June 2007
US$11 Million
Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for High-Temperature Superconductor
Fault Current Limiters (`FCL')
London, UK, 29 June 2007: Zenergy
Power plc (AIM:ZEN.L), the
specialist manufacturer and developer of commercial applications for
high-temperature superconductive (`HTS') materials,is pleased to announce that
the U.S. Department of Energy has notified the Group's wholly owned subsidiary,
SC Power Systems, Inc. (`SC Power'), San Mateo, California that it has been
awarded an US$11million grant to design, test and install a high-voltage Fault
Current Limiter (`FCL') in the Californian electricity grid.
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AMSC Wins Two New
Department of Energy Superconductor Power Grid Projects
Westborough, MA, 28 June 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy
technologies company, today announced that the United States Department of
Energy is providing up to $21.7 million in funding for the following two new
AMSC high temperature superconductor (HTS) projects.
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DOE Provides up to $51.8
Million to Modernize the U.S. Electric Grid System: Superconductor Research
Crucial to Improving Power Delivery Equipment
Washington, DC, 28 June 2007: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary
Samuel W. Bodman today announced that DOE will provide up to $51.8 million for
five cost-shared projects that will help accelerate much-needed modernization of
our Nation's electricity grid. This research will advance the development and
application of high-temperature superconductors, which have the potential to
alleviate congestion on an electricity grid that is experiencing increased
demand from consumers.
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Back-to-Back b
Baryons in Batavia
Batavia, IL, 25 June 2007: Scientists at the Department of
Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory have announced the observation of the cascade b
baryon—again.
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Successful
Qualification of HTS Coils for Wind Power Generators
London, UK, 25 June 2007: Zenergy
Power plc (AIM:ZEN.L), the
specialist manufacturer and developer of commercial applications for
high-temperature superconductive (`HTS') materials, is pleased to announce its
HTS electromagnetic coils have passed through extensive testing and technical
evaluation and have been qualified for use in commercial wind power generators.
The tests were conducted by the Group's collaborative partner, Converteam Group
SAS ('Converteam'), who has reported electrical performance, electrical capacity
and electrical efficiency levels exceeding management expectations.
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Superconductive Components, Inc. Reschedules 2007 Annual Meeting
Columbus, OH, 25 June 2007:
Superconductive Components, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SCCI), dba SCI Engineered
Materials, a manufacturer of high quality sputtering targets for select markets
in the physical vapor deposition industry, today announced that its Board of
Directors has rescheduled the 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders for August 22,
2007.
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CERN
announces new start-up schedule for world’s most powerful particle accelerator
Geneva, Switzerland, 22 June 2007: Speaking at the 142nd session of
the CERN[1] Council today, the Organization’s
Director General Robert Aymar announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
will start up in May 2008, taking the first steps towards studying physics at a
new high-energy frontier. A low-energy run originally scheduled for this year
has been dropped as the result of a number of minor delays accumulated over the
final months of LHC installation and commissioning, coupled with the failure in
March of a pressure test in one of the machine’s components.
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Alstom Magnets and
Superconductors and Oxford Superconducting Technology announce EU Alliance
Carteret, NJ, 22 June 2007:
Alstom Magnets and Superconductors of Belfort, France (a wholly owned
subsidiary of Alstom) and
Oxford Superconducting Technology of Carteret, NJ, USA (a wholly owned
subsidiary of Oxford Instruments, plc) are pleased to announce the creation of
an alliance focused on winning supply contracts in the European Union for
niobium-tin superconducting strand for ITER, a joint international research and
development project that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical
feasibility of fusion power.
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UNM Hosts
International Conference on Pulsed Power and Plasma Science
Albuquerque, NM, 22 June 2007: Engineers and scientists from 40
countries have been in Albuquerque this week to share their latest research
related to pulsed power and plasma science at the
2007 International Pulsed Power and
Plasma Science Conference. Their work is enabling stockpile stewardship
without nuclear testing, and it also promises to bring a new, cleaner source of
electricity by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion.
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Researchers develop code to
ensure plasma stability of ITER reactor
Brussels, Belgium, 21 June 2007: Researchers at the Max Planck
Institute of Plasma Physics have developed
a special code to calculate kinks in the test reactor of the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
project. This should ensure the stability of the reactor.
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| Varian Medical
Systems Names C. Clifton Ling as Director of Advanced Clinical Research
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Palo Alto, CA, 21 June 2007:
Varian Medical Systems
today announced that it will appoint C. Clifton Ling, Ph.D, to the
position of director of advanced clinical research for Oncology Systems.
Ling, a world renowned medical physicist who has been serving as chairman
and attending physicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New
York, will play a key role in guiding the development of Varian's clinical
products for radiotherapy and radiosurgery.
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Eric B. Forsyth,
Superconductor Expert, To Receive IEEE Technology Award
Piscataway, NJ, 20 June 2007: The
IEEE (Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) has named Eric B. Forsyth as the recipient
of its 2007 Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award,
recognizing his expertise in the practical application of superconductors to
power transmission technology, which resulted in more efficient distribution
of electricity. The IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for
the advancement of technology.
