Dead rats shut down Japan N-plant`s cooling system

Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013, 19:28

The cooling system for the spent fuel pool at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeast Japan was halted Monday after several dead rats were discovered at the facility, the Kyodo news agency reported.

TERI developing renewable energy based cooling technology

Last Updated: Friday, March 8, 2013, 20:11

TERI is developing renewable energy based cooling technology in partnership with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia and an industrial organisation in India.

New method aims to trap coldest antimatter yet

Last Updated: Monday, January 7, 2013, 17:59

This process, known as Doppler cooling, is an established method for cooling atoms.

Super cooling coal smoke can slash noxious emissions

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 15:15

Super cooling coal smoke would slash emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) and dangerous chemicals by more than 90 percent.

6 months cooling period not to come in way of divorce: SC

Last Updated: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 22:12

Supreme Court has held the six months cooling period should not come in the way for allowing the plea for dissolution of marriage by mutual consent.

Habitat loss and tropical cooling could be behind mass extinction

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 16:54

The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which massive glaciers grew and sea levels plunged.

Clouds to cool the earth

Last Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 13:39

Analysis of lower cloud levels over the past decade has thrown up hints of a cooling mechanism that may be key to the planet`s climate.

Evaporated water helps in global cooling

Last Updated: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 14:50

A new study has found that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole and not just a local area, showing that water evaporated from trees and lakes could have a cooling effect on the entire atmosphere.

Fukushima N-plant clean-up will take decades: Japan

Last Updated: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 23:58

Japan`s prime minister said the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant would take decades.

Space station cooling normally after spacewalk fix

Last Updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 09:16

The ISS is operating normally again following a series of spacewalking repairs.

Astronauts make third space foray to fix ISS cooling pump

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 00:10

Astronauts from the International Space Station today conducted a third spacewalk to replace a busted cooling unit on the orbiting outpost, NASA said.