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- Assigning a new name.
- "Hongoeka" is now the official geographic name, as published in the New Zealand Gazette on 16 December 2010, and in relevant newspapers.
- One of 18 final determinations for Porirua suburbs and localities, of 22 proposals.
A locality of Porirua. NZTopo50 BP31-Porirua, GR 553 528 and NZTopo50 BP32-Paraparaumu, GR 564 529.
You can read the Hongoeka Proposal Report (PDF 188KB, also available in HTML), which was considered by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) at its meeting on 3 August 2010. The report includes a printable map.
The consultation period ended 30 November 2010.
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3/16/2014 |
Wilson feels responsibility to go deep into games
With three young starters in the rotation, it'll be up to Jered Weaver, and and C.J. Wilson, to consistently pitch deep into games and not put so much of a burden on the bullpen.
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De La Rosa's perseverance, belief finally pay off
Reliever Dane De La Rosa was once released by a last-place independent league team, then failed at a telemarketing job, but he's found a home, and success, with the Angels.
3/16/2014 |
Wilson rebounds after rough first inning
Angels No. 2 starter C.J. Wilson rebounded nicely from a rough first inning in Seattle's 5-3 win in front of a sold-out crowd at Tempe Diablo Stadium on Sunday.
3/16/2014 |
Hamilton ready to make debut Monday
Josh Hamilton, who has been sidelined by a strained left calf, felt good running the bases for the first time on Saturday, and he plans to make his Cactus League debut on Monday.
3/15/2014 |
Trout looking to pounce early at plate
Few guys have been in as many deep counts as Mike Trout these last two years. Only eight of them have had more plate appearances with a full count; only six have hit with two strikes more often. The approach is a credit to Trout's comfort with two strikes, but it's one that also leads to a lot of walks and strikeouts, limiting the star-studded outfielder's ability to drive in runs. This year, it'll be different.
3/15/2014 |
Angels belt three homers, settle for tie in 10
Howie Kendrick, Matt Long and Mike Trout all went deep, but Yoslan Herrera allowed a tying double in the ninth to Drew Stubbs and the Angels settled for a 4-4 tie after 10 innings. Starter Jered Weaver allowed three runs in five-plus innings.
3/15/2014 |
Shuck seeing results after relaxing approach
Angels outfielder J.B. Shuck started the spring with only four hits in his first 23 at-bats and has a good idea why. "I wanted to come in and prove that last year wasn't a fluke," he said. "I think I just put a little bit too much pressure on myself."
3/15/2014 |
De La Rosa cleared to resume throwing
Angels doctors cleared Dane De La Rosa to restart his throwing program and, in doing so, basically ruled out a serious injury to an area that when injured can lead to Tommy John surgery. He'll play catch again on Sunday and restart the progression in earnest.
3/15/2014 |
Hamilton running, nearing Cactus debut
Josh Hamilton ran the bases at the Angels' Spring Training complex for the first time on Saturday morning, and Angels manager Mike Scioscia said he "felt great" doing so.
3/14/2014 |
Amid mixed results, Skaggs looks past pitching line
Tyler Skaggs has not necessarily been lights out with the Angels this spring, but he has been good, probably even a little better than the numbers would suggest.
3/14/2014 |
LeBlanc to hone breaking ball vs. other lefties
Wade LeBlanc has lacked an effective breaking ball, a pitch that would tail away from lefties rather than break in on them as the others do. And that is what this spring is all about.
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Cron has positive outlook after big spring
C.J. Cron, set to begin his first season at Triple-A Salt Lake, batted .400 (6-for-15) in Cactus League play, with a homer and six RBIs, and continued to improve his strike-zone awareness.
3/14/2014 |
Black successfully challenges call vs. Angels
Bud Black sprung from the chair in front of the home dugout Friday to challenge a call on a close play at first base in the fifth inning -- and the Padres' manager was rewarded for doing so.
3/14/2014 |
Spring numbers belie Pujols' improved health
For those with a guaranteed starting spot on a Major League roster, Spring Training is all about getting the body ready for a season and very little about a line score. That is especially the case for first baseman Albert Pujols.
3/13/2014 |
'Magician' McDonald never satisfied with defense
Defense defines Angels infielder John McDonald. It is his identity, what makes him unique, what has allowed him to survive for 15 seasons in a cruel profession. And therefore he never disrespects it.
3/13/2014 |
Cron, Lindsey among five prospects cut from camp
The Angels cut left-handed reliever Robert Carson, first baseman C.J. Cron, catcher Anderson De La Rosa, second baseman Taylor Lindsey and utility man Shawn O'Malley from Major League camp on Thursday, whittling their Spring Training roster to 49 players.
3/13/2014 |
Trout helps give Angels upper hand over White Sox
The Angels piled on six runs in the second inning to ease past the White Sox, 8-6, on Thursday in Cactus League action. Mike Trout had three hits, including a triple, and scored twice to ignite the early outpouring.
3/13/2014 |
Angels announce television broadcast schedule
FOX Sports West will air about 150 Angels games during the regular season, leaving at least 12 others for national television broadcasts.
3/13/2014 |
Burnett feeling good after bullpen session
Angels releiver Sean Burnett three 30 fastballs off a mound during a bullpen session on Thursday, and said afterward that he felt "phenomenal" as he tries to overcome the physical and mental obstacles of his rehab process.
3/13/2014 |
Blanton finds success creating new mound angles
Right-hander Joe Blanton moved from the first-base side of the rubber to the third-base side while starting for the Angels' split-squad team in Surprise, Ariz., on Wednesday, and was brilliant against a Texas lineup that featured up to five regulars.
3/12/2014 |
Santiago throwing his screwball for strikes
Hector Santiago pitched well and got his work in, but a precious streak came to an end in a 12-2 win over the Brewers on Wednesday. He threw his first screwball for a ball.
3/12/2014 |
Angels rout Garza as Santiago displays K's
David Freese went 3-for-3 to break out of his spring slump; Kole Calhoun, Albert Pujols, Erick Aybar and Matt Long each notched a couple of hits; and Mike Trout scored two runs and drove in two as the Angels beat the Brewers, 12-2, and the starters had their most impressive offensive showing since the Cactus League opener nearly two weeks ago.
3/12/2014 |
Blanton's complete 180 backed by relentless bats
Joe Blanton had a much better day than Rangers starter Alexi Ogando, and it showed in a 12-1 Angels victory on Wednesday at Surprise Stadium.
3/12/2014 |
Santiago over Garza? Angels wouldn't trade it
There was a fascinating convergence of what might have been and what actually is Wednesday at Tempe Diablo Stadium. Fortunately for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, this meeting was won by what actually is. In fact, the result was a landslide.
3/12/2014 |
Calhoun resisting temptation of aggression
In case there was ever any doubt, Kole Calhoun is the Angels' leadoff hitter. He's started in nine of the days the Angels have had a Spring Training game, and he's led off in all of them. And every single time he has, he's taken the very first pitch of the game. That's by design. More Results > |


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Seeing the HP Pavilion TX1260ea gives us a sense of déjà vu. It's physically identical to the HP Pavilion TX1020ea we reviewed back in June, with the major difference being a slightly faster CPU and more memory.
Like its not-so-distant relative, it's still a half-tablet, half-Media Center hybrid, but will its improved specification help it succeed where the previous model failed?
