the German town of Gorleben from a reprocessing plant in La Hague in France has been cancelled for the coming year, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
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