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It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 874-878
Fuel Cycle and Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963047
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Bonding nature of hydrogen isotopes on the surface of Li2O has been studied with the CRYSTAL92, ab-initio Hartree-Fock calculation code for periodic systems. It was found that the exothermic dissociative adsorption of H2O molecule could occur on the relaxed surface. The adsorption energy for the most stable site was 0.438eV per one H2O. The nature of -OH on the surface of Li2O was also analyzed. Calculation results showed that the stretching vibration of O–H is affected by the chemical species around the -OH.