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Across the country, unemployment systems are collapsing under an unprecedented number of claims. But some state systems, like North Carolina’s, have long made it harder to receive unemployment benefits.
New nuclear technologies will be needed alongside existing nuclear plants and renewables as the USA transitions to a carbon-free future, but they will continue to need legislative support at the federal and state level, utility leaders said during the opening session of the Nuclear Energy Institute's Nuclear Energy Assembly this week.
09 June 2021 Share New nuclear technologies will be needed alongside existing nuclear plants and renewables as the USA transitions to a carbon-free future, but they will continue to need legislative support at the federal and state level, utility leaders said during the opening session of the Nuclear Energy Institute's Nuclear Energy Assembly this week. (Image: NEI) "It's been an incredibly trying year - not just for our industry, but for the country as a whole. The pandemic has forced us to think differently," Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Maria Korsnick said in her opening address. "We're t...
Wed, 05 May 2021 18:26 UTC © Pavel_Klimenko/ShutterstockMany things separate the kingdoms of animal and plant. One of them, we might suppose, is pain. Humans — along with all other nerve-endowed organisms — experience damage to their bodies as subjectively unpleasant. Plants are just as prone to injury, of course, and they respond to injury in their own way. But we feel the stabs and aches in a way they presumably don't. Lacking the brain and nervous system needed to conjure consciousness (not to mention nociceptors, the animalian cells that react to painful stimuli), our vegetal cousins...
Raleigh just shelled out $846 million to get an Apple campus. Competition with Nashville, Austin, and Miami for Oracle and other big firms is fierce.