NEW SHIP’S CAPT. KIRK IS — USED TO ‘STAR TREK’ JOKES
By DAVID SHARPFILE – In a Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 file photo, the Navy’s stealthy Zumwalt destroyer is moored at Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. The skipper of the…
Utilities
A look at Iran nuclear sites from mine to reactor
By The Associated Press In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader’s office on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers…
20-year US-Russian nonproliferation program ends
By VITNIJA SALDAVA Representatives of participating companies sign containers with uranium to be used as fuel for nuclear reactors, prior to loading them aboard Atlantic Navigator ship, on a port…
Mass burial held in Philippine city hit by typhoon
By OLIVER TEVES and KRISTEN GELINEAU Workers arrange body bags at a mass burial site at the Basper public cemetery in Tacloban, Leyte province, central Philippines on Thursday, Nov. 14,…
Japan ex-leaders join calls against nuclear power
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Koizumi said Tuesday that…
The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push
By DINA CAPPIELLO and MATT APUZZO In this July 20, 2013, photo, a plant that produces ethanol is next to a cornfield near Coon Rapids, Iowa. Government mandates to increase…
JAPAN STARTS UP OFFSHORE WIND FARM NEAR FUKUSHIMA
By ELAINE KURTENBACH In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 and released by Marubeni Corp., a wind turbine, named Fukushima Mirai, is seen about 20 kilometers off the coast…
Q&A on polonium: What may have killed Arafat
By MARIA CHENG and JILL LAWLESS Palestinians walk past a mural depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Shati Refugee Camp, in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Swiss scientists…