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The public awareness of nuclear power in Taiwan has increased markedly especially after the Fukushima nuclear accidents made nuclear power a contentious front-page issue. Nowadays, Taiwan produces 22% (i.e. 5028 megawatts ) of her energy from nuclear power produced by three power plants with 6 reactors. In addition to these three power plants, the under-construction nuclear power plant four has never been far away from the center of public opinion in the past 20 years. The rising environmental and

ANALISYS OF COALDISTRIBUTION PATTERNSOF COAL Triswan Suseno (Researcher of Research and Development Center of Mineral and Coal Technology – Bandung – Indonesia) (triswan@tekmira.esdm.go.id) SARI Peraturan Menteri ESDM Nomor 34 Tahun 2009 tentang Pengutamaan Pemasokan Kebutuhan Mineral dan Batubara untuk Kepentingan Dalam Negeri, khususnya untuk batubara dikenal dengan kebijakan Domestic Market Obligation batubara. Untuk mengatur yang lebih teknis lagi, tiap tahun diterbitkan Keputusan Menteri ESDM

organic farming could be our planets superhero. Conventional farming uses a high level of nitrogen to help crops grow in mass production. These fertilizers sometimes get into the normal irrigation and eventually end up in rivers and oceans. A 2004 United Nations article estimated that "most of the 160 million tons of nitrogen used as fertilizer annually ends up in the sea"(“Conventional Farming”). Why is this bad? The fertilizer that ends up in the ocean creates algal blooms which have neurotoxins

Long Island Sound (LIS) is a major urban estuary located along the east coast of the United States. It is semi-enclosed by states and islands in all directions. LIS is bordered by the State of Connecticut to the north and Long Island, New York (NY) on its southern shore. To its west it connects to the NY metropolitan area and to the east it is closed off by Block Island and Fishers Island Sounds. Due to the restricted transport and dispersal of contaminants, LIS is susceptible to enhanced anthropogenic

Bettering one’s body is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions. Whether it is eating healthy or exercising, people are always searching for ways to improve themselves. The food industry has recently seen a substantial increase in the demand for organic foods as opposed to the more common option of conventionally grown products. In 1990, the revenue spent on organic foods was only $1 billion, soaring to $21.1 billion in 2008, and reaching $26.6 billion in 2009 (Crinnion 4). This significant

Introduction Maintaining ecological diversity is necessary for the survival of a biological community. In the United States, American citizens are on the verge of irrevocably damaging one of the country's most unique and diverse treasures - the Florida Everglades. This national park is now the only remaining patch of a river that used to span 120 miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. Dikes and levees created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1940's drained this river to reduce

TSUNAMI DISASTER, WHAT IMPLICATION ON ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN THIS REGION? We view with awe a release of power on this scale. We know that this power is greater than that of our species — nature holds us in its hands. We may be able to mitigate some of the consequences; in some cases we may be able to give advance warning of the threat; but we are not in control; the tsunami has demonstrated this ancient truth. William Rees-Mogg INTRODUCTION 1.     On the morning of December

The third day of summer of 1988 in Washington D.C, temperatures touched 101° F. The very same day, it was for the first time in the history that NASA scientist James Hansen gave a memorable yet startling testimony before U.S Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Hansen 2000: 9876). The two key pieces of information presented were that the earth is getting warmer at a relatively faster rate and analysis of data and records reflected that the global warming is linked to greenhouse gas emission

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans and groundwater). Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water; and, in almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities. Water pollution occurs when pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds. Contents [hide] • 1 Introduction

Outside of China, the United States is the most-dammed country on the planet. Counting only dams taller than fifty feet high, the U.S. has some 5,000 dams that range from giant hydroelectric dams such as the Grand Coulee in Washington State to flood control dams in the southeast and dams that provide water for irrigation in California. Overall the United States has as many as 2.5 million dams of one sort or another. The design and construction of many of these dams took place between 1930 and