The TX1260ea is a nice-looking unit. The silver highlights and glossy black lid are very unimaginative from a design standpoint, but you won't be ashamed to use it in public. Our only gripe is that it picks up fingerprint smudges with impunity, and the tight-fitting keyboard and assorted shortcut buttons that litter the screen edge give it a cluttered look.
These buttons have various functions. One lets you launch HP's QuickPlay software (a poor man's Media Center). Another lets you launch the Windows Mobility Center, where you can adjust the display brightness, volume and performance modes, for high performance or long battery life. There are also shortcut buttons for adjusting playback -- pause, rewind, and so on -- and for switching between portrait and landscape screen orientation.
It may be small, but the TX1260ea is heavy for its size. The chassis and battery weigh in at 2.55kg, which is what we'd expect of 14 or even 15-inch laptops. We attribute this to the heavy hinge mechanism that transforms it from standard laptop mode to tablet mode.
The hinge allows the screen to be rotated through 180 degrees and placed, facing upwards, against the keyboard. You can then use it as a sort of digital notepad, controlling the software with the stylus or your fingers. Unlike lesser laptops of this sort, the screen doesn't feel as if it's going to fall apart in your hands and there's a locking mechanism to prevent it from flying open accidentally.
Unless you're showing off to your mates, most of you will be using the TX1260ea in the standard laptop mode. Here, we found the mouse trackpad to be of the highest calibre -- its mottled Swiss cheese-style surface feels good to the touch and it's highly responsive without being too sensitive.
There's very little difference between the TX1020ea and the TX1260ea. The main disparity is in the TX1260ea's use of an AMD Turion 64 TL-56 processor, clocked at 1.8GHz and 2GB of RAM. This is a notable improvement over the 1.6GHz TL-50 chip and 1GB of RAM in the TX1020ea.
The extra memory is especially welcome here, as it negates the need to use Windows Readyboost to improve performance. It also means the integrated Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 graphics card, which borrows 128MB from system memory, takes a lower proportion of system resources.
The TX1260ea has pretty good storage for a laptop of this price point. Its 160GB drive is better for hoarding movies and digital images than the 120GB drive in the TX1020ea. You also get a built-in DVD drive so you can watch DVDs or make backups. There's also a 5-in-1 memory card reader supporting SD, Memory Stick, MMC and XD storage cards.
The swiveling 'convertible' screen on the TX1260ea is both a help and a hindrance. The display quality is fair but the panel is so reflective it looks as if the screen is covered by a thick layer of Vaseline. And you can forget about using it outdoors -- the whole thing turns into a mirror in direct sunlight. The one good thing about the screen is that it's touch sensitive, and unlike some displays you can use the accompanying stylus or your finger to control it.


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Small Businesses Get New Opportunities at Fort Lauderdale Business Expo
The conference promises opportunities for minority-owned small businesses to pitch their products and services to purchasing agents from, among others, BellSouth, Burger King, Coca-Cola, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Office Depot, the state of Florida and SunTrust Bank.
California's Economy Going Global
As efforts to encourage international economic cooperation heat up, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is releasing two studies that assess the state's current globalization and estimate what more liberal trade agreements could mean for California businesses.
Republicans Take Bow for Improving U.S. Economy
Republicans took credit Tuesday for a signs that the U.S. economy is improving, crediting in particular the White House-driven tax cut as a major reason for recent stock market gains.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Teams Up With Entravision Communications
On Saturday July 19th, some of the nation's top Hispanic leaders will gather at the 6th Annual "Reventon" Super Estrella, a star-studded concert sponsored by Entravision Communications' Super Estrella, 107.1 FM, to raise money for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI).
Making the Jump to Public Broadcasting
Luca Bentivoglio has been around U.S. Hispanic television from the industry's embryonic stage. Recently, Bentivoglio has switched from commercial to public television after vice-president posts at both Univisión and Telemundo, and a stint in his native Venezuela to launch Warner Brothers cable in Latin America.
Mexicans an Engine for CART
CART -- which has struggled to survive amid an exodus of well-known drivers, teams and manufacturers -- is tapping into America's changing demographics and economics by using the Mexican influence as a lifeline and to draw fans to the sport.
Reaching Hispanic-Americans with VNRs
In 2002, in markets where there is a high Hispanic population, it's Univision, not the major U.S. networks, that often has the highest ratings and audience viewership, according to the Nielsen Station Index (NSI).
McBride, a Star Three Years Ago, Files for Chapter 11
McBride and Associates, a 17-year-old Albuquerque information technology company that once was on Hispanic Business magazine's list of largest Hispanic-owned companies in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy-court protection.
Climbing Aboard the Latino Bandwagon
Spending potential and new census numbers prompt U.S. retailers to zero in on Hispanics.
Hispanic Lawyer to be U.S. Magistrate
A prominent labor and employment litigator is on the verge of becoming the first Hispanic to serve as a federal magistrate judge in South Florida.
New Commander of Iraq's Ground Troops Credits Poverty, Family, Hispanic Roots
Last weekend, a soft-spoken 52-year-old Texan pinned on his third general's star and took command of the U.S. Army's V Corps and all coalition ground forces in Iraq.
Five Things About the Hispanic Market
What's all the fuss about the Hispanic Market? Sure it grew 58 percent in only 10 years so perhaps marketers suddenly see why $600 billion in buying power can be beneficial. But is that reason enough for the nation's marketers to suddenly go crazy over a niche population?
A Cloudy Forecast
Senior executives at Hispanic Business 500 companies are divided about the nation's economic prospects – and their own plans to add staff.
HBEvents.com provides the most up-to-date information on Hispanic Business Inc. educational services and events, including the Hispanic Business Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year.
contains quantitative data and a qualitative analysis on the U.S. Hispanic
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Twilight, Inc., A Worldwide Craze
Vampires are the new black. They're cool, mysterious, appealing to all ages, and they (figuratively speaking) turn everything they touch into solid gold. Vampire-chic hit the mainstream when "Twilight" came out last year.
Now the sequel, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is expected to far surpass the first movie.
It opens in 4,000-plus theaters Friday, and it's already the top advance ticket seller of all time on Fandango and Movietickets.com. That means it's outsold "Star Wars," "Harry Potter," and "The Dark Knight."
International midnight screenings of "New Moon" have been huge; In Australia the movie grossed an estimated $1.6 million. And in its first day in theaters just in Spain and in Italy, the movie grossed nearly $5 million.
"New Moon" is on track to bring in some $100 million at the U.S. box office this weekend, and to surpass the impressive performance of the first film in the series. "Twilight," which grossed $384 million worldwide and is the year's #1 DVD, selling 8 million units in North America alone.
Summit Entertainment, the independent studio behind the movies will also cash in on Thursday, when it re-releases the original film in 2,000 theaters. That's sure to build excitement, while generating another box office boost in the process.
Needless to say the Twilight series is *great* for theater chains like Regal Entertainment and Cinemark. It should also give a boost to Hachette's Little, Brown, which publishes the series, as well as Amazon.com with its 'Twilight Store'and Barnes and Noble, which sell the book series and has dedicated merchandise sections in its stores and on its Web site complete with trivia games and interviews.
And they're not alone.
Here are some of the companies that are jumping on the Twilight bandwagon hoping to get a 'bite' of this phenomenon.
Check them out - then check out the movie trailer.
