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Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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.
Manfred Roedig, Reiner Duwe, Jochen Linke, Guenther Pott, Bernhard Wiechers
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 464-468
Plasma Facing Components Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963656
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In order to study degradation effects of neutrons on plasma-facing materials and joints, actively-cooled beryllium and CFC samples were irradiated in the High Flux Reactor in Petten up to 0.35 dpa at 350 and 700°C. Later, these samples were tested by means of an electron beam facility under static and cyclic heating conditions. The heat removal efficiency and the thermal fatigue behavior of these samples were compared to those of corresponding non-irradiated samples. A significant increase of surface temperature was observed for all samples, due to a reduced thermal conductivity of the CFC materials after neutron irradiation. This effect is less distinctive for samples irradiated at the higher temperature. Long term fatigue tests with 1000 heating cycles at 15 MW/m2 did not create any failure of the plasma-facing material or the bond layer of the tested mock-ups. Similar experiments have been performed with brazed beryllium-copper mock-ups. Flat tile mock-ups with an S65 C armor on a CuCrZr heat sink were loaded up to 1000 cycles at a power density of 7 MW/m2 without detachment of tiles.