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DOE’s Decision to Build Versatile Test Reactor Coming Soon

May 18, 2022 admin advanced nuclear, Business, DOE, fast neutron, full coverage, inl, Legislative, microreactor, news, Nuclear, ornl, Research and Development, Technology, vtr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 17:53:50 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) is poised to decide whether it will build the 300-MWth Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a fast neutron national user facility that could provide the nuclear industry with a much-needed high-performance testing capability for advanced reactors and existing commercial reactors. The DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) on May 13 released […]

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Commercialization Boost for Cobalt-Eliminating Battery Technologies Developed at ORNL

February 6, 2020 admin battery storage, battery technology, Business, cobalt, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, grid storage, International, news, ornl, Research and Development, sparkz, supply chains, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:31:38 +0000

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Energy Storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five technologies from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate cobalt in lithium-ion batteries. The development portends a significant new direction for battery storage technology, which has been hindered by costs and availability of the rare metal. ORNL, which announced the […]

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DOE Speeds Up Development of Experimental Fast Reactor, Sustain Flagging U.S. Nuclear Sector

August 8, 2019 admin advanced nuclear reactors, DOE, fast reactor, geh, haleu, inl, news, Nuclear, ornl, prism, versatile test reactor, vtr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:06:33 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) officially launched development of its Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), an experimental fast reactor that will foster experiments with much higher neutron energy and flux compared to the nation’s existing 35 research reactors to develop advanced nuclear fuel for future nuclear power plants in the U.S. The facility, it says, is […]

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How Nuclear Hybrids Could Redefine the Industry’s Future

August 1, 2019 admin arizona public service, Business, desalination, DOE, eastman, Exelon, framatome, hybrids, iaea, inl, International, national laboratories, news, nrel, Nuclear, nuclear economics, ornl, pacific gas & electric, Pakistan, pwrs, Renewables, Research and Development, southern nuclear, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The world’s nuclear sector is struggling to stay economically afloat amid a deluge of renewables and natural gas power, and reinvigorating it will require operational flexibility from new or existing

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Researchers Demonstrate 120-kV Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles

November 15, 2018 admin batteries, Business, DOE, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, news, ornl, Research and Development, Technology, wireless charging

A wireless charging breakthrough demonstrated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) marks a leap toward allowing electric vehicles (EVs) to conveniently recharge within the same period that it typically takes to fill-up at a gas station. Researchers at the national laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in October said they […]

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