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Tom Roberts, violin collector and anonymous Smithsonian donor
TOM ROBERTS, 75, Smithsonian's 'Mr. Anonymous' The name "Tom Roberts" appears on no plaque in the Smithsonian Institution's musical instruments collection. At no concert, even when Mr. Roberts was in attendance, did Smithsonian chamber musicians...Tags: Music, George H.W. Bush, Benito Mussolini, Charity, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Sydney W. Porter Jr., radiation expert, dies
Sydney Wynne "Syd" Porter Jr., a noted physicist and radiation expert who was called to Three Mile Island, Pa., in 1979 after an accident destroyed a reactor in what proved to be the nation's worst nuclear incident, died April 23 of lymphoma at a...Tags: New York University, Johns Hopkins University, Science, Health and Safety at Work, Groton
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Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay
Mike Gray, an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his...
Tags: FBI, China, Movies, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Manufacturing and Engineering
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NRC raising oversight of Pennsylvania Three Mile Island reactor
ReutersApril 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said on Tuesday it will increase oversight of Exelon Corp's 805-megawatt Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, to ensure that safety equipment is protected from flooding....Tags: Nuclear Power, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Nuclear Accidents
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CNN continues acquisition spree with 'Pandora's Promise'
CNN Films is stepping up its acquisition efforts. One week after landing the television rights to the Penny Lane documentary “Our Nixon,” the network has acquired domestic television broadcast rights to the Sundance film selection “...
Tags: Pandora Media, Inc., SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Satellite and Cable Service, Television Industry, CNN (tv network)
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Sen. Casey examines state's nuclear emergency preparedness
Standard-Speaker, Hazleton, Pa.U.S. Sen. Bob Casey called for more information regarding emergency preparedness beyond the 10-mile radius for people living near nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. A recent report released...Tags: Middletown, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Government, Washington, DC, Japan
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Chambersburg Area Middle School North hosts emergency drill
waynesboro@herald-mail.comAs teenage athletes left Chambersburg Area Middle School North on Wednesday evening, firetrucks and other emergency vehicles descended on the parking lot for a drill related to an mock attack at a nuclear power plant. Emergency services officials...Tags: American Red Cross, Relief and Aid Organizations, FEMA, Health and Safety at School, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...
Tags: Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Tuskegee Airmen, Michael Douglas, Abusive Behavior, High Noon (movie)
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To fight fracking, what Pennsylvania needs is a masterpiece
Movies can have a tremendous impact on society, if they're skillfully made. "Triumph of the Will" was a stunning documentary that helped Adolf Hitler consolidate power. "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's...
Tags: Environmental Politics, Gasland (movie), Promised Land (movie), Petroleum Industry, Movies
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Cheap natural gas, caution curb nuclear energy
It's radioactive, its plants can be expensive to build and it scares the bejeebers out of many, but to some, nuclear energy is the future.
That may well be true, but for now, the race to that future has slowed to a cautious crawl as regulators have...Tags: Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Energy, Plant Openings, Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources
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Harry McPherson Jr. dies at 82; LBJ's top speechwriter
Harry C. McPherson Jr., who served as special counsel and chief speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson from 1966 to '69 and was a valued advisor to the president on civil rights, the Vietnam War and other policy issues, has died. He was 82. McPherson,...Tags: Civil Rights, Lyndon B. Johnson, Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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U.S. approves first nuclear reactors in 30 years
CNN MoneyThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissionapproved licenses to build two new nuclear reactors Thursday, the first authorized in over 30 years. The reactors are being built in Georgia by a consortium of utilities led by Southern Co. (SO, Fortune 500) They...Tags: Solyndra LLC, Plant Openings, Renewable Energy, Waste, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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