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AMSC Announces Filing of
Registration Statement for Public Offering
Westborough, MA, 20 June 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy
technologies company, announced today that it has filed a registration
statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public
offering of 4,700,000 shares of its common stock. Morgan Stanley will act as
bookrunner for the offering. Co-managers of the offering will be Jefferies &
Company, Inc. and Needham & Company, LLC. The offering will include an
option for the underwriters to purchase up to an additional 705,000 shares
to cover over-allotments, if any.
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Superconductive Components,
Inc. Postpones 2007 Annual Meeting
Columbus, OH, 18 June 2007:
Superconductive Components,
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SCCI),
dba SCI Engineered Materials, a manufacturer of high quality sputtering targets
for select markets in the physical vapor deposition industry, today announced
that it’s 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for June 25, 2007, has
been postponed.
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AMSC Names New Chief
Financial Officer
Westborough, MA, 14 June 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy
technologies company, today announced the selection of David A. Henry for the
position of Chief Financial Officer, effective July 9, 2007. Henry will replace
Thomas M. Rosa, who has notified the company that he will be resigning to pursue
other business opportunities. Mr. Rosa will remain with AMSC as a consultant for
an interim period after July 9 to assist with the transition process.
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Two qubits in action, new
step towards the quantum computer
Delft, Netherlans, 14 June 2007: Researchers at TU
Delft have succeeded in carrying out
calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future
quantum computer. The Delft researchers are publishing an article about this
important step towards a workable quantum computer in this week’s issue of
Nature.
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Fermilab physicists
discover "triple-scoop" baryon
Batavia, IL, 13 June 2007: Physicists of the
DZero experiment at the Department of
Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new heavy
particle. The newly discovered electrically charged Ξb baryon, also known
as the "cascade b," is made of a down, a strange and a bottom quark. Its
discovery and the measurement of its mass provide new understanding of how the
strong nuclear force acts upon the quarks, the basic building blocks of matter.
The cascade b is produced in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions at
Fermilab's superconducting
Tevatron.
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Oxford
Instruments plc Announces preliminary results for the year to 31 March 2007
London, UK, 13 June
2007: Oxford Instruments
plc, a leading provider of high technology tools and systems for industry and
research, today announced its preliminary results for the year to 31 March 2007.
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Innovative Energy-Saving Cryogenics Earns
Jefferson Lab Team a 2007 White House Award
Newport News, VA, 12 June 2007: A
series of innovative
energy-saving
processes invented by engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
today were celebrated with a prestigious White House Closing the Circle Award
during ceremonies in Washington, D.C.
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AMSC Receives D-VAR(R)
Orders for Two New U.S. Wind Farms
Westborough, MA, 12 June 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has
received two additional orders for its D-VAR(R) voltage regulation solution for
use in wind farms being constructed in the United States. Each of these orders
is worth over $1 million.
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Science and Technology
FacilitiesCouncil announces Science Board members
London, 11 June 2007: The Science and Technology Facilities Council
(STFC) have announced the 8
appointments to its Science Board which will be responsible for providing advice
to Council and the executive on all aspects of STFC’s science and technology
programme.
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Launch of the
XFEL project: Construction of the European X-ray laser facility XFEL starts in
early 2008
Hamburg, Germany, 5 June 2007: Today, on June 5, 2007, the German Federal
Minister of Education and Research Dr. Annette Schavan officially launched the
European X-ray laser facility XFEL.
“The funding negotiations with the 12 interested countries are so far advanced
that the construction of this new research facility, which is very much sought
after by the international scientific community, can now begin,” said Schavan in
front of representatives of the press and the guests of the launching ceremony.
“We can now assume that the commissioning of the first six of ten possible
experimental stations will begin in 2013. And we aim to upgrade this initial
version as soon as possible to the complete ten-station facility.”
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Long-distance record -- 'Quantum keys' sent 200 kilometers
Palo Alto, CA, 1 June 2007: Particles
of light serving as “quantum keys”—the latest in encryption technology—have been
sent over a record-setting 200-kilometer fiber-optic link by researchers from
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
NTT Corp. in Japan, and Stanford University. The experiment, using mostly
standard components and transmitting at telecommunications frequencies, offers
an approach for making practical inter-city terrestrial quantum communications
networks as well as long-range wireless systems using communication satellites.
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Discovery of the First
Superconductivity in the Transuranic Neptunium Compound
Sendai, Japan, 1 June 2007:
Prof.
Shiokawa’s group (Radiochemistry of Metals), at
the
International Research Center for Nuclear Materials Science,
grew a novel compound of NpPd5Al2 single crystal and discovered the world’s
first superconductivity of the neptunium compound.
The superconducting transition temperature is 5 K,
which is relatively high among the heavy fermion
superconductors.
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Fermilab Update
on Inner Triplet Magnets at LHC: Magnet Repairs Underway at CERN
Geneva, Switzerland, 1 June 2007: Scientists, engineers and
technicians from CERN, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
Japan’s KEK laboratory have begun repairs to the “triplet” components of the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that
failed a pressure test in the LHC tunnel in March.
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