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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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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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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $30 million in funding for 21 innovative projects as part of the Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and Semiconductors (CIRCUITS) program. Earlier post.). 1,911,984. . Eaton Corporation. Empower Semiconductor.

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