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DOE finalizes $21.9M award to support rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant

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million to a project led by General Atomics for the engineering, construction and operation of a rare earth separation and processing demonstration plant to be located in Wyoming. The plant will be in Upton, Wyoming, near RER’s Bear Lodge Project. Earlier post.). —Randall Scott, RER President and CEO.

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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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What is Electrification of Transportation?

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Sounds simple, but it’s more complicated than just replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs). In the US, 36% of electricity is generated using renewables, including wind, solar, and hydropower, as well as non-CO2-emitting nuclear power. Clean electricity makes a difference.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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Enefit280 was developed by Enefit Outotec Technology using Enefit’s extensive experience in Solid Heat Carrier shale oil technology and Outotec’s world-leading process and plant engineering solutions. Besides Estonia, countries with large oil shale reserves include Australia, Brazil, China and Russia.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re essential components of the permanent magnets used in the motors of most electric vehicles and many appliances, and also in the generators in most wind turbines. Wind turbines, too. On February 24, 2021, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden signed an Executive Order directing the U.S.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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a nuclear engineer at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance think tank. When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. “It’s a really exciting time for the nuclear industry,” says Victor Ibarra Jr. ,

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