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GE to Open Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Plant in New York

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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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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. He served on the boards of the Electronics Industry Association of Manitoba and the Canadian Institute of Management. He also worked as a consultant in Europe.

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Hyperion Unveils Design of its Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, the Hyperion Power Module

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At the recent Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society in Washington, and simultaneously at the “Powering Toward 2020” conference in London, England, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. Global Energy Module (GEM50). Westinghouse-Toshiba. Toshiba 4S (Super Safe, Small and Simple).

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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Charged recently spoke with Graphex CEO John DeMaio, who gave us an explanation of graphite’s essential function, the current state of the industry, and some trends to watch for the future. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode? What exactly does graphite do in the anode?

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