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News release: “Nuclear facilities licensed by the NRC routinely release very small amounts of radioactivity during normal operations. Even though the NRC closely monitors the plants and assures that these releases are well below regulatory limits, some community members remain concerned about potential health risks from these facilities. To address the concerns, the NRC has …
“Freedom of the Press 2011 identifies the greatest threats to independent media in 196 countries and territories. Released on May 2 as part of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day celebration in Washington, D.C., the report shows that global media freedom has reached a new low point, contributing to an environment in which only one …
“The International Research Portal is a collaboration of national and other archival institutions with records that pertain to Nazi-Era cultural property. These archival institutions, along with expert national and international organizations, are working together to extend public access to the widely-dispersed records through a single internet portal. The portal will enable families to research their …
“The Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden – killed in Pakistan by U.S. special operations forces yesterday, ranked as one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic terrorist activities in the world as early as 1996, according to declassified U.S. documents posted on the web today by the National Security Archive at George Washington …
News release: “Today is the beginning of Air Quality Awareness Week, a cooperative effort among EPA, state environmental agencies and the National Weather Service to remind the public to protect their health by paying attention to local air quality. With the onset of warmer weather, the EPA urges New Englanders to be aware of the …
Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future Refurbishments and Risks to Maintaining U.S. Commitments to NATO, GAO-11-387, May 02, 2011 Office of National Drug Control Policy: Agencies View the Budget Process as Useful for Identifying Priorities, but Challenges Exist, GAO-11-261R, May 02, 2011 Defense Biometrics: DOD Can Better Conform to …
Uranium Supply and Demand: “Estimates of current and future supply of and demand for uranium, the source of the isotope uranium-235 used to fuel the overwhelming majority of nuclear power plants.” Deep Borehole Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: “Deep borehole disposal is a type of geologic disposal in which spent nuclear fuel …
CRS – Europes Preferential Trade Agreements: Status, Content, and Implications. Raymond J. Ahearn, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, March 3, 2011 “Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) comprise a variety of arrangements that favor member parties over non-members by extending tariff and other non-tariff preferences. PTAs, particularly free trade agreements (FTAs), have proliferated in recent years. …
Monthly Labor Review – The 2007-09 Recession and Employment: “This issue takes an in-depth look at the 2007-09 recession by industry using Current Employment Statistics data.”
News release: “Among the employed population 25 and older, 37 percent of women had attained a bachelor’s degree or more as of 2010, compared with 35 percent of men, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In contrast, among all adults 25 and older, 29.6 percent of women and 30.3 percent of men …
News release: “The number of U.S. businesses owned by people of Asian origin increased 40.4 percent to 1.5 million between 2002 and 2007, increasing at more than twice the national rate, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. These businesses also generated $507.6 billion in receipts, a 55.4 percent increase from 2002. Asian-owned businesses continued to …
CNN: “Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, is dead, officials said — almost 10 years after the attacks that killed about 3,000 people. The founder and leader of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces Monday in a mansion in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, …
