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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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Fast breeder reactors date back more than half a century, when the global nuclear community thought there wouldn’t be enough uranium fuel available for the nuclear-power industry. Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. Natural uranium is composed of only 0.7

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Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

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Only about 3% currently is generated from wind, solar, hydroelectric and other renewable sources, with most of the electricity produced in the United States currently coming from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, followed by nuclear according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. Specifically, an aqueous sodium-ion based electrolyte is used in conjunction with simple highly scalable electrode materials housed in low cost packaging.

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WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths

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Poor women and children pay a heavy price from indoor air pollution since they spend more time at home breathing in smoke and soot from leaky coal and wood cook stoves. million deaths in 2012 in households cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves. Flavia Bustreo, WHO Assistant Director-General Family, Women and Children’s Health.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Water (1 project). Target energy density is 6-20 times that available state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries and at.

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