- GE’s solution will use novel sensors and imaging techniques with an AI-driven Digital Twin of the fuel reprocessing facility utilizing Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technology to enable real-time tracking of used fuel materials inside the facility with added safeguards and data securitization.
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A 3X Ambition for GE at Climate Week NYC
With New York’s reputation for accelerating action to tackle the tallest challenges, it came as little surprise that this year’s Climate Week NYC summit was the most bustling in many years. Coming on the heels of unprecedented energy security threats and climate impacts, and looking ahead to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, taking place in Dubai Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, the sense of urgency and action was present everywhere from hotels to the streets.
Earth Day
A World of Good: Six GE Innovations That Are About to Change Everything
Building a world that works: This is the motivating principle behind the work that’s done at GE all across the planet. As we celebrate Earth Day, GE Reports shines a spotlight on a half dozen of its most impactful breakthrough technologies that are helping to usher in a more sustainable future — and some of the dynamic people leading these efforts every day.
Nuclear Energy
Energize This: Canada Could Become A Global Hub For New Nuclear Technology
Canada, like many industrialized countries, has pledged to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. But what makes Canada unique is how it wants to achieve that goal. Like others, it has been boosting renewables like wind and solar. But it also plans to add to the mix a powerful new source: small modular reactors, or SMRs.
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Change Agent: Jhansi Kandasamy Is Helping Women Succeed In Nuclear Energy
When Jhansi Kandasamy was growing up in Pennsylvania, the 500-foot-tall cooling towers from the nearby Limerick Generating Station, an 1,100-megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant outside Philadelphia, served as the backdrop for her family’s dinner conversations. Her father was a mechanical engineer who designed HVAC systems for nuclear facilities, and he had brought his family to the United States from India for education and opportunity.
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Sink and Swim: Stinger The Swimming Robot Keeps Nuclear Reactors Healthy
Nothing says summertime in Georgia like a dip in the old swimming hole. But near the town of Baxley, there’s one pool that’s not open to the public: the crystal-clear blue waters of the containment vessel bathing the Edwin Irby Hatch Power Plant’s nuclear reactor.