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• s  (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases

• Supercritical and now ultra-supercritical boilers have an additional advantage: they can be retrofitted into older, dirtier plants.
• Building a supercritical, 1,000-MW coal-fired plant with ccs technology from the ground up could cost around $2 billion about 30% more than the price of a standard plant.
• The superiority of the supercritical design has been known for years.

News & Articles

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• Hollysys Automation Technologies Announces A Significant Contract Win Of Its Proprietary ProfiBus Distributed Control ...
  Hollysys Automation Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: HOLI)) ("Hollysys" or the "Company"), a leading provider of automation and control technologies and applications in China, announced today that it signed a contract to provide its proprietary Distributed Control System ("DCS") combined process fieldbus communication technology ("ProfiBus") for 2×1GW ultra-supercritical thermal power generating ...
  July 11, 2013 - ElectricNet

Quotes

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• Doug Cutting in New York Times
  The thinking was if we had a big team of guys, we could really make this rock,Mr. Cutting said. "Within six months, Hadoop was a critical part of Yahoo and within a year or two it became supercritical."
• Shaw in Business Wire (press release)
  JM Bernhard, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Shaw, said, "We are excited to continue support Duke's clean energy expansion strategy with this significant EPC contract. The supercritical pulverized clean coal technology is...
• Bruce Watson in MSNBC
  Zircons are extremely durable physically,Watson explained. "They can get bounced around in stream beds without getting ground to dust. More importantly, however, they are amazingly resistant to chemical attack - acids, supercritical water,...