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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.
S.V. Golubev, S.V. Razin, A.V. Vodopyanov, V.G. Zorin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 288-291
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963869
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Essential increase of operation efficiency of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) multi-charged ion (MCI) sources (that is the increase of the average charge number and current of ion beams) is connected with possibility to achieve more dense plasma and to achieve so called quasi-gasdynamic regime of the plasma confinement in mirror traps using RF radiation with higher frequency. Results of experimental investigation of ion charge state distribution in a pulsed ECR source of MCI with pumping by millimeter wave radiation of powerful gyrotron are presented in the paper. Millimeter wave radiation with maximum power W=130 kW, frequency f=37.5 GHz and pulse duration up to 1.5 ms is used in the experiments. The charge state distribution maximum corresponded to argon charge (+13)-(+15). Total ion saturation current density of the probe achieved 2 A/cm2.
