When weapons designers have an idea to boost the yield from a small amount of plutonium, or come up with a faster way to fuse atoms in a hydrogen bomb, they build a prototype for testing.
While they have moved from concept to prototype to beta testing in the past year, their initial experience was trial by fire.
The prototype build and testing is scheduled to be completed near the end of 2012, with permitting to begin with the NRC in 2013.
Samsung has been testing a prototype Experience boutique in a suburban Dallas Best Buy store.
By 2003, Statkraft was testing a prototype so small that one version still sits on Skilhagen's desk.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the chain is testing a prototype store near its Minnesota-based headquarters that mimics signature Apple features such as its Genius Bar.
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Japan's Meteorological Agency is currently testing a prototype system which detects the oh-so-subtle "P Waves" that precede the destructive "S Waves, " and alerts major operations to halt their hustle and take cover.
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The Sunshine to Petrol project is testing a prototype device called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (called CR5 for short) which turns CO2 into carbon monoxide which could then form part of a liquid fuel.
For the second time in seven months, a prototype device has failed testing at the hands of the FCC, although this time it wasn't because it was interfering with TV signals -- it just wouldn't stay powered on.
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The prototype, which needs wider testing, is described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
If the system passes all the operational testing, the prototype will be demonstrated to the USAF Security Forces and the design will be transitioned for operational use.
The chain, which had scotched its signature blue A-frame design in favor of big boxes that can seat more customers, is testing a new prototype that uses the A-frame as a restaurant's entranceway.
For Evans and Burnett, their Designing Your Life course is only two years old, but their aggressiveness in testing and refining the prototype makes it feel several years more established, Evans tells me.
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In that time, we've seen these security readers built into prototype laptops, and various corporations have begun testing it out in pilot programs.
The advantages of testing cars virtually, rather than building a prototype or a mule car, are numerous.
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