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EV Charging Pioneer Scott Mercer Takes on Fusion as CEO of Focused Energy

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

The inertial fusion energy company Focused Energy welcomes Scott Mercer as CEO, furthering its position as a leader in the burgeoning global fusion industry.

Key Points: 
  • The inertial fusion energy company Focused Energy welcomes Scott Mercer as CEO, furthering its position as a leader in the burgeoning global fusion industry.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240227836856/en/
    Scott Mercer, CEO of Focused Energy (Photo: Scott Mercer)
    "I’m thrilled and humbled to join a team that is demonstrably on the cutting edge of fusion science and achievement," Mercer stated.
  • Thomas Forner, Founder and President of Focused Energy, says, “Adding Scott Mercer to our team marks a pivotal moment for Focused Energy.
  • At Focused Energy, a blend of proven fusion science and experimental supply chain experience is building on groundbreaking achievements of the past two decades in laser-based nuclear fusion.

LIS Technologies Inc. Welcomes Expert Talent to help Propel the Rebirth of the CRISLA Laser Enrichment Technology

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Kevin Duenow will take on the role of Senior Systems Engineer and Adam Duenow joins as a Laboratory Technician.

Key Points: 
  • Kevin Duenow will take on the role of Senior Systems Engineer and Adam Duenow joins as a Laboratory Technician.
  • These appointments are important to the Company's strategic initiative to reinvigorate CRISLA technologies with a clear and defined focus.
  • In the early 90’s he worked as a Laser and Electronics Engineer on the AVLIS laser enrichment program at LLNL.
  • This proprietary laser-based technique offers greater energy-efficiency and has the potential to be deployed with highly competitive capital and operational costs.

American Rare Earths Announces Breakthrough Metallurgical Results  

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Monday, January 22, 2024

DENVER, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  American Rare Earths (ASX: ARR | ADRs - OTCQX: AMRRY | Common Shares - OTCQB: ARRNF) (“ARR” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce breakthrough metallurgical results as part of the SynBREE project, a consortium led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as part of a program funded by the Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource (EMBER) program within Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”), a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agency.

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  • Preconcentrating reduces Wet High Intensity Magnetic Separator (“WHIMS”) needs by 70% from existing design, significantly reducing capital and operating expenditures.
  • The project has been selected to advance to the next phase of study and the company is engaged in discussions around funding and next steps.
  • DENVER, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Rare Earths (ASX: ARR | ADRs - OTCQX: AMRRY | Common Shares - OTCQB: ARRNF) (“ARR” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce breakthrough metallurgical results as part of the SynBREE project, a consortium led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as part of a program funded by the Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource (EMBER) program within Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”), a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agency .
  • Removal of the gangue materials at the solid state enhances the concentration of the rare earth elements, creating an optimal solution feed for downstream bio-separation.

General Atomics Brings Inertial Fusion Energy Expertise to Two National Research Hubs

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Friday, December 8, 2023

San Diego, CA, Dec. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Atomics (GA) has been selected as a team member for two science and technology hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research ( IFE-STAR ) program to advance IFE science and technologies.

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  • San Diego, CA, Dec. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Atomics (GA) has been selected as a team member for two science and technology hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research ( IFE-STAR ) program to advance IFE science and technologies.
  • The STARFIRE and RISE hubs will each receive $16 million each over the next four years.
  • IFE is currently the only fusion approach to have achieved net energy gain in a laboratory, after achieving a 1.5x energy gain at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) in December 2022.
  • Other collaborators working on the RISE hub include CSU, Stanford & SLAC National Accelerator Lab, University of Illinois, Cornell University, Texas A&M, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Naval Research Lab (NRL), Marvel Fusion (MF), and Xcimer Energy.

Focused Energy Partners with LLNL on a Target Design for Inertial Fusion Energy

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Focused Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed a Strategic Partnership Project Agreement for LLNL to assist the American-German fusion company with developing and assessing the performance of isochoric compression target designs for inertial fusion energy.

Key Points: 
  • Focused Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed a Strategic Partnership Project Agreement for LLNL to assist the American-German fusion company with developing and assessing the performance of isochoric compression target designs for inertial fusion energy.
  • At LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), inertial fusion ignition and target gain > 1 were achieved in December 2022 - a historic breakthrough for the future production of clean energy.
  • Under this contract, LLNL will use its codes and tools to help Focused Energy study and optimize target designs for achieving high compression in ischoric fuel assemblies required for fast ignition inertial confinement fusion.
  • “We are very pleased to have another renowned partner on board with LLNL to optimise the target design together”, said Thomas Forner, CEO and co-founder of Focused Energy.

