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Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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Fast Reactor Technology Is an American Clean, Green and Secure Energy Option

Nuclear reactors produce about 20% of the total electricity used in the U.S. Of the country’s clean electricity, nuclear energy accounts for close to 50%. Exciting new research into advanced nuclear technologies is driving interest in nuclear energy as a central pillar of U.S. efforts to combat climate change and meet rising demand for electricity.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Fast Reactor Program, led by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, is driving the advances. This is thanks to cutting-edge research at Argonne and other national laboratories, but also a result of historical and current collaboration with companies in the nuclear industry. Together, science and industry are providing pivotal developments in fast reactor technology.

Historically, nuclear reactors in the U.S. use Light Water Reactor (LWRs) technology, but fast reactor technology uses liquid sodium, lead or other coolants in place of water to remove the heat produced by fission. (That heat is what nuclear reactors use to create the steam that turns turbines to generate electricity.) Fast reactor technology can reuse nuclear fuel which means fast reactors can produce more fuel than they consume. Ultimately, this produces less waste. They can enable converting unused uranium (of which there is a surprising amount left in used LWR fuels) into new fuel.

“Fast reactors offer up to 60 times the fuel efficiency of light water reactors and are designed with automatic features that safely shut the reactor down in case of accident conditions,” said Kaatrin Abbott, manager of DOE-NE’s Fast Reactor Program.

Fast reactors can also make new use of used fuel that older reactor technologies discarded and have been storing securely since the 1940s.

Scientists and members of industry need to prove that this next generation of nuclear reactors merits robust federal and non-federal support. One way they do that is by preserving, developing and validating fast reactor experimental data and software to support the licensing and deployment of new commercial fast reactors.

Argonne’s Bo Feng, national technical director of the Fast Reactor Program, says every R&D activity of the Fast Reactor program fits within three areas intended to support commercialization: methods, modeling and validation; technology development; and advanced materials. These technical areas are essential to support commercial licensing, reduce capital costs or both.

Without this collaboration between the labs and private industry, new insights would be impossible.

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Christopher J. Kramer

Head of Media Relations

Argonne National Laboratory

Office: 630.252.5580

Email: media@anl.gov

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