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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 37 | Number 2 | March 2000 | Pages 344-351
Plasma Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A11963229
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The invention of the first laser and many others after that has led to a large amount of different plasma diagnostics using some aspect of the interaction between light and plasmas. In this paper a short review of these diagnostics is given, where the emphasis will be on Thomson scattering and Laser Induced Fluorescence. Thomson scattering is a very powerful diagnostic which is applied at nearly every magnetic confinement device. When the laser wavelength is much smaller than the plasma Debye length, the scattering spectrum is a reflection of the electron velocity distribution, from which local values for the electron temperature and density can be derived. Laser Induced Fluorescence enables to determine the neutral density of different species in the plasma.
