Topping the headlines again, Arizona State University Associate Professor Natalie Diaz has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection “Postcolonial Love Poem,” which has been described as “an anthem of desire against erasure.” The honor comes mere months after the MacArthur Fellow made history by becoming the youngest chancellor ever elected to the
Norfolk, Virginia, June 11, 2021 Old Dominion University alumna Natalie Diaz was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for “Postcolonial Love Poem,” her collection of what has.
Power companies run by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have announced plans to launch a small advanced reactor in Wyoming.
The Natrium nuclear reactor project will use the site of a retiring coal plant.
Gates company TerraPower and power company PacifiCorp, owned by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, have said that the exact location of the demonstration plant will be announced by the end of the year.
The technology features a 345Mw sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt-based energy storage system. The storage technology can boost the system’s output to 500Mw of power for more than five and a half hours when needed, which is equivalent to the energy required to power around 400,000 homes.