The moves are part of Ford's "Way Forward" restructuring plan in which the company said it would close 16 facilities by 2012. The company already has announced nine of the closures.
A site north in central Alberta will be home to North America's largest biofuels refinery starting this summer when construction begins on a $400-million plant that will produce 300 million US gallons per year of ethanol, biodiesel and crushed canola.
Security guards at a nuclear weapons plant in Texas went on strike this week over new fitness requirements that could cost many their jobs. BWXT Pantex in Carson County outside Amarillo is the only nuclear weapons assembly plant in the United States. The contractor responsible for the plant says the strikers were replaced when the walkout began
Russia began construction of the world's first floating nuclear power plant on Sunday. The plant will be aboard a barge where two reactors will be manned by less than 60 crew. The 300-million-U.S. dollar project is expected to be completed in 2010, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Ford said that the factory, which manufactures brake components, will close in July. The company said the 365 employees affected will be offered a mixture of early retirement and redeployment at Ford's distribution facility in Daventry.
Researchers in Mexico say compounds from the fruit used to make tequila may provide a more effective way to treat diseases of the colon. Chemists at the University of Guadalajara say compounds in blue agave may be more effective at delivering drugs to the colon than current methods and could lead to improved treatments for ulcerative colitis, ir
Frustrated Iranian officials says the dispute has made them even more determined to pursue every part of the cycle that can produce either reactor fuel or fissile material for a warhead. Iran also says it wants even more than before to be able to build its own nuclear reactors without outside help.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- It's best not to get between a predator and its prey -- especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart. Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.
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Russia's Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov in his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stressed his country's pledge to complete Bushehr nuclear power plant project on the scheduled date, Iranian news agency IRNA reports.
In the heart of Tehran sits one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities, a dome-shaped building where scientists have conducted secret experiments that could help the country build atomic bombs. It was provided to the Iranians by the United States.









