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Franklin General Authority will work to provide fluoride for children
Fluoride was yet again the head of discussion at the Franklin General Authority meeting Tuesday as the group’s members agreed to seek continued fluoridation services for the area’s small children. The conversation with interested community members, including retired dentist James Knarr and Child Development Centers executive director Rina Irwin, followed the authority’s decision last month […]
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Fluoride debate coming back to Brooksville
BROOKSVILLE — Having settled contentious debates about whether to keep their fire and police departments, Brooksville City Council members last week raised another controversial subject — fluoride. The City Council voted 3-0 to pursue a referendum on the November ballot, asking the residents whether they want to continue adding fluoride to the city water supply. […]
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Dry port to come up at Chityal: KTR
Hyderabad: IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao said while the Congress rule of over four decades gifted fluorosis to the people of erstwhile Nalgonda, the TRS government got premier medical institutes like All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) near Bhongir and a government medical college each at Nalgonda and Suryapet to provide […]
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Iron trifluoride could make better electric-car batteries
Adding oxygen and cobalt to the cathode prevents lithium from breaking chemical bonds Researchers at the University of Maryland, in conjunction with Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new battery cathode material that they say could triple the energy density of lithium-ion batteries. The new material is an engineered variety of iron trifluoride, a well-known […]
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U.S. Department of Energy provides funding to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced today the Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine domestic projects to receive nearly $20 million in funding for cost-shared research and development for advanced nuclear technologies. These awards are through the Office of Nuclear Energy’s (NE) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) U.S. Industry Opportunities for Advanced Nuclear […]
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Funding for thorium molten salt and other advanced nuclear reactors
Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for the removal of fission products. They will look at fluorination of Lithium Fluoride-Beryllium Fluoride. The US Department of energy will provide $2,101,982 of […]
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How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat
A family of chemicals — known as PFAS and responsible for marvels like Teflon and critical to the safety of American military bases — has now emerged as a far greater menace than previously disclosed. The chemicals once seemed near magical, able to repel water, oil and stains. By the 1970s, DuPont and 3M had […]
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Flibe Energy’s liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR)
We Stand at the Dawn of the Thorium Age Thorium is the key to creating life-saving medicines to fight cancer and to produce clean, efficient, reliable and sustainable energy. The full potential of thorium is best realized through molten-salt reactor technology, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under Dr. Alvin Weinberg from 1951 until 1976. […]
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Fluoridation Resumes in Albuquerque
Supplemental fluoridation of Albuquerque’s drinking water resumed on June 27, 2018. Background information about the decision to resume fluoridation, and the utility’s fluoridation methodology, is included in the update from Sept. 21, 2017, posted below. For facts about the benefits of supplemental fluoridation, please visit the website of the American Dental Association. Fluoridation Update (Posted Sept. 21, […]
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Greens win court case seeking stronger air pollution rules for brick makers
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that parts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest air pollution rule for brick makers don’t go far enough. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit accepted arguments from environmental groups, saying that the EPA acted improperly when it downplayed cancer risks from certain pollutants and […]
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