AT&T brings New Moon Mobile
AT&T raises its cool factor by giving its subscribers special access to Twilight content.
The telecom company is partnering with Summit Entertainment to create New Moon ringtones, wallpaper, mobile games, and contests.
If AT&T customers text NEWMOON to a certain short code they can access additional content.
Burger King
Vampires would like a big, juicy burger, right?
Burger King is offering a "New Moon" fan pack promotion where customers who buy a "Burger Shots" value meal get trading card collectibles and other memorabilia.
The burger retailer is also selling collectible water bottles and B.K. Crown Cards.
Volvo goes Vampire
Edward, the protagonist vampire, drives a Volvo — a S60R — so the carmaker is wisely tapping into that exposure.


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Allred: Second fan has stepped forward with allegations against Roger McDowell
Apr 28, 2011, 5:59 PM EST
When Gloria Allred gets her talons into you, you do not die easily. Fresh off her press conference with Justin Quinn, a Giants fan who claims that Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell hurled homophobic slurs in front of his young daughters on Saturday, Allred says that a fan of another team has also stepped forward to say that he was verbally abused by McDowell.
"It was an anger issue and it also involved young children," said Allred, who declined to name the fan or the ballpark where it occurred, only that he was a father who had young children with him. "The concern is it may not be an isolated (incident)."
Could it be one of these guys?
Allred said she intends to write Commissioner Bud Selig a second letter including the details. Poor Bud … he was intending to polish off the first book in the "Game of Thrones" series this weekend.
Braves continue to investigate McDowell allegations – updated [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]


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Rand McNally is integrating of its TND 760 mobile fleet management solution with Strategy Systems' Strategy Live software. Strategy Live provides turn-key, cloud-based software solutions for trucking and freight brokerage operations, focusing on small- to mid-sized transportation companies.
Rand McNally's TND 760 device will provide truck location, driver availability and other key metrics to enable efficient management of dispatch and other operations areas.
Strategy Systems had already completed integration with other mobile fleet management providers, but the company and several of its current customers were particularly interested in the TND 760 because of its low cost of ownership, ease of installation and driver experience.
The devices are also a benefit to the driver, allowing efficient communication with the home office, as well as to the company by providing any vehicle's location at all times in the process.
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Research published this week by Marie Stopes shows that of 4,000 adults not trying for a baby, a third of women and almost half of the men had unprotected sex at least once in the past year. And here's the surprising part. Around eight out of 10 of those having unprotected sex said they believed it was "very unlikely" that it would result in pregnancy or they'd contract a sexually transmitted infection. When it comes to our sex lives, it seems we cross our fingers and hope for the best. Yet 185,000 women accessed abortion services last year, which suggests that for quite a lot of us, it does happen. Half a million STIs were diagnosed last year too, some of them incurable and life-threatening.
Efforts to persuade teenagers to have safe sex and to use health-screening services seem to be having a positive effect. Looks like that bloke who said "education, education, education" might have gotten something right after all. So, if you have a teenager, here's ten things you need to know before they become sexually active.
This year on World Population Day let us celebrate the unrivalled success that humankind has had in making the world its home, and in enabling civilisation to thrive... It's in all of our interests for us to achieve what we agreed in London a year ago. Let us make the pledges of the London Family Planning Summit a reality.
Sex is a part of life, and women need to be aware of how they can effectively use contraception - and more vitally, how said contraception may not directly contradict their religious views. People live and die by the way governments and religions alike try to sweep debates on sex and contraception under the rug - so it's time to stop dismissing these topics as 'taboo'.
We see women who have become pregnant not long after giving birth, not realising how quickly fertility returned, or after misinformation about the protection breastfeeding provides against pregnancy. Sadly we also see women who simply haven't been able to negotiate contraceptive use with a reluctant partner, as well as women for whom a much wanted pregnancy is no longer possible after a dramatic change in personal circumstances. A recently conducted audit of all women contacting bpas for advice in 2011 found nearly two thirds were using contraception, including condoms, pills, patches and coils, when they became pregnant.
In reality no-one is "pro-abortion," but rather we, along with the mainstream populace of the vast majority of the developing world, are "pro the right to abortion." Each woman should be allowed and empowered to make her own decision as to whether she continues her pregnancy - according to her health, her morals, her religion, her resources and all the other circumstances she finds herself in.


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Final Report Cards for the Top 50 College Football Coaches in 2011
By Tom Perry ,
LSU may be loaded with talent, but that shouldn't detract from the outstanding coaching Les Miles displayed this college football season.
If he can get the Tigers to win one more game, Miles will earn his second BCS national championship and beat Alabama and Nick Saban twice in one season.
There aren't many coaches who can make that claim, so Miles' grade for the season is going to be pretty darn good.
How about the other top coaches in 2011?
Let's see.
Once again, Chip Kelly delivered a Pac-12 championship performance, and the Ducks will get a shot at Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
Kelly is 0-2 in BCS bowls, and he could really use a win here.
He was embroiled in some off-field issues with a scouting service, which put a damper on his reputation this season.
Kelly is dinged a bit because Oregon once again lost against a top SEC program (LSU) and lost at home to USC when a possible BCS national championship bid was on the line.
Grade: B
Georgia Tech struggled through a losing campaign in 2010, and Paul Johnson set out to get the Yellow Jackets back on track.
Tech finished 8-4, and if you look at just that, you must surmise that he did a lot right.
What I can't get past was the 2-4 finish after opening up 6-0.
Once again, Tech was thumped by rival Georgia, and the Jackets also lost to a downtrodden Miami program.
Grade: B-
Larry Fedora parlayed a Conference USA championship and 11-2 season into a one-way ticket to Chapel Hill, N.C.
Fedora will now coach North Carolina, and he nabbed that job on a reputation as being a top offensive mind.
Southern Mississippi did improve a lot in Fedora's fourth season, and the win over Houston in the Conference USA championship game is proof of how good he can be.
Grade: A
Steve Spurrier has a lengthy list of accomplishments from his time with Duke, Florida and now South Carolina.
It would be easy to argue that Spurrier did one of his best coaching jobs this year.
He dealt with the Stephen Garcia situation and the loss of running back Marcus Lattimore to a knee injury, but the Gamecocks still finished 10-2.
Grade: A
Ohio's Frank Solich has shaped the Bobcats into a perennial contender in the Mid-American Conference.
If you know anything about Ohio's history, you know this is a major accomplishment.
Solich even helped OU get its first bowl victory in school history this season.
Now he just needs to get that elusive MAC championship.
Grade: B+
Steve Sarkisian took over a Washington program that was at rock bottom.
Now he has enjoyed back-to-back seven-win seasons with a chance to get to eight in the bowl game.
Sarkisian also did a nice job with quarterback Keith Price, who took over for Jake Locker.
The expectations are going to be much higher from here on out, though. Seven wins a year just won't do it.
Grade: B-
Troy Calhoun's name has been thrown around for some of the nation's biggest coaching vacancies in the past.
However, you didn't hear his name this year.
Air Force may have delivered another Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, but the Falcons were 7-5 and a disappointing 3-4 in the Mountain West.
Grade: C
Following a BCS national championship in 2010 and the loss of extremely talented players to the NFL, Auburn was expected to fall off a bit this season.
The Tigers were almost shocked in the first week against Utah State, but Auburn finished 7-5 with a very young team.
