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April 1, 2013 Cover
Volume 91, Issue 13
COVER: The Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station is a decommissioned nuclear power plant built by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Herald, Calif.
Volume 91, Issue 13
As nuclear power plants age, concerns grow over financing, complexity, and safety of decommissioning
COVER: The Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station is a decommissioned nuclear power plant built by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Herald, Calif.
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April 1, 2013 Issue
Volume 91, Issue 13
April 1, 2013 Issue, Vol. 91 | Iss. 13
As nuclear power plants age, concerns grow over financing, complexity, and safety of decommissioning
(pp. 14-17)
Features
Business
Major chemical firms are on the prowl for companies that will jump-start their transformation strategies (pp. 20-23)
Science & Technology
To reduce electronic waste, a diverse team of engineers searches for new materials, training a savvy workforce along the way (pp. 41-43)
News of the Week
Crystal-Free Crystallography
Structure: Small, hard-to-crystallize molecules can be held in nanoscale scaffolds and analyzed via X-ray
(p.9)Biochemist To Lead NIH Institute
Government: Jon R. Lorsch named director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(p.10)Deal Sprouts For Monsanto, DuPont
Agbiotech: Firms drop lawsuits over engineered seeds
(p.10)Pharma Deals Divide High Court
Patent Suits: Court weighs legality of settlements that may delay market entry of generic medicines
(p.11)W. R. Grace Sues Teledyne For Patent Infringement
Instrumentation: Flash chromatography dispute has instrument makers at loggerheads
(p.11)Nixing Nitric Oxide
Bioinorganic Chemistry: Reductase enzyme mimic provides insight on how pathogenic bacteria thwart NO attack
(p.12)Profits Fall At Chinese Giants
Earnings: Sinopec and PetroChina struggle in petrochemicals
(p.12)Fatigue Guideline Up For Review
A compromised proposal to prevent plant accidents is the topic of next chemical safety board hearing
(p.13)Pesticides Shown To Damage Bee Brains
Regulation: Latest research adds fuel to a lawsuit calling for EPA to ban neonicotinoid insecticides
(p.13)Departments
Business
Major chemical firms are on the prowl for companies that will jump-start their transformation strategies
(pp. 20-23)
Chemical and drug firms warm to multivariable experiment technique for a statistical window into reactions
(pp. 25-28)
Sigma-Aldrich division builds its fine chemicals business by following its customers’ needs
(pp. 29-31)Concentrates
(pp. 18-19)
(pp. 18-19)- Mergers Seen Rising In 2013
- France’s Kem One Files For Bankruptcy
- Wacker Opens U.S. Carpet Testing Lab
- Mexichem Will Buy A PolyOne Business
- WeylChem To Upgrade A Chlor-Alkali Plant
- Huntsman Expands In Polyurethanes
- BASF Merges Three Divisions, Cuts Jobs
- Mascoma Cancels Stock Offer
- JSR Invests In Biomedical Supplies
- Sapphire Signs Deal For ‘Green’ Crude
- Shire To Purchase SARcode Bioscience
- Sanofi Boosts Role In Contract Production
- Lundbeck And Otsuka In Alzheimer’s Pact
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Government & Policy
House panel considers legislation to increase industry representation among agency’s science advisers
(p.36)
New regulatory tools may accelerate the approval process for facility antiterrorism plans
(pp. 34-35)
As nuclear power plants age, concerns grow over financing, complexity, and safety of decommissioning
(pp. 14-17)
Science & Technology
An unintended route to magnetism may lead to thermal cancer treatment
(pp. 44-45)
To reduce electronic waste, a diverse team of engineers searches for new materials, training a savvy workforce along the way
(pp. 41-43)Concentrates(pp. 38-39)
(pp. 38-39)- Elimination Reaction Cooks Up Chiral Allenes
- Denying Sugar To Proteins Has Therapeutic Effects
- Golden Ring With Aesthetic Appeal
- DNA Damage Linked To Alzheimer’s
- What Hungry Microbes Eat Under The Sea
- Mass Spec Discovery Platform Turns Up New Reactions
- Illuminating Copper Promotes Propylene Oxide Production
- Coaxing Saturated Aldehydes And Ketones To React In An Unexpected Manner
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