NASA begins daily Mars Odyssey image stream from orbit
NASA officials released the first in a planned daily flow of Odyssey images. The black and white frame shows a four mile wide segment of a sinuous channel network spanning about 300 miles in Mars southern latitudes. Scientists debate whether water shaped the gullies and deposits, with ongoing analysis from the Thermal Emission Imaging System.
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Congress aided Yucca Mountain trips fuel industry push
An Associated Press review shows since 1999 at least 168 congressional aides and seven House members took NEI funded trips to Yucca Mountain Nevada for study and recreation valued at 1 000 to 2 000 dollars per staffer. The industry aims to win congressional and state support for the nuclear waste site despite opposition.
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Nuclear weapons plant modernization begins at Oak Ridge
Workers at the Oak Ridge Y-12 facility began dismantling a rusty guard tower as part of a $4 billion modernization to upgrade 650 buildings dating to the Manhattan Project era. A new seismically resistant warehouse will store up to 32,000 cans and drums of bomb grade uranium, consolidating locations to reduce theft risk.
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