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Feb 27 | News
Intended
to help cut red tape for business and startups wanting to do business
with the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s research laboratories, the new
Agreements for Commercializing Technology (ACT) program was recently
launched as a third alternative to the two preceding options: signing a
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) or a Work For
Others (WFO) Agreement.
11/22/2011 | News
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source. When the rover Curiosity heads to space, it will carry the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, the latest "space battery" that can reliably power a deep space mission for many years.
11/16/2011 | News
In
terms of emissions, just one pound of sulfur hexafluoride, a nontoxic
gas used in electric insulation, is equivalent to about 11 tons of
carbon dioxide. Energy Department experts are hunting down this and
other fugitive carbon emissions and have already prevented the release
of 600,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent.
10/4/2011 | News
Materials irradiated inside a nuclear test reactor are typically highly radioactive, forcing researchers to use remote manipulators that often hinder the precision required to prepare samples for nanoscale microscopic analysis. Idaho National Laboratory has pioneered a new technique that clears this hurdle.
8/15/2011 | RD 100 Awards
Using the properties of foods like Jell-O, researchers have
developed an effective, patented chemical-foam-clay decontamination process
called Rad-Release Chemical Decontamination Technology. The two-part
process attaches to vertical surfaces and can be tailored to specific
radiological and metal contaminants.
8/15/2011 | RD 100 Awards
A battery test invention from Idaho National Laboratory called the Impedance Measurement Box (IMB) provides two key but previously ignored metrics regarding battery performance: pulse resistance and power capability.
8/12/2011 | News
Taking
inspiration from a bank’s drive-up pneumatic canister transport system,
engineers at Idaho National Laboratory have installed a new specimen
shuttle system that dramatically improves the duration range of
experiments.
5/17/2011 | News
Efficiency
is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20% of
available
light. Now, a Univ.
of Missouri engineer has
developed a flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90% of
available
light, and he plans to make prototypes available to consumers within the
next
five years.
5/4/2011 | News
This
week, the Department of Energy dedicated the Consortium for Advanced
Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), an advanced research facility
that will accelerate the advancement of nuclear reactor technology.
Supercomputer modeling will be used to study the performance of
light-water reactors and accelerate upgrades at existing plants.
4/8/2011 | Featured Articles
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Ill.) has recently
commercialized its lithium-rich composite cathode technology for
lithium-ion batteries with licenses to GM, Envia, Toda
Kogyo, LG Chem, and BASF.
