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<p>The Pacific Northwest's time as a major source of the world's aluminum is likely past, an economist told a regional conference.</p> <p>The high cost of electricity needed to produce aluminum and the low prices that aluminum brings make it too expensive to operate the region's smelters, Terry H. Morlan said Friday in a presentation at the Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference.</p>

GERMAN prosecutors are questioning the head of a company suspected of trying to export aluminum tubes to North Korea that could be used for making nuclear arms, the Stuttgart prosecutors' office said. The company shipped tubes listing China as the destination without a permit from Germany's Bafa Export Agency, prosecutors' spokesman Eckhard Maak said. The deal was arranged by a North Korean middleman, arousing the suspicion that the real destination was North Korea, he said. "It's a hypothesis right now that North Korea was the final destination," Maak said in an interview. Whether the purchaser was North Korean or Chinese,...

Aluminum in Drinking Water Tied to Alzheimer's Mon Apr 14, 5:54 PM ET By Jacqueline Stenson SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) - Adding support to a controversial theory linking aluminum with Alzheimer's disease, new research indicates the disease is more common in regions of northwest Italy where levels of aluminum in drinking water are highest. And when the investigators studied the effects of one form of the metal on two types of human cells in the lab, they found it hastened cell death. "We were absolutely surprised by these results," said study author Dr. Paolo Prolo, a researcher at the University...

WASHINGTON — Near Natanz in central Iran, 160 newly minted centrifuges stand in neat rows inside a nuclear complex that the United States and other countries were surprised to learn about seven months ago. This year, they will begin spinning hot uranium gas into nuclear fuel. In a nearby building, workers are assembling parts for 1,000 more centrifuges, part of 5,000 machines that will be linked in a vast uranium-enrichment plant under construction. When the project is completed in 2005, Iran will be capable of producing enough enriched uranium for several nuclear bombs each year. Details about the Natanz complex...

<p>BOSTON — Massachusetts could become the first state to ban aluminum baseball bats in high school play, a move prompted by injuries from line drives that can rocket through the infield at close to 100 mph.</p> <p>The state Interscholastic Athletic Association on Thursday will consider banning the bats from next year's state tournament. It will also decide whether to recommend a ban for all high school games.</p>

Saddam Hussein is developing nuclear capability, using pirated centrifuges to refine uranium IRAQ is using pirated copies of German equipment to process nuclear material in an assembly line that will regularly produce nuclear weapons, an Iraqi scientist who led a section of the Iraqi nuclear bomb programme before his defection in 1994 claims. President Saddam Hussein may need only months more to put together up to three nuclear cores, if he has not already done so while his programme has not been monitored, the defector says. Dr Khidir Hamza also said that, even if given unfettered access, UN inspectors would...

Thursday November 01 02:13 PM EST Spores, Additives Raise Iraq Questions By ABCNEWS.com Suspicion of an Iraqi link to anthrax attacks in the United States grows.   Former U.N. weapons inspectors tell ABCNEWS they've learned the anthrax spores found in a poison letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle are nearly identical to those discovered in Iraq in 1994. ABCNEWS has learned that at least two European chemical companies make aluminum-free bentonite, meaning further tests are needed to rule out the presence of the troubling additive in an anthrax-laced letter that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Though ...

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Alcoa Donates Materials, Engineering Expertise for Mars Habitation Station Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 10:32 AM ET NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2002--Alcoa aluminum might be going to Mars. Alcoa has donated approximately 1,500 pounds of 6061-T6 aluminum sheet and treadplate along with engineering expertise to the Mars Society, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars. The aluminum products were used to produce the skin of the Mars Habitation Station (MarsHab), a test facility designed for living on the Red Planet. The MarsHab is the centerpiece for the Mars...

WASHINGTON, July 9 — The fizz has gone out of the recycling business. For the first time in more than 20 years, Americans are throwing away more aluminum cans than they recycle. Environmental groups and industry groups alike see it as an ill omen for the rest of the recycling business because aluminum soft-drink and beer cans are the single most valuable consumer commodity being recycled. WHILE POLLS show Americans overwhelmingly support recycling, the data show they are doing it less than they did in the early 1990s. “People are just too busy,” says Jennifer Gitlitz, research director for the...

Transparent Alumina - Three Times Stronger Than Steel A ceramic research lab in Dresden, Germany, has developed transparent Alumina by subjecting fine-grained (I'm guessing extremely fine-grained) aluminum to a whopping 1200 degrees Celsius ...the result of which is amazingly light but three times tougher than hardened steel of the same thickness, and it's see-through.  Needless to say, the Pentagon is quite interested.        For story (in German)  http://www.spiegel.de  According to a post at Slashdot (News for Nerds) this is not transparent aluminum but transparent Alumina, which is aluminum oxide - Al2-O3. Also found this link here, which...