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Selectmen go through warrant; Town meeting money requests are cut by board.(LOCAL NEWS)
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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October 11, 2007
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Byline: Sandy Meindersma
RUTLAND - With less than $100,000 to spend, the Board of Selectmen cut 23 of the 52 proposed articles for the Oct. 29 special town meeting warrant.
The board Tuesday night also decided to add two articles to expand the position of the Council on Aging director to full time.
The warrant now includes two borrowing articles and two Proposition 2-1/2 override articles.
Donald R. D'Auteuil, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said Town Accountant Daniel Haynes estimated available "free cash" to be $475,000, and the balance of the stabilization ...
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HOW STUFF WORKS: ; Radioactive americium controls smoke detectors
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...a tiny, harmless bit of radioactive americium that makes inexpensive smoke detecting...amount (perhaps 1/ 5000th of a gram) of americium-241. This radioactive element has...knocking off electrons, which makes americium great for an ionizing smoke detector...
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Explosive secrets.(it has been widely known that plutonium and enriched uranium can be used to make nuclear weapons, but it also possible to make such a weapon using neptunium and americium )(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
; ...be concerned about the neptunium and americium found in nuclear waste streams, because...devices using neptunium 237. Neptunium and americium--man-made materials produced when...Albright and Barbour say that neptunium and americium have received little attention because...
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Theragenics and Yale-New Haven Hospital sign joint agreement. (Develop and market Americium-241 device)
PR Newswire
; ...agreement in principle to jointly develop and market an Americium-241 device for the treatment of intrauterine...represents a new and innovative use of the isotope Americium-241. The Americium device will allow physicians to deliver a maximum...
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GREECE: PLUTONIUM AND AMERICIUM FOUND BURRIED IN FOREST.
Newspaper article from: Europe Environment
; ...the presence of a total of about 3 grams of plutonium and americium. EEAE President Leonidas Kamarinopoulos indicated that the...which does not occur naturally, is highly carcinogenic. Americium is likewise a radioactive derivative. The EEAE has taken...
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NRC EVENT NOTIFICATION REPORT FOR SEPT. 15: AGREEMENT STATE - AMERICIUM 241 LEVELING DEVICE MISSING
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...EMERGENCY10 CFR Section: AGREEMENT STATE AGREEMENT STATE - AMERICIUM 241 LEVELING DEVICE MISSING "On September 9, 2008, the...licensed devices, a device containing 100 millicuries of Americium (Am) - 241 could not be located. The device was installed...
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East Ayrshire selects shortlist.(Americium, HBG and consortium of Hochtief and Barr and Dawn)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Public Private Finance
; East Ayrshire Council has shortlisted Singapore-based Americium, HBG and a consortium of German construction firm Hochtief and Scotland's Barr and Dawn for its grouped schools scheme. The...
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NRC RECEIVES REPORT FROM DIAGEO ON MISSING AMERICIUM-241 SOURCE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...License #: GENEREALAgreement: YDocket: NRC Notified By: RAY MANLEYHQ OPS Officer: BILL HUFFMAN AGREEMENT STATE - MISSING AMERICIUM-241 SOURCE The following information was provided by the State of Maryland via facsimile: Diageo is a State of Maryland...
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Earth To Mars In TWo Weeks.(design of americium-fueled nuclear rocket)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Popular Mechanics
; ...nuclear rockets of the 1960s that used uranium and plutonium fuels, the new engine would be powered by a form of the element americium (Am-242), says its designer, Yigal Ronen of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The advantage of Am-242...
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Contract Awards: NRD Wins $70,000 Federal Contract for Radioactive Americium 241 Recovery, Recycling
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Air Force has awarded a $70,000 federal contract to NRD LLC, Grand Island, N.Y., to recover and recycle radioactive Americium 241 from Government Furnished Property, M8A1 Chemical Agent Detector Cells.For more information about US Fed News contract...
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NRC EVENT NOTIFICATION REPORT FOR MARCH 9 : AGREEMENT STATE - MISSING AMERICIUM-241 SOURCE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...License #: GENERALAgreement: YDocket:NRC Notified By: RAY MANLEYHQ OPS Officer: BILL HUFFMAN AGREEMENT STATE - MISSING AMERICIUM-241 SOURCE The following information was provided by the State of Maryland via facsimile: Diageo is a State of Maryland...
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