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Artificial Intelligence Has Entered the Nuclear Industry and Its Early Benefits Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg

November 20, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, full coverage, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear power, oak ridge national laboratory, ornl, power, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:09:16 +0000

A collaboration between startup Atomic Canyon and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory allowed construction of a sentence-embedding model using 53 million pages of Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents

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Another Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor Begins Construction in the U.S.

July 30, 2024 admin advanced nuclear, DOE, engineering, financing, flibe, Fuel, full coverage, gen iv reactor, hermes, inl, kairos, molten salt reactor, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear demonstration, nuclear energy, ornl, power, Research and Development, supply chains, Technology, triso

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:31:00 +0000

Construction of Hermes, Kairos Power’s 35-MWth iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, has officially kicked off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced […]

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Less Carbon, More Chill Novel Refrigeration Approach Uses PCMs To Freeze, Cool Perishables

May 29, 2024 admin buildings, clean power, co2 emissions, consumer technology, energy efficiency, oak ridge national laboratory, oak ridge national laboratory (ornl), ornl, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 03:59:26 +0000

A technology developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory works to keep food refrigerated with phase change materials, or PCMs, while reducing carbon emissions by 30%. More than 100 million household refrigerators in operation across the United States consume up to 2 kilowatts of electricity daily. These refrigerators contribute to energy … [continued]

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High-Burnup Nuclear Fuel Rods Delivered for Examination After Having Completed Three Cycles of Commercial Operation

May 9, 2024 admin Business, DOE, Fuel, full coverage, ge vernova, gnf, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, nuclear power, ornl, power, Research and Development

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 12:58:46 +0000

High-burnup fuel rods, manufactured by GE Vernova’s Nuclear Fuel business, Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for […]

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Fusion Energy Project Sited at Former TVA Coal-Fired Power Plant

February 28, 2024 admin bull run, Business, Coal, DOE, fusion, news, Nuclear, oak ridge, ornl, power, project infinity, Research and Development, tennessee, tennessee valley authority, TVA, type one energy group

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:00:30 +0000

A major U.S. utility is part of a fusion energy project that would be located at the site of one of the company’s retired coal-fired power plants. Type One Energy […]

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Volkswagen Claims New Dry Battery Process Will Save Hundreds Of Dollars Per Car

June 15, 2023 admin 24m, batteries, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, GERMANY, lithium-ion batteries, oak ridge national laboratory (ornl), ornl, powerco se, salzgitter, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:41:09 +0000

Volkswagen says it has perfected a new dry battery process that will drive down costs while ORNL has a new isostatic pressure process.

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Adding Up The Benefits Of Geothermal

March 23, 2023 admin clean power, geothermal energy, ground source heat pumps, heat pumps, oak ridge national laboratory (ornl), ornl

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:05:02 +0000

ORNL researchers have developed a free online tool for homeowners, equipment manufacturers, and installers to calculate the savings and energy efficiency of ground source heat pump systems compared to traditional heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. A tool developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers gives building owners and equipment manufacturers and installers an easy […]

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New Measurements Quantifying Qudits Provide Glimpse Of Quantum Future

November 17, 2022 admin ornl, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:00:53 +0000

Using existing experimental and computational resources, a multi-institutional team has developed an effective method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, which are a type of photon source, on a single optical chip. Although the word “qudit” might look like a typo, this lesser-known cousin of the qubit, or quantum bit, can carry […]

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Existing Water Infrastructure Holds Key To Generating More U.S. Hydropower

November 3, 2022 admin america’s water infrastructure act of 2018, clean power, conduit hydropower, hydroelectric, hydropower regulatory efficiency act of 2013, oak ridge national laboratory, oak ridge national laboratory (ornl), ornl, pumped hydro storage, SCIENCE, us department of energy (doe), Water

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:31:48 +0000

The United States has a great network of waterways that is used for municipal, agricultural, and industrial purposes. With millions of miles of pipelines and conduits, the opportunity to harness that wasted energy with conduit hydropower is tremendous. In a recent study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there was great […]

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Taking It To The Streets: ORNL Models Climate Solutions For US Cities

October 1, 2022 admin baltimore, climate change, climate risks, ornl, research, texas

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:00:26 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are deploying their broad expertise in climate data and modeling to create science-based mitigation strategies for cities stressed by climate change as part of two U.S. Department of Energy Urban Integrated Field Laboratory projects. The Urban IFLs are designed to bring together scientists from multiple research institutions to collect environmental […]

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