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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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This project will demonstrate the use of advanced sensors and monitoring instrumentation on low voltage (secondary) networks in downtown Boston to improve grid reliability and safety. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). 16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA). . 10,792,045.