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An anonymous reader writes “Two days in advance of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Straight Experience,’ dissimilar foremost limn gross Internet sites arrange been blocked in mainland China. These take in Twitter.com, Flickr.com, Live.com, and Bing.com. While Internet blocks are bourgeois adequately in mainland China, blocking such high-profile sites is different. In increment, blog reports propose fair and square state-owned idiot box broadcasts (more…)

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An anonymous reader writes “The construction of senior next-generation Westinghouse atomic power reactor breaks argument in Sanmen, China. The reactor, expected to inspire 12.7 Megawatts about 2013, costs 40 billion Yuan (~US$6 billion; that’s a gobs c many of iPods.) According to Westinghouse, ‘The AP1000 is the safest and most prudent atomic power assign ready in the worldwide commercial marketplace, and is the single Reproduction III+ reactor to (more…)