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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.
K.V. Lotov, A.A. Ivanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 353-357
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963883
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The fast ions produced inside a mirror trap by neutral beam injection could form periodic short-lived density peaks near a turning point if the injection energy is properly modulated in time. Achievable parameters of thus formed fast ion bunches are analyzed in this paper. The theory is illustrated by estimates for the neutron source based on a gas-dynamic trap. The bunching of deuterium and tritium ions can produce periodic short bursts of neutron radiation with the intensity 1.5 times higher than the average level. The modulation of the neutron flux could extend the field of application for the neutron source. Also, the bunching could serve as a precise plasma diagnostics in mirror traps.
