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Zeno Power partners with U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive material

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Department of Energy. The transfer of the material from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee benefits Zeno as well as the Department of Energy: Zeno — which has offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C. But strontium-based RPSs tend to be bulky, constraining their use to a limited set of terrestrial applications.

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Pacific Northwest National Lab gets green light to design and build a $75M grid storage facility

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This is an early, conceptual rendering of what the Grid Storage Launchpad facility could look like on the PNNL campus in Richland, Wash. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will begin designing and building a $75 million facility in Eastern Washington that will help develop massive batteries for grid energy storage.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO Business Intelligence

The world has woken up to the power of generative AI and a whole ecosystem of applications and tools are quickly coming to life. Memory and storage The vast amount of data generated by AI workloads requires high-capacity storage solutions that can handle both structured and unstructured data.

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National Grid’s energy transformation is fueled by IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Being on what she calls the “frontier” of the global energy transformation may keep her up some nights, but it is “rewarding” beyond words, says Karaboutis, who will be speaking at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium next week. Meanwhile, National Grid is busy building its network to interface with solar, wind, and battery storage.

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Among those ranked in the 59 th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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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. Department of Energy. It can provide a carbon-free energy source 24/7, complementing the intermittent power coming from wind and solar.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Here are four steps to getting the most out of cloud computing resources in an economical manner.

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