Chizik has been impressive on the recruiting trail, which should allow him to get Auburn back on top again very soon.
Grade: B
About every three to five years, the pundits believe it's finally Notre Dame's season to break through.
Well, that's what happened to the Irish and Brian Kelly this year, so going 8-4 and losing to South Florida and Michigan to open the season is a disappointment.
Kelly didn't handle his quarterback situation with much grace, and a larger audience got to see how intense he is on the sidelines. Folks in the Big East already knew about his anger issues.
Grade: C
June Jones wins everywhere, and it looked like he would land the Arizona State job, but then it fell through.
Now he's still SMU's coach, which may be a bit uncomfortable, but he still led it to another winning season (7-5) and a bowl game.
The problem Jones faces now is questions of his loyalty to SMU.
Grade: B-
Following a 7-6 season in 2008, Bret Bielema was a bad start to 2009 away from getting fired.
It's a good thing it worked out for him and the Badgers.
Wisconsin enters its second straight Rose Bowl following an 11-2 season, which includes a victory in the first Big Ten championship game.
Wisconsin's losses came on late-game Hail Marys against Michigan State and Ohio State.
Grade: A
If you haven't seen Charlie Strong coach a game yet, then you really are missing something.
He's intense but also fun.
After Louisville opened the season 2-4, including tough losses to Florida Atlantic and Marshall, the Cardinals rebounded to get a share of the Big East championship.
Louisville finished 7-5 and will play in the Belk Bowl.
Strong accomplished this with a true freshman quarterback and an offense that was revamped.
Grade: A
Oklahoma entered the season as the No. 1 team in the nation and the talent to live up to the hype.
The Sooners were hurt by injuries, but the depth was there to overcome it.
Instead of playing for a BCS national championship, Oklahoma will face Iowa in the Insight Bowl after going 9-3.
Those losses came to Texas Tech, Baylor and Oklahoma State. The Sooners lost to the rival Cowboys 44-10.
How's that for a national title contender?
Grade: D
Mario Cristobal is under consideration for the opening at Pittsburgh, and that's because of the miracle job he has done at FIU.
When he took over, Florida International was easily one of the nation's worst programs.
Now he knows south Florida well and has kept some of that talent around.
He led the Golden Panthers to another bowl game, an 8-4 record and a big road win at Louisville.
See why he's one of the best young coaches in the game.
Grade: A
Is Skip Holtz really one of the top 50 coaches in the nation?
After this season at South Florida, it would be easy to take him out of this group. However, he started the year in the top 50.
The season started great with an upset win at Notre Dame, but the Bulls finished last in the Big East after many considered them a legitimate contender with West Virginia.
Grade: F
When you consider Tommy Tuberville led Texas Tech to a huge upset over Oklahoma, you would assume the Red Raiders would be in a bowl game.
Nope. Tech went 5-7.
Do Tech fans miss Mike Leach? Probably, but they aren't pleased with Tuberville's performance either.
Grade: D
After opening 0-2 and considering the hot seat Mark Richt was on at the time, it was nice to see him refocus his team.
Georgia reeled off 10 consecutive wins to get into the SEC championship game with LSU.
Now the Bulldogs get 10-3 Michigan State in the Outback Bowl.
Richt and Georgia should enjoy another strong season in 2012 with so much talent returning.
Grade: A-
Dana Holgorsen was supposed to be West Virginia's offensive coordinator in 2011 as he prepared to take over in 2012.
Well, there were a few issues that resulted in him taking over a year early.
Now another nine-win season in Morgantown isn't anything new, but the excitement Holgorsen delivered in his first season has created a lot of believers.
He also guided the Mountaineers into the Orange Bowl with Clemson.
Expect even more from WVU next year.
Grade: B
Kevin Sumlin and the Houston Cougars were so close to delivering a BCS bowl to Conference USA.
After going 12-0, Houston was dismantled in the conference championship game against Southern Mississippi.
However, Sumlin had a nice run at Houston, and he leveraged that into becoming one of the hot coaches in all of the big searches.
He chose to go to Texas A&M as the Aggies prepare to make a move to the SEC.
Grade: A
Bo Pelini is an intense coach. Just ask Taylor Martinez what he thinks about Nebraska's coach.
Pelini had the tough task of transitioning the Cornhuskers from the Big 12 into the Big Ten.
There were many who felt Nebraska could win the league in its inaugural season, but the Cornhuskers came up short.
Nebraska finished 9-3 and third in the Legends Division.
Grade: B-
There isn't a college coach who is under a microscope more than USC's Lane Kiffin.
Well, the much-maligned Kiffin enjoyed his best season as a coach.
The Trojans could have won the Pac-12 if not for NCAA sanctions, but a 10-2 season is a great way for Kiffin to head into recruiting and 2012.
Grade: A-
If Dabo Swinney really was on the hot seat to start the season, he quickly put that to rest as Clemson jumped out to an 8-0 start.
But lackluster performances against Georgia Tech, North Carolina State and South Carolina took a lot of luster off a breakout season for Clemson.
Swinney and the Tigers made a huge statement in the ACC championship game by thrashing Virginia Tech.
Clemson gets a nice matchup with West Virginia in the Orange Bowl.
Grade: B+
Greg Schiano built a reputation for elevating the Rutgers program to new heights.
Then came 2010, and Rutgers fell apart. Expectations this season were pretty low.
With that, rebounding to 8-4 this year and getting back to a bowl game has once again elevated Schiano's reputation.
Grade: B
The 72-year-old Bill Snyder is young when you compare him to former Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
Snyder is truly a magician and one outstanding football coach.
After the Ron Prince era, Kansas State football was about as irrelevant as it could get.
This year Snyder found Collin Klein to lead his tough group to a 10-2 season and a date with Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl.
Grade: A+
Butch Jones was supposed to take over for Brian Kelly at Cincinnati and just keep winning eight to 12 games a year.
So when the Bearcats didn't qualify for a bowl game last year, there were those who questioned Jones' hiring.
Well, the successful coach proved his value and probably would have won the Big East title outright if not for an injury to quarterback Zach Collaros.
Just leave Jones alone and Cincinnati will be fine.
Grade: A
Mack Brown has enjoyed a Hall of Fame career, but his last two seasons at Texas have been well below expectations.
Is this the start of a slow decline for Brown, or will he enjoy a resurgence next year with all of the high school talent that has been recruited to Austin?
It remains to be seen, but the improvement from 2010 to 2011 wasn't as much as Brown had anticipated.
Grade: C
Kirk Ferentz has been loyal to Iowa when the NFL and other colleges have come calling.
Of course, he is one of the best-compensated coaches in the nation, so a lot is expected of him and the Hawkeyes.
Thus, when you consider the Hawkeyes went 7-5 overall and 4-4 in the Big Ten, it seems Ferentz is coming up a bit short.
It would also be a bit shortsighted to think that way about this year's team.
Ferentz accomplished a lot with a young team, and Iowa should be a conference contender in 2012.
Grade: B
Kyle Whittingham was consistently praised for the work he had done at Utah, especially as a member of the Mountain West Conference.
Whittingham and the Utes learned what it's like to play a stronger schedule every week as a member of the Pac-12.
Utah was a disappointing 7-5 overall and 4-5 in the conference. An injury to quarterback Jordan Wynn didn't help, but so much more was expected from this team and Whittingham.
