An official in Iran’s nuclear program says Tehran has produced its first nuclear fuel pellets for use in a nuclear reactor currently under construction.
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, said Saturday there would be enough enriched uranium pellets by September of 2008 to power the 40 megawatt Arak research reactor.
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One might ask why it is important to understand the relation between the Leftist/Marxist/Islamist Alliance and the Emerging Movement among Churches and Mosques. It is because it indicates the movement of a historically conservative church and other organizations into the fold. These Emerging Church and Mosque Movements are the elephants in the pew. The Radical [...]

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But palladium defied the known physics and proved scientists wrong. Palladium absorbs 900 times its own volume worth of deuterium. When driven by an electric current, the heavily packed deuterium atoms within palladium, with the catalyst of the palladium crystal lattice, was able to fuse and release huge amount of energy. The experiments were done, [...]

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“We should be technologically prepared to produce a nuclear device,” said the general. He added, “No country can feel safe if it doesn’t develop technology that enables it to defend itself when necessary.”
Barros Moreira said that Brazil’s resources made it a “target” for foreign aggression. “The world lacks water, energy, food and minerals,” he said. [...]

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Moscow’s decision to give Beijing access to Russian-made RD-93 jet engines will allow China’s Chengdu FC-1 Fierce Dragon (Xiaolong) to compete for sales against Lockheed Martin and MiG fighters, analysts said.
Richard Fisher, vice president of the Washington-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, said this will place new pressure on the MiG Corp., “which will now [...]

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Since the end of the Cold War, most of the world’s militaries have downsized. But in recent years, a few countries have been bulking up. In this week’s List, FP takes a look at the countries that are going large while everyone else is slimming down.
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In a few decades China may indeed overtake America as the world’s top economic power. Will Britons who make the effort to learn its language be rewarded with better careers? Barring some kind of sea change in global language learning, the answer will almost always be no.
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Inspired by neighbouring China, North Korea initiated economic reforms in 2002. Most wage and price controls were dropped and the market was opened to some private commerce. After five years of reform, the new wealth has gravitated mainly to the city’s privileged class.
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Actually, the rating for “1913 Intel” is genius.
My friend Beth stumbled across a Web site that ranks the readability of blogs. What level of education is required to understand your favorite blog? Type in the URL here, and voilà! It tells you the reading level. The site actually rates any Web site, not just blogs. [...]

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Peculiar doctoral theses have supposedly helped Russian politicians improve their images. A paper by President Putin raises questions.
A U.S. analyst demonstrated that sections of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dissertation on “Strategic Planning of the Renewal of the Minerals-Raw Materials Base of the Region in Conditions of the Formation of Market Relations” were lifted wholesale from [...]

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