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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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And yet, until now, government and industry risk assessments about EMP attacks and their effects on the power grid have been based on oversimplified models of the solid Earth that assume zero variation in depth or composition. covering portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.;

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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s power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyber attack, at least when compared to American water systems. Last month, Arkansas congressman Rick Crawford and California congressman John Duarte introduced the Water Risk and Resilience Organization (WRRO) Establishment Act to found a U.S. He says the U.S.’s

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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A Bidirectional, Transformerless Converter Topology for Grid-tied Energy Storage Systems. kVAC), 60 kW power converter design for energy storage systems connected directly to the power grid. University of Arkansas. Reliable, High Power Density Inverters for Heavy Equipment Applications.

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AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

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American Electric Power has signed on as a corporate sponsor of The Pickens Plan, proposed by oil and gas industry veteran T. Boone Pickens. AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.