Grade: D
Say what you want about Bobby Petrino's ethics, but the guy can coach.
He has led Arkansas to back-to-back 10-win seasons, and he may just get that 11th victory against Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl.
He also did a great job working with quarterback Tyler Wilson, who should be one of the best in the SEC next season.
The only knock on Petrino this season is the two lopsided losses to Alabama and LSU, but those are the top two teams in the country.
Grade: A-
Mark Dantonio is known to be a bit surly, but he did another masterful job with Michigan State in 2011.
He guided the Spartans to the inaugural Big Ten championship game and what turned out to be one of the season's most exciting games.
Michigan State came up short and got a raw deal when it came to the BCS bowl selections, but Dantonio deserves a lot of credit for how this team played.
He also benefited from the leadership of Kirk Cousins this season.
Grade: A-
Jimbo Fisher has been the "it" coach for a while now.
His second season as Florida State's head coach was supposed to be a breakout year for the Seminoles, who are still looking to return to their former glory of the 1990s.
The talent was in place, and the schedule gave FSU some opportunities to make a statement.
However, the Seminoles struggled early in the season and finished out of contention at 8-4.
They do get a nice bowl matchup with Notre Dame in the Champs Sports Bowl.
Grade: C
Just when you think Gary Patterson is going to have a down year, the genius shows you how good he really is.
TCU opened with a heartbreaking 50-48 loss to Baylor, and the critics were wondering what was going on with the Horned Frogs vaunted defense.
Then the Frogs lost to SMU 40-33 in overtime.
But when Patterson led TCU into Boise State and pulled out a one-point win and eventually claimed another Mountain West Conference championship, you knew he was doing some of his best work in 2011.
It's going to be fun to watch Patterson coach his team up in the Big 12 next year.
Grade: A
The number of Jeff Tedford critics has been growing exponentially over the past three seasons.
It would be easy to point to this season's 7-5 record as another sign that Tedford isn't getting the job done at Cal any longer.
But you need to look a little deeper and see that Tedford is still a talented coach.
Outside of a loss to UCLA, the Bears beat everyone on their schedule that they should have. You could even say the win against Arizona State sort of evened the slate.
Cal also played rival Stanford tough and only lost to the fourth-ranked team 31-28.
Grade: B
Baylor won nine games and had the Heisman Trophy winner.
Yep, Art Briles did that at Baylor.
Grade: A+
In just his second season after taking over a Virginia program that had been decimated by Al Groh, Mike London brought the Cavaliers back to respectability.
London realizes his program has a long way to go to catch up to rival Virginia Tech, but at 8-4 and back in a bowl game, the Cavaliers are headed in the right direction.
Grade: A
In Urban Meyer's final season at Florida, critics and fans were merciless in their criticism of then-Gators offensive coordinator Steve Addazio.
Addazio answered everyone in his first season at Temple.
Yes, he had a lot of talent left over from the Al Golden days. But Addazio guided the Owls to a 9-4 record that includes a dominating victory over Wyoming in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.
Let's not forget that Temple dismantled Maryland 38-7 on the road.
Grade: A-
Maybe it was just time for Ken Niumatalolo to have a down season at Navy.
He's been loyal to the program that gave him his first head-coaching position, but you hope he hasn't missed his window for a brighter future elsewhere.
Navy did record its 10th straight win over rival Army, but the Midshipmen finished 5-7 and missed a bowl.
Grade: C+
Dave Doeren is the unknown coach who took over Northern Illinois after Jerry Kill left for Minnesota.
He's still somewhat unknown on a national scene, but if you watched the Huskies at all this season, you realize he's a big reason why they claimed their first Mid-American Conference championship.
You can watch Northern Illinois in the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Jan. 8 against Arkansas State.
Grade: A
Pat Fitzgerald has developed a reputation as a no-nonsense players' coach.
He had to start this season without his all-conference-caliber quarterback Dan Persa, and that probably cost him a few wins.
Even at Northwestern, a 6-6 season was disappointing.
Grade: C+
Al Golden knew there was some work to do when he took over the Miami Hurricanes, but he also realized the huge potential.
Then the Nevin Shapiro situation erupted and has put Miami in an awkward position.
However, Golden seems poised and focused to stick it out in Coral Gables.
He's the right person for the job, and if he's willing to stick it out the Hurricanes could become a national player again.
Grade: B
Missouri is 7-5 and playing in the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl.
Yep, that seems par for the course for Gary Pinkel, who has led the Tigers to seven consecutive bowl appearances.
Of course, he's lost two straight, and Missouri is always playing in a lower-tier game.
He also had a DWI situation this fall that put a dent in his reputation.
Grade: D
After going 8-4 in 2011, Tim Beckman is now headed to Illinois and his shot in the Big Ten.
Toledo almost pulled off an upset at Ohio State and lost to Syracuse in overtime, but only after Big East officials blew a call.
Beckman rebuilt the Rockets into a serious Mid-American Conference contender, but he was not able to win a conference championship.
If given enough time, Beckman just might win a Big Ten title at Illinois.
Grade: B
Brady Hoke may have been just what the Michigan faithful needed after three years of Rich Rodriguez.
Hoke delivered a 10-2 season and a spot in the Sugar Bowl.
But Hoke should recognize that Rodriguez laid the foundation of players that allowed him to have such a successful season, which included a win over rival Ohio State.
Grade: A
If you go strictly by his 11-2 record in 2011, you have to say Frank Beamer had a great year as Virginia Tech's coach.
But the Hokies had one of the easiest schedules and lost to Clemson twice.
The final loss came in the ACC championship game when the Tigers were reeling.
Still, Virginia Tech landed in a BCS bowl, so it was a successful year.
Grade: B+
One of these days Chris Petersen may finally leave Boise State for one of the big-time programs.
As long as he keeps winning 11 games a year, though, he'll probably stay put.
The Broncos missed a return trip to a BCS bowl when they lost to TCU by one point at home.
Petersen is one of the game's best coaches.
Grade: A-
Expectations were sky-high for Dan Mullen and Mississippi State, so a 6-6 season was a huge thud.
It hasn't damaged the market for Mullen, though.
He's been rumored to be a Penn State candidate, but he's denied it.
Grade: D
David Shaw had plenty of doubters when he took over for Jim Harbaugh at Stanford.
Now he did have the luxury of having Andrew Luck and one of the nation's best offensive lines to work with.
But another 11-win season and BCS bowl is a huge accomplishment for his first season.
Grade: A
Mike Gundy has to replay that Iowa State game in his head every night.
How Oklahoma State let that one get away from it is still beyond me.
That's all that stands in the way of the Cowboys playing LSU in the BCS National Championship Game.
Gundy still delivered a huge win over Oklahoma and a Big 12 title.
Grade: A
Nick Saban is one of the game's best, and he did another solid job at Alabama.
When you consider the tumult the program could have been in after the tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa in the spring, Saban and his team stepped up big for the community.
A three-point loss to LSU at home is all that separates the Crimson Tide from a perfect season.
Alabama and Saban will get another shot at their rival in the BCS National Championship Game.
Grade: A-
Les Miles handled all of the offseason turmoil about as well as any coach could, and he turned it into the fuel his team needed to succeed.
The Tigers are the only undefeated team in college football, and if they can beat Alabama for a second time, Miles will earn his second national championship at LSU.
