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MAY 6, 2023

Westinghouse Electric Company launched its newest nuclear technology, the AP300 small modular reactor (SMR), a 300-MWe (900MWth) single-loop pressurized water reactor. The AP300 SMR can function as the backbone of a community clean energy system.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The funding is part of the ARPA-E MINER program ( earlier post ), which prioritizes funding technologies that support novel approaches to increases the mineral yield while decreasing the required energy, and subsequent emissions, to mine and extract these energy-relevant minerals. —Paris Smalls, CEO and co-founder of Eden.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that an agreement has been reached to support possible siting of an innovative small modular reactor (SMR) project within DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. NuScale Power has developed a small, scalable pressurized water reactor technology, engineered with passive safety features.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $20 million in funding to a project to demonstrate technology that will produce clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Earlier post.) Most of the nation’s used fuel is stored at more than 70 reactor sites across the country.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

And chip fabs need a lot of water to operate. By some estimates , a large chip fab can use up to 10 million gallons of water a day, which is equivalent to the water consumption of roughly 300,000 households. to open up its plants to inspection to demonstrate their water conservation efforts.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking applications for projects in “Nuclear Coupled Hydrogen Production and Use.” This amendment was issued by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy Light Water Sustainability Program, in coordination with DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The Energy Department (DOE) recently announced $10 million, subject to appropriations, to support the launch of the HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium ( HydroGEN ). Currently, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) funds research and development of low-carbon hydrogen production pathways.

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JULY 7, 2023

Lightbridge Corporation, an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, announced that Texas A&M University (TAMU) has been awarded approximately $1,000,000 by the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program R&D Awards to study the deployment of advanced nuclear fuels in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

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APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new electrode material for a protonic ceramic electrochemical cell (PCEC) that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. Water splitting reaction on oxygen electrode and PNC’s hydration. (a) The triple conducting oxide of PrNi 0.5

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MAY 7, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded FuelCell Energy $8 million in Phase 2 funding for the previously announced ARPA-E project for development of ultra-high efficiency SOFC systems for power generation ( earlier post ). Electrolysis uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, the opposite of fuel cell operation.

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MAY 21, 2010

As part of a broad effort to expand the use of nuclear power in the United States and reduce carbon pollution, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today Department’s first conditional commitment for a front-end nuclear facility. Existing reactors will need additional sources of enriched uranium soon. Secretary Chu.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding for three domestic projects that will accelerate advanced nuclear technology development. Two awards will advance flexible operation of light-water reactors with integrated hydrogen production systems. Under this proposal, FuelCell Energy Inc. These projects, valued at $26.9

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck (M 2 FCT) and the H2NEW consortia to advance fuel cell truck and hydrogen production R&D. H2NEW will have the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory as co-leads.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a dimethyl ether-driven fractional crystallization process for separating rare earth elements and transition metals. This separation process involves low energy and reagent requirements and does not contribute to waste generation. —Stetson et al. atmospheres.

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JULY 26, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will fund 49 new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research and development projects across 23 states, totaling nearly $53.4 million in funding. manufacturing industry.

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JULY 18, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $10.9 Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert a carbon feedstock and water into hydrogen. The MSG process occurs in a single high-pressure reactor in which a carbon-based feedstock and water react with a molten salt bath.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Professor Jie Lian has been awarded $500,000 from the US Department of Energy as part of the Nuclear Energy University Research Program (NEUP) to conduct research and develop new materials that will make advanced nuclear reactors more resilient and economically efficient.

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Idaho National Laboratory.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA?E) E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Earlier post.)The

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $33 million in funding to support innovative hydrogen and fuel cell research & development (R&D), infrastructure supply chain development and validation, and cost analysis activities. ( FOA topics include R&D in: Fuel cells for heavy-duty trucks in coordination with the M2FCT consortium.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Although overshadowed by the announcement on denial of a Presidential Permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline ( earlier post ), on Friday, the Obama administration also on Friday announced and highlighted a number of actions to sustain and advance nuclear energy in the US.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems (N-R HESs) can enable low-carbon, on-demand electricity while providing reduced-emission thermal energy for industrial processes. However, the economic feasibility of these systems may depend on future natural gas prices, electricity market structures, and clean energy incentives.

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MAY 28, 2014

NuScale Power has finalized the cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) as an awardee under the program for “Cost-Shared Development of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs.” The agreement calls for NuScale to receive up to $217M in matching funds over a five year period.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Having an energy source that you can fit onboard a ship and does not compete with shore energy is a very high priority.” In South Korea, nine organizations, including shipping companies and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute , plan to develop and demonstrate large ships powered by SMRs.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

million investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG), originally developed at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL). A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. H 2 : 65% volume.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The production of hydrogen production via water electrolysis using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) offers favorable thermodynamics and kinetics, and is considered the most efficient and low?cost cost option for hydrogen production from renewable energies. Now, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a self?architectured

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MAY 3, 2012

Algasol’s floating bags or photobioreactors (PBRs) can operate in the ocean or in salt water ponds on land. Algasol has received a patent in 70 countries for its method of floating bags using relative water density. —Miguel Verhein, executive director of Algasol Renewables.

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JULY 29, 2013

The first participants included Google, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Duke Energy and Clemson University, with installations in the Spring of 2012. The last of the Apollo Program Plugless units will be installed next month at UC Davis and the City of Sacramento.

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JULY 1, 2013

The participating utilities, Energy Northwest and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, have assessed regional strategies for reducing long-term carbon emissions including replacing aging coal-fired units, as well as meeting forecasted energy demand growth, and concluded that SMR technology is a vitally important option.

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MARCH 11, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected 33 small businesses to work directly with DOE national labs to accelerate the commercialization of new clean energy technologies. The department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is investing nearly $6.7 Midwest Energy Group, working with NREL. Wind Power.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with Natural Resources Canada. Heat pumps can reduce emissions and cut energy costs The DOE is pushing for wider adoption of heat pumps because of their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The study found that if every heated home in the U.S.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

In an EM 2 fuel cycle, this material can satisfy US energy demands for centuries, GA says. EM 2 will also provide three times the energy per pound of fuel compared to current technology and reduce waste by 80% utilizing just a single pass through fuel cycle, GA says.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has offered a $102.2-million The project will use an improved technology to extract energy from rock and fluids in the earth’s crust more efficiently. In typical binary geothermal power projects, hot water is drawn from wells as deep as 4,500-6,000 feet below the Earth’s surface.

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APRIL 30, 2014

The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The US Department of Energy (DOE) tasked ORNL with evaluating the new stream-reach development resource potential of more than 3 million US streams. Source: ORNL NSD. Click to enlarge.

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