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05 november 2012
The installation of the new Titan supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) marks the start of a new era of scientific supercomputing, including in nuclear energy research.Titan employs a family of processors called graphic processing units (GPUs) — first created for computer gaming — which enables it to ...
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23 october 2012
Areva has appealed against Czech utility CEZ’s decision to dismiss its bid from the tender process for the construction of two new units at the Temelin nuclear power plant.On 5 October, CEZ told Areva that its bid for the contract for Temelin units 3 and 4 had been disqualified as it “failed to meet statutory requirements” under the Czech ...
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