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Idaho National Laboratory is looking for a sponsor to invest $5 million–$10 million in a privately funded innovation incubator to support seed-stage start-ups working in nuclear energy, integrated energy systems, cybersecurity, or advanced materials. For their investment, the sponsor gets access to what INL calls “a turnkey source of cutting-edge American innovation.” Not only are technologies supported by the program “substantially de-risked” by going through technical review and development at a national laboratory, but the arrangement “adds credibility, goodwill, and visibility to the private sector sponsor’s investments,” according to INL.
Fermín Cuevas, José Francisco Fernandáz, Carlos Sánchez*
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 32 | Number 4 | December 1997 | Pages 644-654
Technical Paper | Special Section: Plasma Control Issues for Tokamaks / Nuclear Reactions in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A19909
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The possible occurrence of nuclear reactions in solids (NRS) is tested in a well-characterized iodide-titanium film after a high deuterium loading. This film proves to have a higher purity than common titanium samples used in NRS experiments. The titanium deuteration is accomplished in the same chamber where the film is grown to avoid any superficial contamination of the sample. A complete set of NRS experiments is performed, checking as triggering mechanisms of the NRS phenomena the imposition of different electric fields and the crossing of the δ-ϵ and β-δ boundary phases of the Ti-D system. Neutron measurements are monitored while doing these experiments, and no clear evidence of the nuclear fusion reaction D + D → 3He + n is detected; the detection limit for this reaction is Λ = 3 × 10−21 fusions per pair of deuterons per second. However, some anomalous neutron signals are monitored by one of the detectors, which makes further investigation desirable.