4 posts and columns on nuclear

Short Supply of Japanese Electronic Parts Hitting Global Car Industry

in Enterprise on March 24, 2011 at 11:56 am PT

The problems plaguing the supply of electronics components in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster are reverberating into the automotive industry and causing some production lines to shut down.

2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.

in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair. In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage. Scared yet?

Viral Video: Clinton's Diplomacy in the Conan-Newark Mayor Feud

in News on October 12, 2009 at 7:15 am PT

It looks like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will have her hands full with pretty dicey nuclear and terrorism issues in North Korea and Pakistan this week, but she managed to find time last week to try her diplomatic hand at working out the state of emergency between late-night television talk show host Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Here are the videos.
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Google: Beyond Thunderdome

in News on October 3, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

You can make money without doing evil. You can also make it without using so much fossil fuel. That’s the word from Google, which today unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan it says will reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and oil. Google’s “Clean Energy 2030” plan proposes to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 by relying on power from wind, nuclear and geothermal sources instead.