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  2. Time in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Time in Taiwan. National Standard Time digital clock of Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI), Taiwan. National Standard Time[I] is the official time zone in Taiwan defined by an UTC offset of +08:00. This standard is also known as Taipei Time (臺北時間), Taiwan Time (臺灣時間) or Taiwan Standard Time (TST). [1]

  3. International Atomic Time - Wikipedia

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    International Atomic Time. International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name temps atomique international[1]) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. [2] TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories ...

  4. Nuclear power in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear power in Taiwan. Nuclear power in Taiwan accounts for 2,945 MWe of capacity by means of 1 active plant and 2 reactors. In 2015, before the closure of 3 reactors, they made up around 8.1% of its national primary energy consumption, and 19% of its electricity generation. [1][2] The technology chosen for the reactors has been General ...

  5. Exclusive-U.S. and China hold first informal nuclear talks in ...

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    June 20, 2024 at 9:53 PM. HONG KONG (Reuters) - The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing's representatives ...

  6. Atomic clock - Wikipedia

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    Louis Essen (right) and Jack Parry (left) standing next to the world's first caesium-133 atomic clock in 1955, at the National Physical Laboratory in west London.. The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell proposed measuring time with the vibrations of light waves in his 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: 'A more universal unit of time might be found by taking the periodic time of ...

  7. Academia Sinica - Wikipedia

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    Academia Sinica (AS, Latin: Academia Sinica, lit. 'Chinese Academy'; Chinese: 中央研究院; lit. 'Central Research Academy'), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to ...

  8. List of atomic clocks - Wikipedia

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    Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science. Daejeon, South Korea. Caesium atomic clocks [25] Cs. National Metrology Centre. Queenstown, Singapore. Five caesium clocks, one passive hydrogen maser, two active hydrogen masers.

  9. History of Taiwan (1945–present) - Wikipedia

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    1945–present. Taiwan. History of. Taiwan portal. v. t. e. As a result of the surrender and occupation of Japan at the end of World War II, the islands of Taiwan and Penghu were placed under the governance of the Republic of China (ROC), [note 1] ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945. Following the February 28 massacre in 1947 ...