Grade: A+


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Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Reactor Strategies: Adjusting to New Realities |
Peter Jelinek & Noboru Oi |
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in cooperation with the European Commission, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA) and the Uranium Institute, organised an international symposium in June 1997 with the aim of facing the "new realities" in the nuclear fuel cycle and to come to conclusions on how they should be addressed. These
new realities are:
consequences of these changes are:
order to prepare for the symposium, a steering group and six
working groups were formed, with representatives from 12 states
and 4 international organisations. The symposium covered all
aspects of the fuel cycle in six sessions corresponding to the
six working groups:
Each of the working groups wrote a key issues paper summarising the international common understanding on the issues covered. These papers were published prior to the symposium (Ref 1) and a final, edited version will be published as soon as possible. Furthermore, all orally presented papers will be published as an IAEA Technical Document (Ref 2) and the extended synopses of all oral and poster papers have also been published (Ref 3). Our report to the Uranium Institute Symposium will concentrate on the two sessions dealing with the issues of plutonium management and the future fuel cycle and reactor strategies. It is, however, necessary to briefly touch on the outlook for nuclear energy for the next 50 years in order to establish a basis for the two major topics of this paper. Global Energy Outlook The key issues paper on global energy outlook and a paper from Los Alamos (Ref 4) discussed world scenarios from different viewpoints. The result is shown in Figure 1. Present nuclear capacity is 345 GWe, producing 2200 TWh in 1995, which corresponds to about 17% of the world electricity production. The key issues paper considered three nuclear energy scenarios with the following results in 2050: high variant (IAEA/HV) 1805 GWe, medium variant (IAEA/MV) 1132 GWe, and low variant (IAEA/LV) 333 GWe. The IAEA scenarios were built based on studies by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the World Energy Council (WEC). The Los Alamos paper established an entirely new scenario based on a global energy, economics and environmental (E3) model, in which future demands for nuclear power are projected in price competition with other energy sources under a wide range of different drivers. Up to 2050 the Los Alamos curve (labelled "Total" in Figure 1) is not that different from the medium variant of the key issues paper. We are, however, not dealing with predictions but with scenarios. For our purpose - the possible requirements for the fuel cycle - it is enough to know that the truth is likely to lie between the high and the low variants. We will come back to the consequences of these scenarios later when we discuss the fuel cycle options for the next 50 years. Plutonium Management This session in the symposium dealt with the present status and immediate prospects of plutonium management up to 2015 - giving special consideration to the problems of plutonium management. If we look back some 20 years to the time of the IAEA's International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) project, not very much seems to have changed as far as policy is concerned. INFCE was triggered by the conclusion reached by the United States that a once-through fuel cycle with no separation of plutonium had the least proliferation risk and the lowest cost. Several other countries decided at the time of INFCE that the best approach to the fuel cycle was to pursue programmes to reprocess spent fuel to remove plutonium, and to recycle it to recover its energy value, while relying on safeguards to prevent proliferation. Most of these countries have not changed their positions since. In the meantime a large and viable recycling industry has been established in France and the UK, and is being established in Japan and Russia. This involves reprocessing plants, facilities for the manufacture of MOX fuel elements, and reactors licensed to use MOX fuel. Some countries, like Germany, have forgone establishing their own recycling facilities but use MOX fuel produced in other countries. Finally, it has become evident in these past decades that fast reactors will be delayed and their commercial introduction is not expected before 2030. Both the key issues paper and a paper by the NEA (Ref 5) dealt with the experience accumulated in MOX fuel fabrication, both for thermal reactors and fast reactors. In summary, 630 t of MOX fuel have been fabricated and irradiated in reactors; currently 21 thermal reactors in five countries are loaded with MOX fuel and this number is expected to rise to between 36 and 48 by 2000 (Table 1). The existing MOX fuel fabrication capacity is more than 200 t/y and will quickly rise to about 400 t/y. Therefore, recycling is now an established technology. However, it should be pointed out that in all three scenarios of the global energy outlook, 4000-5000 t of MOX fuel fabrication capacity will be needed by 2010 if all spent fuel is to be recycled. The controversy over whether recycling creates higher proliferation risks and is more costly than the once-through cycle remains. Several studies have been performed. The NEA paper came to the conclusion that the cost differences between the reprocessing option and the direct disposal option are small (direct disposal being about 10% cheaper in power generation costs) and, considering the uncertainties, this small difference in the fuel cycle costs was considered to be insignificant. A recent study by the US Academy of Sciences, however, concluded that there was no reason to change the current once-through approach because recycling would bring no benefits and would increase the proliferation risk. The
delay in recycling in either thermal or fast reactors has led
to a build-up of separated plutonium in inventories, which in
the view of many should be reduced - another of the new realities.
The key issues paper gave detailed figures on total generated
and separated plutonium and discussed the question whether and
how this plutonium inventory can be reduced. It may be worthwhile
to quote some of the figures for the end of 1995:
This means that about 135 t of separated plutonium were in store at the end of 1995. By the end of 1999 the estimated worldwide inventory of separated Pu will reach about 175 t. Through the introduction of MOX fuel this inventory will decrease after 1999 and level out at about 135-140 t (Figure 2). This model calculation assumes that each country is recycling only the plutonium that was produced in its own reactors. Since there are countries that separate plutonium from their own reactors without recycling (ie the UK, with no plans to recycle, and Russia, with the intention to recycle) the inventory will eventually rise again. This rise in inventories could be averted only by either using the plutonium in these countries or by transferring the plutonium to countries that would use it. In such a case the inventory could be reduced to less than 50 t and would remain at that level, which would be required as the working stocks for the MOX and fast reactor fuel manufacturing plants. However, even if all political obstacles to such a plutonium transfer could be overcome in the time frame up to 2015, the economics of recycling would still affect the viability of this approach. A very interesting subject discussed was the disposition of weapons plutonium. This was not only part of the key issues paper but was also the subject of two papers presented orally and several poster session papers. The fact that the two major nuclear weapons states ; as a result of the end of the Cold War - are willing to reduce their nuclear arsenals is an important new reality. This, of course, applies not only to plutonium but to HEU as well. The programme to blend down HEU of Russian origin to LEU for use in reactors has aptly been called the "Megatons to Megawatts Programme". Other very positive aspects of the disposition of weapons material are that it constitutes a truly international endeavour and that the material will be subject to international safeguards and verification at an early stage. The programme for military plutonium disposition described in a paper from the Harvard Center (Ref 6) was the subject of summit meetings between Russia and the USA, and the programme was also discussed by the P-8 Group in Paris in October 1996. However, it will have to overcome many hurdles before it can be implemented. The US has declared 50 t of plutonium as excess to military needs; Russia has declared that it will also transfer fissile material out of its military programme but has not yet declared the quantities to be transferred. It is widely agreed that the disposition programme should be accomplished as quickly as possible, but so far the necessary funds have not been identified and committed. It was fascinating, however, to hear about the tremendous amount of work that has been done under this joint programme and about the organisational structure that has been built up by the two countries to supervise the programme. The IAEA symposium had in its title "new realities". The demilitarisation of weapons plutonium is one of the most important new realities, and it is