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US DOE awards EPRI $5.1M for advanced nuclear technology

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DOE announced previous funding awards in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, which allows a broad scope of proposed concepts and ideas that are best suited to improving the capabilities and commercialization potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies.

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NHTSA launches Tesla Autopilot investigation over crashes with emergency vehicles

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The NHTSA has identified 11 collisions since 2018 involving Teslas on either Autopilot or Traffic-Aware Cruise Control which ended up hitting parked emergency vehicles. “NHTSA reminds the public that no commercially available motor vehicles today are capable of driving themselves.

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Panda Power finances conversion of retired coal plant to natural gas; one of largest power conversion projects in US

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The plant is expected to supply large power markets, including Philadelphia and the New York metropolitan area, when it enters commercial operations in the first quarter of 2018. The turbines for the Hummel generating station will be manufactured at Siemens’ manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Is standard lithium LTD a sham?

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Albemarle : Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a market cap of $26.8bn. Pure Energy used extensive stock promotion but failed to commercialize DLE. LiSTR is based on three patent applications it purchased in 2018 from an apparent one-man engineering shop. It reported a revenue of 2020 $839.26 m it reported in 2016.