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AUGUST 3, 2023

As Clynes explains, Sparc’s planned successor, Arc, will feature a molten salt blanket that will absorb radiated neutrons and then pump them outside the tokamak to heat water into steam to power a turbine. Crucially, the molten salt could also breed tritium, a necessary but incredibly rare fuel for magnetic-confinement fusion.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. —Pang et al. Sadoway is formally the Chief Scientific Advisor.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Molten Salt Gasification Process. Western Hydrogen Limited reported first production of hydrogen from its Molten Salt Gasification (MSG) pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. The MSG process occurs in a single high-pressure reactor in which a carbon-based feedstock and water react with a molten salt bath.

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JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Some companies have landed on thermal storage.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Professor Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started a company, Ambri (initially Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, which comprise layers of molten material which automatically separate due to their differing densities. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Donald Sadoway.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the companies featured in the story, Gravitricity, completed its 250-kilowatt gravity battery demonstrator in Edinburgh last April and is now working on a full-scale deployment at a mine in the Czech Republic. Molten salt nuclear reactors fueled by thorium were first investigated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1950s.

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JULY 10, 2019

Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Hydroscanner: Instrumentation for water ingress imaging in photovoltaic module packaging materials, $250,000 D2Solar Inc., New York, N.Y. Madison, Wis. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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JULY 15, 2023

Fusion-energy companies have now raised more than US $5 billion, the majority of it since 2021, according to Andrew Holland , the director of the Fusion Industry Association. These companies all intend to demonstrate positive energy gain—to get more energy out of their reactions than is used to trigger them—by the end of the decade.

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APRIL 27, 2018

As part of DOE’s commitment to supporting US industry through private-public technical partnerships for nuclear energy innovation, the Department is also announcing technical voucher awards to US companies selected under the Department’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear ( GAIN ) initiative. 130,000); Oklo, Inc. 400,000).

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APRIL 27, 2012

Ionic liquids (room-temperature molten salts) are a relatively new class of materials that show promise for electrolytes in energy storage applications. It is not the best choice for lithium-ion batteries with graphite anodes, according to the company.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

A smart meter is a digital device that records and monitors the consumption of electricity, gas, or water in a home or business. Unlike traditional meters, smart meters provide real-time information on energy usage and can communicate this data remotely to utility companies.

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MAY 8, 2010

Abengoa is currently the only company with a full-scale, operational power tower, and thus proving this technology could help it reach commercial maturity. Using reflective mirrors, the sun’s radiation will heat a liquid salt within each receiver. eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8

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APRIL 10, 2013

A new company, Field Upgrading (Calgary, Alberta), has been formed dedicated to developing and commercializing the Molten Sodium Upgrading (MSU) technology. Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. The remaining product is elemental sulfur. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Background.

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MARCH 21, 2013

a San Diego-based company, will receive $95,000 to study a new crossover valve that will enable an increase in vehicle fuel efficiency by 20%. Rhotech Solar of South San Francisco was awarded $66,300 to determine the feasibility of adding a glazing layer to domestic water heaters to improve thermal performance by at least 70%.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. heating and water purification. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. . $3,734,939. Chromatin, Inc. than most crops, so that it can accumulate the fuel molecule.

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