Chile partners with US National Science Foundation to provide opportunities for graduate research fellows
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mate goal is the widespread integration of South African PGM technologies into new and existing hydrogen and fuelcell products that are manufactured in South Africa and exported worldwide. The DST hopes that the targeted and aggressive nature of the HySA program will change the face of both the fuel-cell market and of South Africa’s economic
Chile partners with US National Science Foundation to provide opportunities for graduate research fellows www.nsf.gov/grow
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he US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new research partnership with Chile through the Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) program. This is a coordinated effort that enhances international collaborative research opportunities for NSF Graduate Research Fellows. There are now GROW agreements between NSF and science agencies in 10 countries. José Miguel Aguilera, president of Chile’s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research, says, “Chile has extraordinary Natural Labs where postgraduate fellows can conduct frontier scientific research.”
GROW was announced in December 2012, at the sixtieth anniversary celebration of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRF), NSF’s flagship program for graduate students in science and engineering within NSF’s mission. The Fellows, selected through the NSF GRF program and invited to participate in GROW, are hosted by a science agency in a partner country for a period of 3 to 12 months. While overseas, they receive a living allowance from the host country as they pursue their research in a host institution. They are also eligible to receive an international travel allowance from NSF. This partnership with Chile
Poland releases report on small modular reactors www.ncbj.gov.pl
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n March, Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) released a report on the advisability of small modular reactors (SMRs). The report says that while SMR nuclear power plants (NPPs) might become important for the Polish power industry, it is very unlikely that they will play a key role as a base load electricity source in Poland, and they are unlikely to appear before 2030. Research and development (R&D) on various SMRs—high-temperature reactors that might cogenerate electricity and heat—are conducted in many countries. The United States, Russia, Korea, France, Japan, and China are supporting works on innovative nuclear-reactor solutions with large financial outlays to make the
best use of their research collected during operation of their high-power nuclear reactors, the report says. Andrzej Strupczewski, NCBJ Nuclear Safety Chair, says, “Our government’s policy is to develop in Poland by 2030 nuclear reactors of a combined electric power of 6000 MW. A few tens of SMR reactors would be needed to attain that power level. Such a large number of SMRs would be not only economically unjustified, but also technically unfeasible. Besides, since safety is an absolute priority issue, we in Poland are going to deploy only such reactors that can demonstrate a record of successful operation in other
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