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...The federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which uses a process called inertial confinement fusion that involves bombarding a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world’s biggest...
...Although there are other inertial confinement projects — for example First Light, a UK company that fires projectiles at the fuel pellet — most fusion labs favour the alternative “magnetic confinement” approach...
...The company’s IPO comes just days after rival Traeger, a maker of wood pellet grills, listed its shares publicly....
...Ferrexpo is the world’s third-biggest supplier of pellets, small balls of iron ore that feed directly into blast furnaces....
...It has converted parts of its colossal coal power plant in North Yorkshire to burn wood pellets, with the help of more than £450m in green energy subsidies in 2015 alone....
...Focusing 192 powerful laser beams on a tiny pellet of nuclear fuel, NIF scientists have for the first time managed to release more fusion energy than was required to trigger the reaction....
...In July, the group purchased a minority stake in Traeger Pellet Grills, a Wilsonville, Oregon-based maker of wood pellet grills, sauces and spices....
...A special committee of the Winn-Dixie board negotiated the acquisition by Bi-Lo and recommended it to the full board, which approved it and is recommending it to Winn-Dixie shareholders....
...Uranium pellet processing conducted at Ulba is just one, relatively simple, link in nuclear fuel assembly. And Ulba’s pellets are only suitable for fuelling Soviet-designed reactors....
...And Ken Shubin Stein of Spencer Capital was kind enough to tell everyone at a recent conference what he likes about Winn Dixie; $1bn market cap, $450m in cash and net working capital, and $600m in other...
...Kazatomprom operates a huge, Soviet-built nuclear fuel pellet plant in north Kazakhstan, but wants to develop more advanced nuclear fuel assembly technology to add value to its uranium business....
...US consumers have a history of banding together to put pressure on entertainers from Janet Jackson to the Dixie Chicks for actions they see as immoral or improper....
...However, Georgia-Pacific has said it planned to retain its US consumer products unit, which includes Dixie disposable paper cups, and is now freshly committed to the European business....
...Winn Dixie, a smaller regional supermarket chain, cited pressure from Wal-Mart’s supercenters as one of the factors that led it to seek bankruptcy protection in February....
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