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Stewart hanged himself with bedsheet, authorities say

Gary Sandquist

Cuts to space research affects other innovation

Last updated Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 4:45pm

Editor,

Earlier, before NASA’s Curiosity Rover successfully landed on Mars, President Obama announced plans to reduce funding for planetary science from $1.5 billion to $1.2 billion next year with additional future cuts. If approved, these reductions will terminate NASA research including NASA’s European Space Agency partnership for probes to Mars in 2016 and 2018.

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Reduce the threat from nuclear weapons

Gary Sandquist Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 2:18pm

Editor,

The United States and Russia have large stockpiles of surplus nuclear weapons-grade plutonium in storage. Safeguarding and reducing this inventory is vital for national security. Fortunately, U.S. nuclear utilities can not only safeguard plutonium, but also eliminate it while producing electric power. This is accomplished by processing and combining plutonium and uranium into a mixed-oxide reactor fuel known as MOX.

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