Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

Three MIT-led research teams have won awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs ( NEUP ) initiative to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor. Seawater uranium.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. 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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Click to enlarge.

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