US Team Sets Uranium Fuel Energy Release Record
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists are working with Babcock and Wilcox Inc., General Atomics, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to establish standards and procedures for the manufacture of commercial-scale new uranium fuels. The team has set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel (aka fuel pellets) for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs).
INL's [...]
Progress On the Path to Harvesting Heat
Starting from scratch, without trying to improve existing technology MIT’s Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Peter Hagelstein and graduate student Dennis Wu aimed to find how close realistic technology could come to achieving the theoretical limits for the efficiency of harvesting waste heat energy.
Hagelstein says, “There’s a gold mine in waste heat, if you could [...]
By Force or a Lure Will You Drive an Electric Car?
Monday Nov. 16 saw The Electrification Coalition in Washington D.C. to persuade the government to pull the financial levers for an electric car revolution. The coalition seeks a goal made with 75% of light duty vehicles to be electric powered by 2040. The group’s forecast is their goal would essentially end imported oil and improve [...]
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