heartening to learn that not only the two major nuclear weapon states are involved, but also other countries. Examples are the Canadian study into using CANDU reactors as an economic alternative for burning MOX fuel containing weapons Pu, the AIDA/MOX Russian/French programme with German participation, and the joint Russian/French/German project for a MOX fuel pilot plant for 1.3 t of weapons plutonium per year. The difficult task of ex-weapons plutonium disposition can only be accomplished as a truly international undertaking. Even so, the disposition of 50 t of Pu will only be completed 20-40 years from when the programme begins. The US has adopted a "dual track approach" for disposition of former military plutonium, meaning that both using the plutonium in MOX fuel and disposing of it as vitrified waste should be pursued. However, the use of excess plutonium as fuel in reactors has been criticised in the USA as inconsistent with US policy of not supporting reprocessing and recycling of plutonium. The Harvard paper states: "The principal obstacle to implementing plutonium disposition in the United States is politics; the principal obstacle in Russia is money." In discussing the problem of plutonium disposition it is necessary to keep the magnitude of the problem in mind. The USA has declared 50 t plutonium as surplus; if it is assumed that Russia will dispose of a similar quantity, the total will be about 100 t. In comparison, about 50 t of Pu have already been recycled and by 1999 civil stockpiles will reach about 175 t. Adding to this the ex-military material does not change the order of magnitude of the problem. If the civil material can be handled, then the ex-military material can be handled as well. What is needed is the political will to address and to solve the problem, the necessary funds and effective international cooperation. If the need arises to dispose of large quantities of plutonium (of military or civil origin), and the capacity of thermal recycling is limited, as it may be in Russia, fast reactors could be used as plutonium burners. Future Fuel Cycle and Reactor Strategies This session of the symposium dealt with the time period from 2015 to 2050. What kind of developments in reactors and fuel cycle technologies are we going to see during this period? Will we be faced with entirely new technologies or will we rather have to rely on the continuous development of the existing concepts? How can we deal with the different scenarios for nuclear capacity discussed in the global energy outlook? In dealing with these questions, the key issues paper first introduced a set of factors influencing the future reactor and fuel cycle concepts, then it discussed the different reactor systems, and ended by defining trends in the nuclear fuel cycle. The orally presented papers deepened or supplemented the analysis in the key issues paper. It goes without saying that looking at the time period from 2015 to 2050 is more speculative than discussing the immediate future. Nevertheless, there was general agreement that the next 50 years will be dominated by thermal nuclear reactors and that these reactors will continue to play a significant role beyond 2050. So, by 2050 we will very likely see a mixture comprising a large population of thermal reactors with a small population of fast reactors. The number of fast reactors was forecast to grow steadily after 2050. However, as a paper by an international group (Ref 7) stated, "it may become essential to branch out from familiar designs in order to maintain competitiveness with other energy supply options". In general, we will have a large number of new thermal reactors characterised by the word "advanced", eg ABWR and APWR, the EPR and the advanced CANDU. For the major part of the reactor population we can expect an evolution and not a revolution. More revolutionary reactor concepts continue to be proposed, including the Radkowski Thorium Fuel (RTF) reactor, the modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), and combinations of nuclear power plants and gas turbines. These concepts will require significant further development before possible commercialisation. However, due to the inertia of nuclear technology it will be difficult for new concepts to succeed. Let
us concentrate on the direction the evolution may take. The key
issues paper defines seven factors by which future reactor and
fuel cycle concepts must be judged. These are their ability to:
What does this mean for the LWR fuel cycle? An international paper (Ref 8) introduced the concept of the "holistic" fuel cycle, ie considering the complete fuel cycle as a whole rather than as a number of individual stages. This concept integrates the various options for fuel manufacture, reactors, reprocessing, waste management and decommissioning to optimise the whole fuel cycle. What fuel cycle technologies can be expected in these next 50 years? If we go back to the global energy outlook, it can be shown that uranium resources are sufficient to cover the requirements for the low and the medium variants. In the case of the medium variant, however, there may not be sufficient uranium resources to cover the years after 2050 for reactors existing in 2050 if one assumes that these reactors will have a total lifetime of up to 40 or even up to 60 years. Therefore, ways and means to make better use of resources, and their potential influence, are of importance. Fuel
utilisation in thermal reactors can be improved in three ways:
By reduction of the enrichment tails assay from 0.3% to 0.15% almost 25% of the uranium can be saved, compared to a saving of about 17% by recycling all plutonium in LWRs. Whether all these possibilities will be used will of course primarily depend on economic and political factors. The gas diffusion enrichment plants will all be closed down in the time period we are considering, and will be replaced by centrifuge and/or laser plants. Centrifuge plants are built in small increments which enables the operators to bring in new, improved designs continuously. The centrifuge technology is therefore a moving target. However, if high uranium prices lead to very low optimum tails assays, or recycled uranium becomes important as a fuel, laser enrichment methods, which can separate isotopes very selectively, will have advantages. This is of course not to say that AVLIS, SILVA or MLIS may not be introduced in any case because of other economic advantages. For newer reactors the operational lifetime may be 40-60 years; some older designs may, however, be retired earlier. The long term evolution of fuel production and manufacturing technologies will largely be dictated by the mix of reactors that will exist. Figure 3 gives an expiration schedule for existing nuclear power plants. The number of plants will start decreasing quickly after 2010, and by about 2035 all presently existing reactors will have been shut down. The key question for the future of our industry is whether these reactors will be replaced by nuclear plants or by fossil plants. Figure 4 shows the world nuclear energy capacity from 1970-2050 taken from the medium variant of the global energy outlook. It also shows the amount of additional nuclear capacity required for the medium variant. Note that this figure assumes a 50-year reactor life, whereas a 40-year life was assumed in Figure 3. Let us go back to the fuel technology. A burnup level of 55-60 GWd/t is viewed as the limit for technical and economic reasons for fuel which is to be recycled; only fuel for the once-through cycle may be driven to burnups in the order of 80-100 GWd/t. However, new cladding materials will be required. Advanced fuel concepts may be introduced gradually between 2015 and 2050. If other thermal reactor concepts like the HTGR are introduced, different kinds of fuel elements (which may have already been developed in the past), such as fuel using coated particles, will have to be produced. This fuel could achieve very high burnups, well beyond 100 GWd/t, and would also be very useful for burning plutonium. In the case of recycling plutonium in thermal reactors there are limits to the number of recycles possible. Multiple recycling produces degraded plutonium, which limits the number of recycles in thermal reactors to two to three. Such degraded plutonium can, however, be used as a fuel in fast reactors. If such reactors or other effective plutonium burners do not materialise, spent fuel, although in reduced quantities, will still end up in final repositories. The paper by Dr Ion et al (Ref 8) postulated an evolution in which advanced or new reprocessing technologies will be commercialised in the 2015-2050 period. Existing aqueous reprocessing technology, the 50-year old PUREX process, will remain as the base technology but will be constantly improved to achieve lower activity levels, less waste and cost reductions. Several programmes are being undertaken which are not only innovative and technically impressive but also confront us with many new acronyms, including SPIN, PURETEX, ACTINEX, DIAMEX and SESAME (Ref 8). New flow sheets based on non-aqueous reprocessing methods could be introduced after 2015, the paper suggests. These processes tend to be shorter and simpler and also offer safety advantages. The methods considered are molten salt, fluoride volatility and, although it does not involve reprocessing, DUPIC (direct use of PWR fuel in CANDUs). The general trend, be it with conventional or with new technologies, is