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Is the US-Russia Accord on Plutonium Disposition in Jeopardy?

Two recently published articles in respected outlets highlight potential difficulties in continuing the 2000 accord between the United States and Russia regarding disposition of plutonium that has been removed from nuclear weapons. Unmentioned is the...

FAS Publishes a Debate on Energy Independence

RussTech Language Services, Inc. – a leading supplier of translation and interpreting services to the energy industry – is pleased to post the following link to a recent debate conducted under the auspices of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)...

Harvesting Deep Ocean Currents

RussTech Language Services, Inc. is pleased to re-post an article from IEEE Spectrum concerning efforts to generate baseload electricity from deep ocean currents. The article can be accessed at the following link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/renewables/a-new-idea-for-green-energy-deep-ocean-current-power/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101812...

The Future of Nuclear Power: The Zero Option Is No Option At All

The Fukushima tragedy has caused many nations to reconsider their commitment to nuclear energy. Germany has decided, at least preliminarily, to eliminate nuclear power from its energy mix. France is reconsidering its massive dependence on nuclear, which...

"Most of the folks I deal with speak English."

Yes, but do you really understand one another? There are cultures in which people mean “No” when they nod and “Yes” when they shake their head from side to side. There are cultures that seldom say “No” but have a myriad of ways to say “Maybe.” There are...

The Joys of Telephone Interpreting

This blog entry was just posted to the RussTech Language Services website: http://www.russtechinc.com/blog/entry/the_joys_of_telephone_interpreting By Svita Kalinska, Translator/Interpreter I have recently served as the interpreter for a number of phone...

Wind Power in the Crimea

Staff Translator Svita Kalinska posted the following information on the RussTech Language Services website: I became interested in the development of wind power in Crimea for a number of reasons. I was born and raised in Feodosia on the Eastern tip of...

The Threat of Chemical and Biological WMD in Syria

This is not the normal subject matter for a RussTech blog, but it seems important enough to warrant wide dissemination. The March 2012 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists contains an article on the real threat posed by huge stockpiles of chemical...

Congressional Research Service Report on US Solar PV Manufacturing

The Federation of Atomic Scientists (FAS) recently posted a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the US Solar PV Industry. CRS reports are not routinely distributed to the general public. RussTech Language Services, Inc. is pleased to provide...

Russian Accession to the World Trade Organization

Amid the political upheavals in Russia last December following the Duma elections, a much quieter and potentially more meaningful revolution took place: the World Trade Organization admitted the Russian Federation to membership. See: Russian Analytical...

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