Fully Digital Nuclear I&C Upgrade Gets ‘Unprecedented’ NRC License

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:18:42 +0000

A fully digital nuclear reactor instrumentation and control system (I&C)—the first of its kind in the U.S.—at a Purdue University research reactor in West Lafayette, Indiana, has been licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  Upgrades to digitalize Purdue University Reactor Number 1 (PUR 1)—a pool-type12-kWt reactor (that runs at 1 kW) originally built in […]

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Cheap and green: Pyongyang upgrades its mass transit system

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 02:01:05 +0000

Cheap and green: Pyongyang upgrades its mass transit system

PYONGYANG, North Korea  — Pyongyang is upgrading its overcrowded mass transit system with brand new subway cars, trams and buses in a campaign meant to show leader Kim Jong Un is raising the country’s standard of living.

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