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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.
Valentin V. Danilov, Vladimir V. Mirnov, Defne Üçer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 312-314
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963874
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New applications of space tethers (High-Voltage Tethered Satellite System project) are discussed in relation with idea1 of an active experiment in the Earth's radiation belts. Two conducting strings are supposed to be tethered between the main satellite and two small subsatellites flying through the ERB. A large potential difference ∼1MV is applied between the tethers by means of a generator carried on the main satellite. The tethers effectively scatter the high energy particles into loss cone of magnetic trap, providing a control of particle life time in ERB. The rigorous theory of the sheath layer formed by relatively cold plasma is developed, yielding the electric field profile, which is then used for the treatment of scattering problem. With the help of Fokker-Planck equation the average rate of particle losses, normalized per 1 km of the tether's length is found to be: (2.5 ÷ 14) · 1016 s−1 km−1 for electron belts and 1.8·1014÷2.5·1020 s−1 km−1 for proton belts. New active experiments in space become possible under the joint realization of HVTSS and HAARP projects.
