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Guardrail Maker Fires Back on Crash Test Controversy
2015-02-18 04:14:37| Railroads - Topix.net
An affidavit filed by Trinity expert witness Malcolm Ray hits back against recent comments that a test of the ET-Plus guardrail head demonstrated an impact that would have caused severe injury to a driver. The guardrail got a "pass" grade on the first four of eight government-requested tests and appeared to sail through the next three as well, but civil engineer and accident expert Brian Coon declared the eighth appeared to be a "clear failure" in an affidavit filed earlier this month.
CSX update on W.Va. derailment: 25 cars derailed, 20 in fires
2015-02-18 00:55:36| Green Car Congress
Welder Shortfall Fires Up Industry Training Programs to Work Overtime
2015-02-11 17:05:57| ENR.com: Headline News
Americas industrial-energy construction boom fuels the push for more welders with top skills
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Forest fires may resurrect radioactive soil near Chernobyl
2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, some 85 petabecquerels of radioactive cesium was released into the atmosphere and surrounding environs. Researchers believe somewhere between 2 and 8 PBq is still lingering in the soil and forest debris that surrounds the disaster site. Scientists have long feared that forest fires could send leftover radiation back into the atmosphere as radioactive leaves and other dead and dry plant material burn up -- traces of cesium wafting skyward...
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Kitchen Hood suppresses stove top fires.
2015-02-06 14:30:55| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Used over standard 30 or 36 in. residential range, GRRS Fire Ready Hood incorporates UL300A Listed self-contained, commercial-style automatic fire suppression system. Exhaust fan can be operated manually with face-mounted dial or automatically based on hood temperature which is monitored by onboard controller. If temperatures continue to rise beyond rating of system’s fusible link, Amerex 660 agent will be released through 4 nozzles directed at appliance and 1 nozzle into exhaust duct.
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