Sept. 26, 2016  Good news for many seniors: Medicare Advantage premiums will remain stable and more enrollees will have access to higher quality plans in 2017, according to word last week from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)... premiums and costs for Medicare health and drug plans for the 2017.
Germany's nuclear ship NS Otto hahn at sea. The NS Otto Hahn's reactor is removed during decommissioning. The German-built NS Otto Hahn is one of only four nuclear powered cargo vessels ever built (the others are the NS Savannah, the Russian container ship Sevmorput, and the Japanese NS Mutsu). Configured to carry passengers and ore, the NS Otto Hahn was powered by a single 38 MW reactor which first achieved criticality in 1968.
The world's biggest container ships have 109,000 horsepower engines which weigh 2,300 tons. Each ship expects to operate 24hrs a day for about 280 days a year. There are 90,000 ocean-going cargo ships. Shipping is responsible for 18-30% of all the world's nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution and 9% of the global sulphur oxide (SOx) pollution. One large ship can generate about 5,000 tonnes of sulphur oxide (SOx) pollution in a year