German Nuclear Waste Shipment Arrives Safely in UK, AP Says

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German Nuclear Waste Shipment Arrives Safely in UK, AP Says

Scientists Find Big Bang Evidence

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German Nuclear Waste Shipment Arrives Safely in UK, AP Says

  

London, April 30 (Bloomberg) -- A German shipment of nuclear waste 

arrived safely in the U.K. despite protests throughout Europe, the 

Associated Press reported, citing the government-owned British 

Nuclear Fuels Ltd. 



The shipment consisted of five containers of spent fuel rods from two 

southern German nuclear plants, and was the first such delivery to 

the U.K. in three years. Germany stopped all nuclear shipments in 

1998 after revelations that radioactive emissions had exceeded safety 

limits for years, AP said. 



Anti-nuclear protesters staged a sit-in on a road near the plant 

where the shipment originated, and demonstrators in France threw 

smoke bombs onto a rail line carrying the cargo to a port on the 

English Channel, AP said. 



There were no protesters present when the shipment arrived after its 

five-day journey in the northwestern British town of Barrow-in-

Furness, AP said, citing British Nuclear Fuels, which offers nuclear 

clean-up services. 

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Scientists Find Big Bang Evidence



NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have discovered possible traces of the 

cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and created the universe 14 

billion years ago, according to published reports. 



Two detectors in Antarctica discovered minute patterns - probably 

created by microscopic energy fluctuations - in a glow from 

primordial gases, The New York Times reported Monday. 



The glow, called cosmic microwave background radiation, carried an 

imprint of large waves to the detectors on Earth. The fluctuations 

probably set the waves in motion and agitated the young universe. 



The findings eased recent astronomer concerns that their Big Bang 

theory of the origin of the universe might be inaccurate. 



``This study provides strong confirmation that, overall, we're using 

the right model to describe the universe,'' Paul Richards of the 

University of California at Berkeley told the Washington Post on 

Monday. 



University of Chicago scientists oversee the Degree Angular Scale 

Interferometer, a microwave detector at a South Pole research station 

operated by the National Science Foundation, which made the pattern 

observations. 



The announcement was made Sunday at a meeting at the American 

Physical Society in Washington, where two other groups shared similar 

observations.



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