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Uranium Enrichment–Gaseous Diffusion Process
The gaseous diffusion is one among the uranium enrichment process, where the gaseous diffusion enrichment plant, the solid uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from the conversion process is heated in its container until it becomes a liquid. The container becomes pressurized as the solid start melts and the uranium hexafluoride gas fills the top of the container. […]
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Humboldt: Fluoridation to go to vote
Those who do and those who don’t want fluoride in their water will be given the chance to vote on the issue in a special mail-ballot election, the Humboldt City Council decided Monday night. The issue became heated at the council’s June meeting, when vocal opponents called a halt to a decision made by the […]
United States, Kansas -
Southampton/Hampshire: Echo campaign for fluoride referendum mounting
TWO local authorities could be set to add their voices to the growing clamour for a referendum on controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water. Hampshire County and Eastleigh Borough councils will this week vote on motions demanding South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) holds a public poll on the plan. There have been increasing […]
United Kingdom, England -
Thorium nuclear power
The uranium that makes conventional nuclear power possible has a number of significant disadvantages. For one thing, uranium reactors generate large quantities of waste. Much of this remains dangerous for thousands of years, and a proportion of it can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium. A second issue is that uranium is a comparatively scarce […]
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Sulfuryl fluoride: Dow Pitching New Pesticide That Doubles as an Extraordinarily Potent Greenhouse Gas
SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 13, 2009 — Public health and environmental advocates Friday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request from Dow AgroSciences for a permit allowing it to release large amounts of sulfuryl fluoride onto farm fields in four states. The chemical is a toxic pesticide whose global warming effects are thousands […]
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Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water
The lead pollution crisis of the Washington, D.C. water supply – and the culprit that caused it, the water disinfection chemical chloramine – is a powerful example of how things can go terribly wrong when water quality problems are considered and tackled in isolation. Earlier this year, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) […]
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Southampton/Hampshire: Minister refuses to back calls for referendum on water issue
SOUTHAMPTON MP and Cabinet minister John Denham has refused to back calls for a public vote on whether fluoride should be added to Hampshire tap water. The newly promoted Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government said a referendum, which is supported by the Daily Echo, was not the way forward. He said more […]
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Strathcona County: EPCOR lowers fluoride levels
The water in Strathcona County will have a little less fluoride, following EPCOR’s decision to reduce the parts per million to keep in line with Health Canada’s recommendation. The fluoride in the water will be reduced from 0.8 ppm to 0.7 ppm because of the increased fluoridation levels in toothpaste. Health Canada states the maximum […]
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Councilors’ vote to pull fluoride from Fort St. John’s water supply
Fort St. John’s drinking water might soon be free of fluoride. At Monday night’s City Council Meeting, councilors agreed to remove the chemical from the City’s water supply. Director of Infrastructure Victor Shopland, says the current amount of fluroide in the drinking water sits at .7 parts per million. Which, he says can be beneficial […]
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Southampton/Hampshire: How a fluoride referendum would work
IT’S not often us Brits get asked what we really think. We get to vote in national, local and European elections every few years, and in the meantime our views might be gathered for an opinion poll or focus group. But rarely are we given the chance to put our cross in a box on […]
United Kingdom, England