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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. Behnke spent his entire career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee.

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

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Design, build, test, commission, and operate a utility-scale 20 MW flywheel energy storage frequency regulation plant in Chicago, Illinois, and provide frequency regulation services to the grid operator, the PJM Interconnection. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. 24,063,978. 48,127,957. . 10,792,045.