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DIU awards JetZero $230M to support blended wing body (BWB) demonstrator

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The blended wing body concept reduces weight and drag in large part by the elimination of a conventional airliner’s tail section. earlier post from 2007], lends itself to conversion in the future to hydrogen propulsion, which would produce zero carbon emissions. JetZero is based at the Long Beach Airport in the Los Angeles basin.

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DOE Selects 42 University-Led Nuclear Research and Development Projects for $38 Million in Funding

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California State University, Long Beach - $1,390,252. The program will involve research on crosscutting technologies that will accelerate the development of advanced reactor concepts, including fuels, materials, and reactor modeling. The program also investigates small and medium-sized reactor concepts.

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Can Freight Train Cars Go Electric—and Self-Driving?

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I can imagine that a difficulty here will be integrating this new vehicle into an existing railroad network, since it’s such a different concept. We've had a lot of conversations with the rail industry; we're definitely calibrating off of the problems that they see. What kind of feedback have you gotten from the rail industry so far?

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