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Bill Gates’ TerraPower wins $8.5M in federal funding for conversion of used nuclear fuel

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TerraPower’s grant is the largest of the 11 announced today for ARPA-E’s ONWARDS program. The company is working with GE-Hitachi on a demonstration nuclear reactor that’s due to be built in Wyoming and go into operation by 2028, producing up to 500 megawatts of power.

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Interlune comes out of stealth with its plan to harvest helium-3 and more on the moon

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(Interlune Illustration) Seattle-based Interlune officially lifted the curtain today on its plans to build a robotic harvester that could extract helium-3 from moon dirt and send it back to Earth for applications ranging from quantum computing to fusion power. “The Blue Alchemist program is focused on producing solar arrays and oxygen.

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Future-Proofing Your Business with Hyperautomation

CIO Business Intelligence

percent to 2028, taking the value of the market for hyperautomation tools and services to $US26.67b. Process automation: the application, evaluation and monitoring of RPA tools to the processes identified above. Gartner sees these inhibitors driving an annual 11.9 trillion by 2026.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO Business Intelligence

The US Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program furnishes loans and grants to provide funds for the costs to construct, improve, or acquire the facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service in eligible rural areas.

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‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

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This month, the company expects to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an application for the certification of its Natrium reactor , which it developed with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Two years ago, the commission denied Oklo’s application to build and run a microreactor. It recruited expertise from the U.S.

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Smaller, cheaper, safer: The next generation of nuclear power, explained

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MARVEL stands for Microreactor Applications Research Validation and EvaLuation. It’s an applications test reactor where we’re going to try to figure out how we extract heat and energy from a nuclear reactor and apply it — and combine it with wind and solar and other energy sources,” said Yasir Arafat, head of the MARVEL program.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

The organization’s size, types of programs, compliance requirements, and cultural readiness are just a few of the key variables requiring consideration. Align data science and data governance programs Remember when infosec was brought in at the end of the application development process and had little time and opportunity to address issues?

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