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Added: 13 Nov 2002
The Windscale gas-cooled nuclear reactor has been shut down for over two decades, and engineers are…Model analysis
Added: 13 Nov 2002
A spin-off company from the University of Newcastle is offering chemical companies a comput…
Waste not, recycle more
Added: 13 Nov 2002
The UK will fail to meet its EU commitments to waste management targets unless the governme…
Health and safety remains at the forefront of processing
Added: 13 Nov 2002
The process industries only seem to hit the headlines when something has gone wrong. Dr. Mike Spear…Pearly whites
Added: 13 Nov 2002
Science fiction afficionados might think of nanotechnology in terms of microscopic robots. But in t…A Community approach to nuclear safety
Added: 6 Nov 2002
Today, the European Commission proposed an 'unprecedented package' of measures that should …
Cleaning up pollutants with sunlight
Added: 23 Oct 2002
UK researchers are developing a new type of reactor to destroy persistent contaminants such…
Keeping up the pressure
Added: 15 Oct 2002
The Pressure Equipment Directive is now part of UK law, but it may still hold some unexpected pitfa…Scanners don't live in vain
Added: 15 Oct 2002
Using 3D visualisation techniques, Transco is ensuring the highest standards of safety on all its s…What made Milwaukee famous next
Added: 14 Oct 2002
It might have been beer that originally made Milwaukee famous, but duck manure could soon b…
Transgenic plants remove arsenic from soil
Added: 9 Oct 2002
A team of researchers, led by a University of Georgia scientist, has developed the first tr…
US and ExxonMobil Oil settle for $4.7 million
Added: 25 Sep 2002
ExxonMobil Oil Corporation is to pay the United States and the state of California $4.7 mil…
If the medium is the message, what price mathematics?
Added: 23 Sep 2002
Dr. Mike Spear ponders over why media studies are so popular with today's school-leavers and finds …Chemical risk
Added: 16 Sep 2002
Research at Oregon Health & Science University has revealed that certain chemical ingredients of ga…Arsenic and old lakes
Added: 3 Sep 2002
MIT researchers have shown that a common pollutant strongly impacts the behaviour of arsenic and po…CO2 makes things cleaner
Added: 3 Sep 2002
ICI and Linde have adapted a supercritical fluid used in the American aerospace industry to clean h…UK Government energy policy unrealistic
Added: 2 Sep 2002
The Royal Academy of Engineering has told Energy Minister Brian Wilson that the UK Government's ene…Neural network to cut pollutants?
Added: 22 Aug 2002
The US Department of Energy has signed an agreement with Tampa Electric Power Company to demonstrat…UK companies fined for Aeron pollution
Added: 21 Aug 2002
Three companies who trade at premises in Felinfach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire have been fined a total…