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EPRI-led team awarded $2.8M from ARPA-E to research uranium recovery for next-gen reactors; deep borehole disposal

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Deep Isolation’s nuclear waste repository leverages directional drilling to isolate spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in deep boreholes located underground in suitable rock formations. The EPRI project brings Deep Isolation’s DOE grant projects this year to four. The previously awarded projects include: a $3.6-million

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EU NELLI project delivers new generation solid-oxide fuel cell; efficient and lower cost

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Companies and research organisations from Estonia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the UK were involved. The third, DEMOSOFC, is studying the implementation of a 50 kWe SOFC system with NELLHI-based stacks fed with biogas from a municipal waste water-treatment plant. NELLHI received €1.6 million (US$1.9

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