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NRC approves rule to certify amended AP1000 reactor design; Chu: “an important milestone”

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The AP1000 is a 1,100 megawatt electric pressurized-water reactor that includes passive safety features that would cool down the reactor after an accident without the need for human intervention. additional waste-water monitor tanks. Vogtle Electric Generation Plant in Burke, Georgia. protection system instrumentation update.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention. The invention was used by the U.S.

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DOE and USDA Award $6.3M for Genomics-Enabled Biofuels Research

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These grants will be awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program begun in 2006 that is committed to fundamental research in biomass genomics, providing the scientific foundation to facilitate use of lignocellulosic materials for bioenergy and biofuels. University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. University of Georgia, Athens, $705,000.

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USDA and DOE award $8.1M to 7 biomass genomics research projects for biofuel and bioenergy

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The awards continue a commitment by the two agencies begun in 2006 to conduct fundamental research in biomass genomics that will establish a scientific foundation to facilitate and accelerate the use of woody plant tissue for bioenergy and biofuel. Katrien Devos, University of Georgia, Athens. Earlier post.). DOE-BER funded project.

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