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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? The symptoms start with a check engine light (CEL) that sometimes comes on. Sometimes the engine water pump might leak. Code P0016.

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NuScale Power receives US NRC design approval for small modular reactor

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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed the Phase 6 review—the last and final phase—of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) and issued the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER). NuScale’s DCA was completed in December 2016 and accepted by the NRC in March 2017.

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US DOE announces $26.9M for advanced nuclear technology

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Two awards will advance flexible operation of light-water reactors with integrated hydrogen production systems. Subsequent application reviews and selection processes will be conducted through December 2022, as supported by Congressional appropriations. These projects, valued at $26.9

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SSE’s Aberdeen teams road testing First Hydrogen’s green hydrogen-powered van

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The light commercial vehicle (LCV) has spent the last few weeks operating from one of SSE’s sites in Aberdeen, which is located next to a hydrogen fuel station. The company has developed hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered light commercial demonstrator vehicles (LCV) under two agreements with AVL Powertrain and Ballard Power Systems Inc.

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NuScale boosts SMR module output 25%

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The power increase will be reviewed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission as part of NuScale’s Standard Design Approval (SDA) application, which NuScale is scheduled to submit in 2022. The regulatory process of increasing the level of maximum reactor power at which a nuclear plant can operate is referred to as a power uprate.

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Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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Over the last decade, momentum has been building to transform the Haber- Bosch (H-B) ammonia industry toward renewable sources of hydrogen, for example, from water electrolysis or solar thermal cycles. The H-B process is no longer required; instead, the reaction is driven by electrochemical reduction and the H source is water.

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US DOE to award up to $100M over five years for solar fuels research

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While several approaches could potentially enable fuel production using sunlight as the only energy input, the new FOA focuses solely on artificial photosynthesis approaches: the direct use of sunlight, water, and abundant feedstocks for liquid fuel production.

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