Accident tolerant fuel: Ensuring safe, sustainable and reliable nuclear power plants

Professor Brent Heuser discusses the development of accident tolerant nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Global climate change is real, and the world needs clean, safe, and reliable energy sources in order...

Exploring the potential of advanced nuclear system coolants

Professor Mark Anderson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses some of the interesting experimental science questions associated with advanced nuclear system coolants and how reactors based on these technologies can help to reduce the environmental impact of power and...

Exploring the diverse applications of lithium and its future innovation potential

Donald S. Bubar, President and CEO of Avalon Advanced Materials Inc., discusses the vast applications of lithium as well as its potential for further innovation. While lithium is widely acknowledged as a critical material in battery technologies, it has many...

Meeting global EV battery demand with battery recycling innovation

As EV battery demand continues to rise, manufacturers are turning to recycling innovation to meet lithium supply shortages. For electric vehicles (EVs) to successfully become the best solution to the world’s transport pollution issues, the industry needs to develop a...

Exploration to unlock REE potential at Grønnedal-Ika

Exploration of the Grønnedal-Ika carbonatite complex could advance a new era of sustainable mining and help in meeting global rare earth demand. Grønnedal-Ika is located approximately 10km from the world’s largest historical source of natural cryolite in Greenland. This carbonatite...

Developing materials to overcome AMR in orthopaedic implants

AIMed is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (Horizon2020 MSCA-ITN) training 15 early-stage researchers to develop materials with antimicrobial properties suitable for use on the surfaces of orthopaedic implants to counter the increasing problem of post-operative infection by antibiotic-resistant...

Conducting decay spectroscopy experiments at TRIUMF

An overview of the decay spectroscopy experiments being carried out by scientists led by Professor Corina Andreoiu from the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University. Professor Corina Andreoiu works in the Nuclear Structure Group in the Department of Chemistry...

Modelling battery gassing: Measuring the effects on cell ageing and safety

Dr Carlos Ziebert, leader of the group Batteries – Calorimetry and Safety, KIT, details the Modelling of Battery Gassing project, examining how calorimetry and thermodynamic modelling help to improve our understanding of battery gassing and the effects on cell ageing...

Caesium: A rare element with huge potential in new technologies

Donald Bubar, President and CEO of Avalon Advanced Materials Inc., examines the opportunities for caesium production in Canada and potential new technology applications. Caesium (or cesium) is a scarce and little known alkali element that is usually only found in...

The contribution of high purity materials to decarbonisation

ChemX Materials Ltd on supplying high purity materials to the energy transition and the decarbonisation markets. ChemX Materials Ltd (ASX:CMX) currently has three projects that are under development regarding high purity materials and decarbonisation efforts: The HiPurA® High Purity Alumina...


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