2CRSi SA: 2CRSi signs a contract with Lawrence Livermore National Lab

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Monday, October 2, 2023

Strasbourg (France), October 2, 2023 - 2CRSi, designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient computer servers, announces the signing of an order with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to equip immersion servers.

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  • Strasbourg (France), October 2, 2023 - 2CRSi, designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient computer servers, announces the signing of an order with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to equip immersion servers.
  • For more than 70 years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), whose mission is to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, has leveraged science and technology to achieve breakthroughs in national security, climate resilience, counterterrorism, defense, intelligence, and energy security.
  • Now, equipped with servers using direct liquid cooling solutions, LLNL has chosen 2CRSi to test immersion cooling technology.
  • At the end of this test phase, the collaboration between 2CRSi and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could be extended with additional orders over several years.

Dr. Pravesh Patel becomes Chief Technology Officer of Focused Energy

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Friday, September 15, 2023

Focused Energy, a laser-based fusion startup, is proud to announce Dr. Pravesh Patel as its new CTO.

Key Points: 
  • Focused Energy, a laser-based fusion startup, is proud to announce Dr. Pravesh Patel as its new CTO.
  • In his new role, Dr. Patel will lead the company’s science and technology strategic planning and execution, developing the path to the commercialization of fusion energy.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230915591321/en/
    Dr. Pravesh Patel becomes Chief Technology Officer of Focused Energy (Photo: Business Wire)
    Patel joined the company as Scientific Director in early 2022.
  • “As CTO, Dr. Patel will play a critical role in developing our technology path, bringing us closer to functional commercial fusion plants,” said Thomas Forner, co-founder and CEO of Focused Energy.

ShorePoint’s Ryan McCullough and Michael Morton to Present Educational Session at DOE NLIT Summit 2023

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

ShorePoint is also staffing Booth #219 at the event, to facilitate conversations about cybersecurity, Zero Trust Architecture frameworks and enterprise IT modernization.

Key Points: 
  • ShorePoint is also staffing Booth #219 at the event, to facilitate conversations about cybersecurity, Zero Trust Architecture frameworks and enterprise IT modernization.
  • “The DOE National Laboratories are solving some of the world’s most complex challenges,” said Matt Brown , co-founder and chief executive officer of ShorePoint.
  • “We’re excited for NLIT Summit 2023, where we’ll exchange some of the cybersecurity best practices that are helping to ensure continued success of the DOE National Laboratories’ vital work.”
    McCullough and Morton will co-present a session with speakers from the National Nuclear Security Administration and Sandia National Laboratories.
  • For highlights of the session , visit McCullough, Morton and other ShorePoint representatives at booth #219.

SambaNova and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Scale Up Collaboration to Accelerate AI for Science

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Monday, May 22, 2023

ISC23 — SambaNova Systems , the company that was first to market with domain-specific, pre-trained foundation models to underpin generative AI, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), today announce that they’re scaling up their collaboration to bring SambaNova spatial data flow accelerator into LLNL’s Computing Center.

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  • ISC23 — SambaNova Systems , the company that was first to market with domain-specific, pre-trained foundation models to underpin generative AI, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), today announce that they’re scaling up their collaboration to bring SambaNova spatial data flow accelerator into LLNL’s Computing Center.
  • photo credit: Gary McLeod, LLNL
    LLNL is a leading federal research institution that leverages high performance computing (HPC) across its research.
  • Increasingly, the institution has studied how deep neural network hardware architectures can accelerate traditional physics-based simulations as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Advanced Simulation and Computing program.
  • The first stage of the collaboration involved tight integration of SambaNova DataScale hardware input directly into the Corona supercomputing cluster.

A-Alpha Bio and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory expand collaboration to accelerate antibody discovery and development for biothreats

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

SEATTLE, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A-Alpha Bio, a synthetic biology and machine learning company that measures and engineers protein-protein interactions, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a federally funded research and development center, today announced their intention to collaborate to combat multiple pathogen families of concern. To enable this work, A-Alpha Bio has been awarded an additional $2.4M sub-contract from the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) in support of the Generative Unconstrained Intelligent Drug Engineering (GUIDE) Program, which the company will use to generate large-scale and quantitative protein-protein interaction (PPI) data and support LLNL's advanced high-performance computational models for antibody discovery and development.

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  • The experimental data has proven valuable for building and refining LLNL's computational models for predicting antibody sequences that bind to current and possible future variants of concern.
  • Beyond the pandemic, there is a well-recognized need to ensure preparation for other potential biological threats.
  • These data are particularly valuable for training and validating ML models aimed at predicting desirable antibody sequences for therapeutic development.
  • "Our collaboration with the A-Alpha Bio team leverages their platform and expertise toward state-of-the-art computational models that will accelerate drug discovery."