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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus, part of the UK fusion cluster.

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Sheffield Forgemasters leads $14M project to industrialize electron beam welding for nuclear reactors; SMR application

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Furthermore, elimination of the preheat step is possible since the EB process is carried out in a vacuum environment. The company will install an electron beam welder capable of welding 3.0m A control electrode, or grid, is situated close to the filament and is held at a negative potential in respect to it. Narrow fusion zone.

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DOE announces $70M for Innovation Institute on Smart Manufacturing; advanced sensors, controls, platforms, and modeling for manufacturing

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When aligned with business models and communication networks, the use of Smart Manufacturing technologies can improve manufacturing efficiency through the real-time management of energy, productivity and costs at the level of the machine, factory and enterprise, including improved integration with the electric grid. Technical Topic Areas.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Once electric cars are more common, demand for electricity will rise, and electricity producers will have to look at big generators such as dams, nuclear stations or decentralised wind turbines that feed in to the grid.