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The Department of Energy has selected a plan for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant, just in time for the holiday season.
DOE announced Wednesday that it had selected the GE-Hitachi plan for reuse of the plant site. The plan, submitted by General Electric Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment, would use laser technology to re-enrich high-assay depleted uranium tails.
GREENVILLE, S.C., Nov. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM), a leading global supplier of electronic components, has announced two major technology breakthroughs that allow the Company to deliver solid tantalum capacitors with the industry’s best reliability and highest breakdown voltages.
This technology meets the needs of engineers designing for medical, aerospace, defense and other high-reliability applications. It includes manufacturing processes for improved dielectric quality, mechanical robustness and a patented screening technique for simulating breakdown voltage. Combined with industry-leading reliability and breakdown voltage (BDV), these technologies also ensure that KEMET’s high-grade tantalum capacitors for high reliability designs feature low and stable DC leakage currents.
Read more at: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131126-909731.html?dsk=y
Georgia Institute of Technology has done some truly bleeding-edge research inself-configuring robotics and robot swarms. It’s also home to research projects in advanced additive manufacturing (AM), design, and materials. The latest one has received a grant from the Department of Energy to develop nanoscale AM with a variety of materials.
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General Electric Co. is on the hunt for ways to build more than 85,000 fuel nozzles for its newest jet engine. Instead of assembling them from 20 different parts, it plans to create the units in one piece — with 3-D printers.
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Chinese steel giant Baosteel Group has announced that its BSSF (Baosteel slag short flow) roller slag processing technology and equipment with independent intellectual property rights will be used at the steel production facilities of Brazilian slab producer Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP), marking the successful entry of the technology into the South American market. With the aim of entering the market in question, Baosteel had upgraded and improved the equipment to reduce maintenance costs and to increase the slag treatment capacity.
Read more at: http://www.steelorbis.com/steel-news/latest-news/baosteels-slag-processing-technology-enters-south-american-market-793903.htm
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The exciting new South African gold-mining technology that has the potential to change the face of South Africa’s struggling precious metals mining business, has produced its first gold.
AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa’s biggest gold mining company, which produced this pioneering gold at its Tau Tona gold mine, intends going operational on a second site in April and a third site in July.
Read more at: http://www.miningweekly.com/article/exciting-new-anglogold-ashanti-technology-produces-first-gold-2013-11-06
Originally developed by NASA as a high-performance piston alloy to meet U.S. legislative restrictions on vehicular exhaust hydrocarbon emissions, NASA 398 aluminum alloy exhibits excellent tensile and fatigue strength at elevated temperatures. NASA 398 alloy also offers superior wear resistance, surface hardness, dimensional stability, and lower thermal expansion compared to conventional aluminum alloys. NASA 398 has been used in mass production and has enabled award-winning and innovative commercial products, and the NASA Marshall Technology Transfer Office is seeking new licensees that may also benefit from its adoption.
Read more at: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=44927
HALIFAX, NS (MINEWEB) –
Fresh from a mining conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, UBS analysts turned their imagination to how an impending ban on the export of nickel ore might unfold.
An unadultered ban in January 2014 – the official government policy that is meant to boost value-added industry in country – has major implications for the supply of nickel from Indonesia to China. UBS notes this trade accounts for 15 percent of world supply.
Read more at: http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-asia?oid=211204&sn=Detail
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s energy minister has opened a pilot plant where researchers will test whether rare-earth elements can be commercially extracted from bauxite waste on the Caribbean island.
The small plant was opened Tuesday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the capital of Kingston, some eight months after construction started. Full operations are expected to begin before the end of the month.
Jamaica is working with Nippon Light Metal Co. Ltd. of Japan, which holds a patent for a type of technology required for extracting rare-earth elements from red bauxite residue.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d8e04f5c99b24232aab6524dfb1270a8/CB–Jamaica-Rare-Earths
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