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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.
William H. Miller, Li-Te Lin, Robert M. Brugger, Walter Meyer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 2 | August 1992 | Pages 252-257
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34695
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The notched neutron spectrum filter technique is a method for determining hydrogen content in metals. A modified version of this technique has been proposed and has now been tested with both experiments and calculations. This modified technique takes advantage of the angular dependence of neutrons scattered by hydrogen nuclei to increase the sensitivity of the technique by a factor of ∼ 20. An experimental accuracy of 0. 4 wppm of hydrogen in a typical 0.31-cm-thick steel sample has been obtained. The technique is also applicable to a wide variety of problems where small amounts of hydrogen in, or on, another metal or high atomic number material must be determined.
