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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.
Constantine P. Tzanos, Jack H. Tessier, Dean R. Pedersen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 94 | Number 1 | April 1991 | Pages 68-79
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A16222
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effects of design parameters on the performance of the reactor vessel auxiliary cooling system (RVACS) of a pool liquid-metal reactor (LMR) are investigated. These parameters include (a) stack height, (b) size of the airflow gap, (c) system pressure loss, (d) fins on the guard vessel or the baffle wall, and (e) repeated ribs on the airflow channel walls. As a measure of performance, the peak sodium pool temperature during the transient following a reactor scram from full power was used. Horizontal ribs with a 0.003-m height and a 0.015-m pitch gave the best performance, i.e., the lowest peak sodium pool temperature during the scram transient. For a 3500-MW(thermal) LMR, they gave peak hot pool and peak cladding temperatures that were 52°C lower than those obtained with a reference RVACS having smooth airflow channel walls.
