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INL’s new innovation incubator could link start-ups with an industry sponsor
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.
Scott W. White, Gerald L. Kulcinski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 358-363
Fusion Economics and Reactor Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963640
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The amount of electrical energy produced over the lifetime of the ARIES-RS and UWMAK-I DT-fusion power plants is compared to the total amount of energy required to procure the fuel, build, operate, and decommission the power plants. The energy payback ratio varies slightly for the two power plants; 23 for ARIES-RS and 26 for UWMAK-I. By knowing the magnitude of the energy investment and the source of the various energy inputs, a CO2 emission factor is calculated. This number is similar for both fusion power plants with ≈8 tonnes of CO2 per GWeh for UWMAK-I and ≈9 tonnes of CO2 per GWeh for ARIES-RS. These fusion plants are compared to other existing electrical producing power plants.
