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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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

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is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. And they are building 250 additional silos. “So It is anything but.

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Researchers develop new catalysts for a direct Fischer-Tropsch to olefins (FTO) process

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.% using catalysts that constitute iron nanoparticles (promoted by sulfur plus sodium) homogeneously dispersed on weakly interactive ?-alumina Lower olefins are key building blocks for plastics, cosmetics, and drugs. alumina or carbon nanofiber supports. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of the journal Science.

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

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Building Efficiency (3 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Energy Efficient Capture of CO 2 from Coal Flue Gas. Water (1 project).

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