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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. Most nuclear plants around the world today are large light-water reactors, with capacities well over a gigawatt—quite a bit more than typical coal plants. On 13 September, the U.S.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mobile Energy-Crop Phenotyping Platform (MEPP) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with its partners Cornell University and Signetron Inc., The C-TEC uses an array of electrochemical cells to produce electricity in a sodium ion expansion cycle driven by external combustion.

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

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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. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. DOE grant: $7,200,000). CARBON CAPTURE.

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