Nicholas Powl

Today’s Tech: Small nuclear reactor moves closer to first criticality test 0
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- October 12, 2026
A small nuclear reactor at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is moving closer to its first criticality test after engineers received a major part of its cooling system. The arrival of the primary coolant system gives researchers another major component to integrate into the reactor before initial testing, which the project currently expects to begin in
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Today’s Tech: General Motors rolls out first EVs using batteries with 100% recycled critical minerals 0
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- October 5, 2026
Recently, General Motors has been working on the creation of EVs utilizing batteries that contain 100% recycled nickel, cobalt and manganese, creating environmentally friendly cells that work at the same level of efficiency as other similar batteries. The company completed the loop recycling pilot with partners such as Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling material and
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Today’s Tech: New fuel cell technology could help ease pressure on U.S. power grid 0
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- September 28, 2026
As data centers continue to emerge all across the United States, an increasing demand for electricity is created, and recently, it has gotten to a level that most areas struggle to support. These facilities require drastic amounts of power to operate the computing equipment that these data centers use and keep it cool. According to
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Today’s Tech: Engineering breakthroughs bring powerful ultrafast lasers to a photonic chip 0
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- September 15, 2026
For decades, ultrafast lasers have been some of the most important tools in modern optics and devices. These lasers are capable of producing pulses that last only a few hundred femtoseconds, or in other words, quadrillionths of a second. This has enabled many advances, most notably in eye surgery, precision manufacturing or spectroscopy, the study
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