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 Navy plans regular nuclear refueling overhauls for its Nimitz-class carriers which began with the USS Nimitz in 1998 - at a cost of $1.2 billion. This major life-cycle milestone in a nuclear-powered ship is a process that takes approximately 33 months to complete and needs to be done about every twenty years.