toward reduced costs and improved safety. The costs of producing MOX fuel are also expected to become lower in the near future. Present MOX fuel fabrication costs are 4-5 times higher than for conventional uranium fuel; increased MOX fuel utilisation should lead to manufacturing costs of less than three times that of uranium fuel. Thus both reprocessing and MOX fuel fabrication will become cheaper. Industrial fabrication of fast reactor MOX fuel is likely to be based on the proven MOX technology for LWRs. New developments may be closely linked to advanced PUREX and pyrochemical reprocessing methods, which will aim for co-extraction of plutonium and uranium with low decontamination factors. This will require new fabrication technologies, which may lead to the integration of fuel fabrication, reprocessing and waste treatment in one plant. Several papers at the symposium dealt with partitioning and transmutation (P+T). The aim of P+T is to separate the actinides and long lived fission products and then reduce their toxicity by transmutation. This should reduce the long term hazard of reprocessing wastes. Again, we have different views in different countries: those that follow the recycle route (eg France, Japan and Russia) and expect to introduce fast reactors in the future believe P+T to be of importance; other countries, like the USA, have studied the technique and come to the conclusion that it would not produce major benefits (Ref 9). Of great importance is of course the radioactive waste management and disposal problem. This concerns not only waste from past and present nuclear power plants, but also the huge amounts of "historic wastes" that are in store from weapons programmes. The general opinion was that disposal, be it direct disposal of spent fuel or disposal of vitrified waste coming from reprocessing plants, is primarily a political and not a technical problem. Several speakers also did not consider it as very urgent, because spent fuel and glass blocks can be stored for extended periods. However, there seems to be general agreement that for reasons of public acceptance at least one repository has to be brought into operation as soon as possible. Fast reactors are expected to be introduced gradually between 2030 and 2050. The key issues paper gave a figure forecasting that by 2040 only between 10 and 15 GWe of fast reactor capacity will have become operational (Figure 5). Some participants consider this scenario as too optimistic. A paper authored by representatives of the three countries that still have a major fast reactor programme (Russia, France and Japan) (Ref 10) dealt in detail with the research and development targets and the outlook for fast reactors. This paper also comes to the conclusion that fast reactors will not be needed before 2030-2050, and that the major necessary improvements are economics and safety. Some emphasis by oral and poster papers was been put on systems based on thorium fuel (Ref 11). Thorium represents a vast resource for nuclear energy. Although thorium fuels have been used in trials in several countries, it was the general opinion that widespread use in the next 50 years is going to happen only in a few countries, such as India. The reason for this is that there is a complete infrastructure for uranium fuel in existence and it is unlikely that a complete new infrastructure for thorium will be built up on a worldwide basis. If thorium is used it is probable that the fuel would contain thorium boosted by either uranium or plutonium, in a once through mode. Summary This paper dealt with only two of the sessions at the IAEA's symposium in detail (Present Status and Immediate Prospects of Plutonium Management and Future Fuel Cycle and Reactor Strategies) and mentioned briefly another session (Global Energy Outlook). As mentioned above there were three more sessions, and in addition a panel discussion. All in all the symposium covered the entire fuel cycle, comprehensively summarising the present situation and giving an outlook on the developments expected up to 2050. In
concluding, some of the points that characterised the discussions
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The loop is fine, the main concern is what your iPod will bang into because hanging from the loop.
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Topic tags/keywords: sander Ok everyone, I am in the market for a new Random Orbital Sander, my pos B&D one just died. I do not have the budget to go all the way and get the festool one so I am torn between The Ridgid Or The Milwaukee Price points on the 2 are the same. Any and all suggestions welcome….. Well except for those that say get the Festool, cause that just is not in the cards. |
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I like my DeWalt 5" ROS. It's been a workhorse for about three years and still goes strong. -- Adversity doesn't build character...................it reveals it. |
#2 posted 1167 days ago |
I have Porter Cable one that I Really like but I think they are a bit over priced -- My favorite projects were firewood bound |
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I have the Milwaukee and it is a great tool. Feels good in the hand and has a lot of speed settings if needed. i don't think you would be disappointed if you got it. -- Guy Kroll www.thelandsathillsidefarms.org |
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Thanks for the input. Guy I am leaning towards the Milwaukee myself I think. Longer warranty for one reason. Also I have an old Milwaukee Router that I do all of my free hand work with. I got it used and I have had it for 10 years and it still performs like a champ. Have not even had to replace the brushes. I also have the Port-A-Band from Milwaukee and that is a nice little luxury to have. My main 3 stationary tools are all Ridgid and that is why I even looked at that one. Then noticed the price was the same on them. |
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I would give you my advice on ROSs but I see in your last sentence that my advice would not be welcomed. -- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it. |
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Rich, LOL I just wish I had it in the budget to get some festool itmes, but are they really THAT good?? Thanks for the comment |
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I have a Porter Cable 6" and a Bosch 5" They both work well, but the Bosch is a little smaller and I tend to use it the most. It also has dust collection. I would think the Bosch is about the same price range as the ones you listed. I got it at Lowes for around $70. -- Wayne - Plymouth MN |
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People will not want to here this, but I have been using the same one for over 6 years from Harbor Freight, I think I paid with the coupon about 10.00$ -- Ray |
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I have the Ridgid 5" and love it. Very comfortable to hold. The slow start is a nice feature too and it does a pretty good job at dust collection. -- - Eric Indianapolis, IN |
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The B&D one went toast in a little over a year. There is no way I would think a HF one would last me. Mind you it was the cheapest B&D ROS I could find at the time. Money was way tighter back then. This year I got Christmas bucks to spend so I am trying to get an upgrade. Snowy, the bosch that you use, is it the one that has been reviewed several times on here? I was looking at that one as well, but it is not varible speed. Is that an issue? Also the motor is slightly smaller and so is the weight. While I do not want a sander that weighs a ton, some heft is needed right? |
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I cast my vote for the 5" Ridgid. I have 2 of them, and work them real hard. I build Ipe decks, and I sand every one of them with the Ridgid. You can't slow them down, even with a lot of pressure. No, I don't work for Ridgid…just a happy customer. -- Steve-- http://www.urbanexteriors.biz |
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The one that I have is the Bosch ROS20VS. It does have varible speed. I think the newer model which is the ROS20VSK is the same sander also with varible speed. It sells for about $72 on Amazon if you cant find it at Lowes. I would get one with varible speed. It comes in handy. The Bosch has plenty of power for its size. -- Wayne - Plymouth MN |
#13 posted 1166 days ago |
I have not used the Ridgid (I own a Ridgid BS & drill), but the Milwaukee is a good sander. I am currently using the DeWalt and really like it better. The only thing I don't like about the DeWalt, is that the dust bag can be stubborn to remove. But it does work well with a vacuum line (as does the Milwaukee.) ToolKing has recon's at really good prices…and they stand behind what they sell. We have used them for years. My brother has the Festool and it is his favorite, but I'm like you, it's just not the cards. He does it for a living, I don't. |
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The Ridged is actually a really good ros. With that said I use-and would recommend-the Bosch. -- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." ― Aldous Huxley |
#15 posted 1166 days ago |
Those are 5" sanders. While 5 inchers are useful if I could just I've read good things about the Ridgid 6". The old standby is the |
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