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    Financing for Eternity the Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Crisis of Law and Policy Precipitated by Electric Deregulation Will Face New President

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    This article will present a concise legal history tracing the development of United States national policy and law relating to the generation, transportation, storage and disposal of the high-level nuclear waste commonly known as spent nuclear fuel since the authorization of commercial nuclear power by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. It will identify and discuss the principal outstanding issues of law and policy associated with spent nuclear fuel as the nation undertakes the disaggregation and deregulation of the electric utility industry. The article will describe the principal elements of the nation\u27s transition from an electric utility industry of vertically integrated, regulated monopolies to an industry in which generation is disaggregated from transmission and distribution, and its price is determined by market forces rather than regulatory processes. The article will then evaluate the implications of this transition for the future development of law and policy relating to commercial spent fuel. As its thesis, the article will demonstrate that the emergence of a competitive, deregulated market for electric generation in conjunction with projected increases in the cost of transportation, storage and disposal of spent fuel will precipitate a financing crisis for high-level nuclear waste law and policy as currently conceived. The article will then conclude with policy proposals to resolve this crisis

    Population ecology of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) as an invasive species in the Laurentian Great Lakes and an imperiled species in Europe

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    The sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus (Linnaeus) is both an invasive non-native species in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America and an imperiled species in much of its native range in North America and Europe. To compare and contrast how understanding of population ecology is useful for control programs in the Great Lakes and restoration programs in Europe, we review current understanding of the population ecology of the sea lamprey in its native and introduced range. Some attributes of sea lamprey population ecology are particularly useful for both control programs in the Great Lakes and restoration programs in the native range. First, traps within fish ladders are beneficial for removing sea lampreys in Great Lakes streams and passing sea lampreys in the native range. Second, attractants and repellants are suitable for luring sea lampreys into traps for control in the Great Lakes and guiding sea lamprey passage for conservation in the native range. Third, assessment methods used for targeting sea lamprey control in the Great Lakes are useful for targeting habitat protection in the native range. Last, assessment methods used to quantify numbers of all life stages of sea lampreys would be appropriate for measuring success of control in the Great Lakes and success of conservation in the native range

    John Lingard in context

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    The response to Luther.

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    The literature of the counter-reformation

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    The Reformation in the parish of Whalley.

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    The education of Ignatius Loyola

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