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

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Every workday, Sarah Ansari strives to ensure that the nuclear power plant where she works is operating safely. The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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Brookhaven, U Arkansas team develop new core-shell catalyst for ethanol fuel cells

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Arkansas have developed a highly efficient catalyst for extracting electrical energy from ethanol. Much of ethanol’s potential power is locked up in the carbon-carbon bonds that form the backbone of the molecule.

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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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Over 1,000 miles away, the blast knocked out electricity supply in parts of Hawaii and disrupted telephone service for a period of time. But, as it turns out, the actual effects on the power grid of an electromagnetic pulse in outer space are strongly determined by the three-dimensional distribution of rocks beneath our feet.

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NASA awarding $6 million to 3-year ULI project to develop approach to electric aircraft fueled by liquid hydrogen

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The project includes participation from eight additional institutions: the Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing Research and Technology, General Electric Global Research, The Ohio State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Arkansas, the University of Dayton Research Institute, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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ARRA Funding for Plug Power and Customers Will Result in Deployment of More Than 304 Fuel Cell Drive Units for Lift Trucks

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Plug Power Inc. The funding will be used to integrate Plug Power’s fuel cell solutions into material handling, residential and stationary power applications. The funding will be used to integrate Plug Power’s fuel cell solutions into material handling, residential and stationary power applications. Earlier post.)

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Shell Oil replacing Ryder diesel trucks with with Ryder LNG trucks for operations in Louisiana and Texas

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The new 15 LNG fueled vehicles will replace Ryder diesel-powered vehicles in the existing fleet and will be serviced out of Ryder’s Lafayette, La. As part of this initiative, Ryder has signed a five-year fuel agreement with Shell which will provide LNG fuel for the dedicated natural gas fleet. service locations.

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ICL, CMU study associates PM2.5 air pollution in US with >30,000 deaths and reduced life expectancy

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These particles are mainly emitted from automobiles, power plants and industry, and known to be hazardous to health. was largest around Los Angeles and in some southern states, such as Arkansas, Oklahoma and Alabama. The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine , analyzed concentrations of PM 2.5 years for women, and 0.13

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