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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
B. S. Kang, H. S. Cho, S. Y. Lee, S. I. Choi, J. E. Oh, H. M. Cho
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 162 | Number 2 | June 2009 | Pages 200-207
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE162-200
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We developed an automated digital gamma-imaging system for nondestructive testing of welded structures in steel pipes. The imaging system consists of a 750-m-thick CdTe (cadmium telluride) photoconductor coupled to a commercially available complementary metal-oxide semiconductor readout array having a 100 m × 100 m pixel size and a 5.4 mm × 151.0 mm active area, a collimated 75Se (selenium) gamma source having an activity of ~78.7 Ci and a physical dimension of 3.0 mm in diameter and 3.0 mm in height, and a beam limiter 1.0 mm in width and 2.6 mm in height to restrict field size. All the components were assembled with a track-typed trailer mounted around a steel pipe and moved by using a microstepping motor at a fixed speed of 5.0 mm/s. We obtained useful gamma images of some test specimens such as a duplex wire phantom and American Society for Testing and Materials batches from the imaging system and evaluated the image quality in terms of the modulation transfer function, the noise power spectrum, and the detective quantum efficiency.