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Michael Friedlander, Urban Architect of Offbeat Designs, Dies at 63 He was best known for the Spring Street Salt Shed, a crystalline structure that appears, with a little imagination, to form a coarse grain of salt. Michael Friedlander in 2007 with a model of what ultimately became the Department of Sanitation building at the corner of 55th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. He worked for the department for 40 years.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times April 1, 2021 In the 1970s, Michae...

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 E-Mail IMAGE: Liwu Li, Yanxin Pei, Susan Campbell, and Yuan Zhu were awarded funding through the new pilot research program. view more  Credit: Virginia Tech Childrens National Hospital and Virginia Tech have awarded two $50,000 one-year pilot grants to multi-institutional teams of scientists for pediatric brain cancer research. The inter-institutional program, which launched in December, promotes cross-disciplinary collaborations among researchers at both institutions. At Virginia T...

We would never build a nuclear plant now with the technologies which had these accidents. now the technologies can be fail safe in the sense that if theres an anomaly like an earthquake it will shut down automatically. >> can all these countries that would like to build nuclear power plants afford that technology? >> thats a technology that exists in a powerpoint. that technology has been canceled. >> that technology was ready to move toward commercialization in 1993. >> michael, i want to get t...

We would never build a nuclear plant now with the technologies which had these accidents. now the technologies can be fail safe in the sense that if theres an anomaly like an earthquake it will shut down automatically. >> can all these countries that would like to build nuclear power plants afford that technology? >> thats a technology that exists in a powerpoint. that technology has been canceled. >> that technology was ready to move toward commercialization in 1993. >> michael, i want to get t...

So we really need to phase out fossil fuel emissions rapidly over the next few decades. and thats -- were doing exactly the opposite. the emissions are going up faster and faster. so weve got to turn that ship around and its not going to be easy. so it is urgent. >> absolutely. >> i appreciate all you taking part in this. michael friedlander as well. that does it for this special report. my thanks to the panel. thanks for watching. its an issue that matters and debate with consequences. i hope y...

Institute and nuclear engineer michael friedlander. right before the break michael said nuclear power plants are only as safe as the people operating them. >> thats right. so what we should do first is look at the record. solar energy, for example, the record is two deaths per terawatt hour of electricity generated. nuclear power 0.5 deaths of nuclear power. people fall off roofs while theyre installing solar panels. but im not against solar panels. im just pointing out that the nuclear is actua...

Okay, we are reducing pollution like this. and im saying wind prices going down, solar prices going down. investment going up. because those solutions are succeeding in the marketplace. and allow new nuclear technologies to come to the marketplace and say, im a cheaper solution. im a faster solution. >> youll support nrdc nuclear? >> i think nrdc is better spent on emerging technologies that have market barriers to overcome not a technology thats been getting intense government support. >> micha...

Environmental movement does not support nuclear energy. >> you used to be opposed. >> my first documentary was an anti-nuclear documentary. my last documentary was a loving history of the environmental movement. but ive take then film all over this country to colleges and universities. im taking it around the world now. and honestly, anderson, ive had nothing but support -- not nothing but support but overwhelming support for the proposition i put forth in the film from environmentalists. >> mic...

0 >> you actually feel like this is the beginning of a movement. good evening, everyone. welcome to our special report "nuclear power the fallout from fear" youve just seen the film "pandoras promise". i want to deepen the discussion with nuclear power and the central question about it. namely is it evolving into a plus for the environment or do the risks still outway the benefits. will me is director rob stone director of "pandoras promise" and former nuclear power plant operator joins us as ...