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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.
Se Woo Cheon, Soon Heung Chang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 102 | Number 2 | May 1993 | Pages 177-191
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34815
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Expert systems that have neural networks for their knowledge bases are called connectionist expert systems. Several powerful advantages of connectionist expert systems over conventional rule-based expert systems are discussed. The backpropagation network (BPN) algorithm is applied to the connectionist expert system for the identification of transients in nuclear power plants. In this approach, the transient is identified by mapping or associating patterns of symptom input vectors to patterns representing transient conditions. The general mapping capability of the neural network allows one to identify a transient easily. A number of case studies are performed with emphasis on the applicability of the neural network to the classification problems. Based on the case studies, the BPN algorithm can identify the transient well, although untrained, incomplete, sensor-failed, or time-varying symptoms are given. Also, multiple transients are easily identified with a given symptom input vector.
