Automation improves tissue engineering

Artificial skin is being produced automatically in a lab in Germany, with the production enabled by tissue engineering. Previously, production was only possible only using expensive manual methods in specialized laboratories. Artificial skin for use in transplants or to verify the safety of the active ingredients of drugs, cosmetics and chemicals is a rare commodity. …

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Lead Battery Capacitor Hybrid could enable widespread microhybrid cars for 4-10% efficiency boost

CNET – Axion Power International has a developed an advanced lead-acid battery it hopes will attract automakers and grid storage providers. The basic chemistry and components are the same, but the company has an activated carbon negative electrode, a change that leads to better performance over time. The company is targeting start-stop hybrids in particular. …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 80

1. Idaho Samizdat – Concrete cracks up costs of restart at two reactors. Progress Crystal River and First Energy Davis-Besse have very different problems, but similar concerns about restart. Progress is looking at several years of work while Davis-Besse told its investors in a letter it expects to restart the reactor by the end of …

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Color e-readers from Hanvon and Barnes and Noble

China Hanvon Technology is the world’s second-largest e-reader manufacturer and the world’s leading technology supplier of handwriting recognition, optical character recognition and biometrics identification. NY Times reports Hanvon’s first color e-ink product will using a 9.68-inch color touch screen will be available this March in China, starting at about $440. The price is less than …

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Idaho National Lab Achieves 19% Burn for Nuclear Pebbles

The fuel pellets contain a kernel of enriched uranium surrounded by carbon and carbide layers that act as a containment boundry for the radioactive material. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have set a new world record of 19% burn with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). INL researchers say the …

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