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GE is trying to blast into the business of making nuclear reactor fuel with lasers.
General Electric builds new nuclear plants, fixes broken ones and makes old ones generate more power. It packages reactor fuel into bundles for nuke operators. There is one lucrative stop on the nuclear fuel train where GE doesn’t collect a toll, though: enriching uranium into nuclear fuel. GE has now decided it wants into the […]
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Colorado Springs: What’s Not In The Water? The Fluoride Debate
It’s been called one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. That’s what the Centers For Disease Control said about communities that add fluoride to the water. Colorado Springs is not one of them and children seem to be at the center of a debate on whether adding fluoride to our tap […]
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Ipswich: Dentists add bite in pro-fluoride debate
IPSWICH residents’ teeth are already showing the positive benefits of having fluoride in the drinking water according to local dentists. With the one year anniversary of the fluoridation just weeks away on December 1, Australian Dental Association Queensland Ipswich president Dr Louise McLoughlin said fluoride had already improved teeth in the region. “Fluoridated water will […]
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Cryolite: Public comments on reclassification & labelling due December 19, 2009
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will accept public comments on its proposal to harmonise the classification and labelling of cryolite. Comments are due by December 19. • Cryolite (Germany) – which is the main constituent of the electrolytic bath in the production of aluminium. Germany proposes to change the current classification by adding classification in […]
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Will Fluoridation Help or Hurt Dental Health in AR?
The Natural State has always struggled with oral health, but not everyone agrees on how we should fix the problem. First and foremost, experts say try to prevent tooth decay by limiting your sugar intake, brushing and flossing, and going to the dentist twice a year. But what about fluoridated water? Many Arkansas towns are […]
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C8 linked to high cholesterol in children
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Children with more of the toxic chemical C8 in their blood are more likely to have high cholesterol, according to a new scientific study filed Friday in Wood Circuit Court. The study, conducted by West Virginia University researchers, found higher levels of C8 “were significantly associated with higher cholesterol and LDL, or […]
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EWG’s submission on ATSDR’s Toxicological Profile on Perfluoroalkyls
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyls Draft for Public Comment Comments of Olga V. Naidenko, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Environmental Working Group “ATSDR needs to protect people and the environment from contamination with perfluoroalkyls” October 30, 2009 Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non-profit public health and environmental research and […]
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Houseplants sensitive to fluoride
Excerpt: Houseplants are more and more becoming our focus — so today I’m going to talk about some common problems we deal with and possible solutions. Following are some reasons why plants have brown tips. After that, we’ll discuss houseplant pests and then how to keep your tropical hibiscus happy: • There are several things […]
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Jensen Camp: Judge rules against county over fluoride contamination in water
For a second time, a state appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit pitting Monterey County against residents of a Cachagua mobile home park over a water system contaminated with fluoride. In a ruling this week that could have statewide impacts on cities and counties, the 6th District Court of Appeal said the […]
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Southampton City Council’s vote on fluoride ‘would be different’
A TOP Southampton councillor has today said the city council would never have backed FLUORIDATION if it had known children’s dental health had improved. Deputy leader Cllr Royston Smith said new survey results, which show the city’s five-year-olds suffer the same amount of tooth decay as those across England, have dramatically weakened the case for […]
United Kingdom, England