Investors had been further spooked by an explosive bubble in the uranium market, the metal used to fuel nuclear reactors.

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The little bit of this that interests me is that those fuel cells use my favourite metal, scandium, as an integral part of their operation.

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It involves taking oxygen to the fuel not as a gas, but bound to a metal such as iron or calcium, and should in principle make combustion more efficient.

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However, the textiles, fur and leather sector fell by 8.3%, and there was contraction in engineering and allied industries (-0.8%), chemicals, coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel (-3.2%) and metals and metal products (-0.4%).

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Part of the Dreamliner's appeal to airlines is its increased fuel efficiency due to its construction of lightweight composite materials instead of metal.

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Even the spent fuel that has accumulated over 30 years of use is so radioactive it is hot enough to burn metal containers unless actively cooled 100% of the time.

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In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.

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