During winter, the eggs suddenly became almost impossible to buy. Like an outbreak of bird flu undoubted through dairy and poultry farms, groceries fought to keep them on the shelves.
Scarcity and record prices in February increased costs dramatically for restaurants and bakeries and completely led some buyers to omit the basic element of breakfast. But a team based at the University of Washington in St. Louis has developed a device that could help slow down future outbreaks when detecting avian flu in air samples in just five minutes. Read the complete story.
“Carly Kay.”
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This Texas chemical plant could obtain its own nuclear reactors
Nuclear reactors could one day feed a chemical plant in Texas, which makes it the first with such installation on the site. The factory, which manufactures plastics and other materials, could become a model for hungry data centers and other industrial operations in the future.
The plans are the work of Dow Chemical and X-Energy, which last week requested a construction permit with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency in the United States that governs nuclear energy.
While they will spend years before nuclear reactors are really listed, this application marks an important milestone for the project and for the potential of advanced nuclear technology to feed industrial processes. Read the complete story.
– Casey Crownhart
