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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 0 Comments 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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Mobility, Flexibility, Scalability: SMRs Forging Nuclear’s Future

November 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments advance act, asp isotopes, Business, Canada, chalk river, China, climate change, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, DOE, engineering, Environmental, ge hitachi nuclear energy, institute for energy economics and financial analysis, Instrumentation & Controls, integrity energy, jigar shah, loan programs office, microreactors, nano nuclear, news, Nuclear, oklo, ontario power generation, Plant Design, power, Power Demand, Research and Development, rosatom, Russia, Small Modular Reactor, smr, Technology, triso, u.s., utilities now, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:08 +0000

The need for emissions-free power generation, along with the ability to provide more power when and where it’s needed, is driving research and development of smaller nuclear reactors. Energy industry

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Idaho Digital Twin Project Trailblazing for Nuclear

November 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments advanced machine learning, augmented reality, Business, cloud-based infrastructure, digital twins, engineering, full coverage, idaho national laboratory, iiot power, news, Nuclear, nuclear reactors, nuclear safety, power, predictive analytics, reactor performance, real-time monitoring, Research and Development, Technology, top plant

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:57:17 +0000

In 2023, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Idaho State University unveiled the industry’s first near real-time digital twin of a nuclear reactor. The virtual replica of the 5-Wth AGN-201 research reactor

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Westinghouse, Radiant Secure $5M for Microreactor Tests at INL’s Pioneering DOME Testbed

November 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments dome, engineering, inl, microreactor, Nuclear, power, radiant, Research and Development, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:55:53 +0000

Westinghouse and Radiant Industries have secured a $5 million Department of Energy (DOE) award to advance their microreactor designs for testing at the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) testbed at […]

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Itron, PG&E Announce Program to Support EV Charging with Grid Edge Intelligence

November 13, 2024 admin 0 Comments California, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, electrification, ev, ev charging, grid edge, itron, news, PG&E, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:49:13 +0000

Itron, which provides energy, water, intelligent infrastructure services and more for utilities and cities, announced it is joining with California utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) to make electric vehicle […]

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Power and Data Center Sectors Join Forces to Resolve Mounting Electricity Demand Uncertainties

October 30, 2024 admin Artificial Intelligence, Business, data centers, dcc, electricity demand, electrification, energy security, energy transition, ercot, full coverage, grid flexibility, grid reliability, hyperscale facilities, news, pjm, power industry, renewable energy, Research and Development, sustainability, trends, utility management

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:34:59 +0000

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has launched an ambitious new initiative alongside power companies, grid operators, and several tech giants to establish five to 10 “flexibility hubs” that will […]

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Bill Gates’ Energy Group, Former Google CEO Investing in Pacific Fusion Startup

October 28, 2024 admin Bill Gates, Business, California, climate change, engineering, eric schmidt, google, Management, news, Nuclear, pacific fusion, power, Research and Development, Silicon Valley, startup, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:52:08 +0000

A fusion energy company that counts executives such as Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates among its backers has emerged from stealth, announcing $900 million in pledged funding. Pacific Fusion, whose […]

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Advancing Carbon Capture: Supreme Court Ruling and Innovative Solutions for Reducing Emissions

October 28, 2024 admin Carbon Capture, climate change, Coal, Commentary, emissions, Gas, power, Research and Development, Supreme Court, Technology

Credit to Author: Samir Adams| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:50:10 +0000

As global efforts intensify to mitigate climate change, carbon capture has emerged as a vital technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Power generation, a major source of global carbon dioxide […]

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Simple Cycle, Combined Cycle, or a Hybrid Approach?

October 23, 2024 admin Business, combined cycle, engineering, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, hybrid power plant, news, Plant Design, power, Research and Development, simple cycle, vast power cycle

Credit to Author: Drew Robb| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:16:36 +0000

Simple cycle gas turbines provide efficiency levels of around 35% to 40%. Combined cycle units boost efficiency to 60% and beyond. But another option is emerging that combines the attributes […]

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What Are Microreactors and How Soon Could We See One in Operation

October 22, 2024 admin full coverage, idaho national laboratory, inl, marvel, microreactor, microreactors, news, Nuclear, Plant Design, power, power podcasts, project pele, Research and Development, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:40:57 +0000

Microreactors are a class of very small modular reactors targeted for non-conventional nuclear markets. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports a variety of advanced reactor designs, including gas, liquid-metal, […]

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