Monthly Archives: August 2012

Powdermet to Supply Battery Materials to the US Navy Powdermet has entered into a contract with the United States Navy to investigate safer, higher-rate, higher-energy-density thermal batteries through the development of improved nanocomposite anode materials. Specifically, nanocomposite lithium-silicon is to be developed to replace traditional lithium as the anode material. This new anode material

Powdermet’s CVD Technology to Produce Low-energy Uranium Battelle Energy Alliance LLC subcontracted Powdermet to investigate designing and building a fluidized chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor to produce low-energy uranium for the Reduced Enrichment Research and Test Reactor Program (RERTR). The program’s purpose was to eliminate the need for highly-enriched uranium fuel to prevent its use