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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Drinking water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally , according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa.

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Galvanic, IBAT testing proves Smackover brine is DLE compatible

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I’ve written here in the past about my company’s Smackover prospect in southwest Arkansas. We discovered in our research that International Battery Metals (IBAT) had patented a modular DLE plant that was ready for a large-volume test. Of the fresh water used, 94% of it was recaptured and recycled, thus minimizing its consumption.

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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POETS will be led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Howard University, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas. The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. Nature-inspired soil engineering.

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