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...A modular approach can be a lot more nimble. It can also help to deal with failure in a timely way....
...Ramping up fusion R&D should not distract from the need to improve the proven nuclear fission technology that powers existing power stations, particularly by introducing a new generation of small modular...
...Fairphone is the only significant modular player after Google quit the scene, suspending its Project Ara in 2016....
...Called Kubernetes, it is a management tool for handling the kind of modular software applications that are revolutionising IT, breaking them into smaller units called containers that can be run wherever...
...Ikea gave us cheap furniture, and the same principles of simple modular assembly are giving us cheaper solar panels, too....
...That is the aim of companies developing a concept known as small modular reactors (SMRs) — mini power stations which draw on modular manufacturing techniques to simplify and accelerate construction....
...Self-driving shuttles, adaptive traffic lights that sense pedestrians, modular housing and freight-delivering robots that travel in underground tunnels might all be part of the new development, according...
...He was alleged to have sought assistance from US experts on technologies including small modular reactors, advanced fuel assembly and nuclear reactor-related computer codes, on behalf of the China General...
...“Once you go modular, the cost of a space station falls from many hundreds of millions of dollars,” says Mr Ocko. “Panels and struts can all be snapped together in space.”...
...“We think 2025 is a realistic start date for the first small modular reactor in the west, which will be in one of these two countries.”...
...This summer construction quietly started on a demonstration pebble bed reactor project that, according to the World Nuclear Association, is the most advance modular project in the world and will eventually...
...The AP1000 from Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba, has a modular construction that features passive safety systems....
...Christoph Stürmer, analyst at Global Insight, says VW will be able to bring down costs with its modular toolkit, to be shortly introduced, where the different models will share a much higher proportion of...
...Westinghouse has proposed a modular design for the shield, involving steel plate and a concrete layer. But the HSE worries this design is still unlicensed in the US or Europe....
...Standardised designs and new modular construction techniques will facilitate the process....
...“Recent strong exits, such as Vetco, Nordic Modular and Nordnav. have completed the strong finish to 2006,” said Dresdner, increasing its target price to £11.80....
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