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The capture and storage of volatile and semi-volatile radionuclides from aqueous reprocessing of used nuclear fuel (UNF) represent over 10% of capital costs and a significant fraction of operating expenses. While the current reprocessing schemes can capture, separate, and store the byproducts, they require substantial consumables or extreme temperatures (e.g., cryogenic distillation) and create si ...

BamCore is a small and growing business that utilizes nature’s strongest and fastest growing structural fiber–timber bamboo–to deliver a prefabricated, code-compliant wall system that turns low-rise buildings into carbon sinks, while also lowering operating carbon. BamCore’s patented Prime Wall system is a bamboo-based studless wall that is stronger, greener, thermally superior, healthier, ...

BamCore is a small and growing business that utilizes nature’s strongest and fastest growing structural fiber–timber bamboo–to deliver a prefabricated, code-compliant wall system that turns low-rise buildings into carbon sinks, while also lowering operating carbon. BamCore’s patented Prime Wall system is a bamboo-based studless wall that is stronger, greener, thermally superior, healthier, ...

BamCore is a small and growing business that utilizes nature’s strongest and fastest growing structural fiber–timber bamboo–to deliver a prefabricated, code-compliant wall system that turns low-rise buildings into carbon sinks, while also lowering operating carbon. BamCore’s patented Prime Wall system is a bamboo-based studless wall that is stronger, greener, thermally superior, healthier, ...

SpaceLoon proposes to design, prototype, and test a consistent, reliable, and bi-directional Controlled Altitude Ballooning (CAB) system for monitoring climate constituents, such as energetic particles (solar and cosmic) and thermodynamic variables, across various atmospheric layers. The absence of linkage between space weather events and atmospheric physics, chemistry, and dynamics, creates voids ...

The Orbital Wildfire Resilience (OWR) project comprises the innovative combination of MyRadar’s miniaturized satellite technology, onboard Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing, and wide-reaching dissemination platform to improve the wildfire hazard resilience of stakeholders. This research facilitates the development of new MyRadar commercial alerting, nowcasting, and satellite imagery produc ...

The lack of consistent, accurate information on local wildfire behavior, such as gustiness of winds at wildfire fronts and ember showers is one of the most critical data gaps for wildfire managers. Atmospheric processes in the atmospheric boundary layer significantly influence the behavior of wildfires. Temporal and spatial variability of fine-scale winds at the wildfire front plays a key role in ...

There is a need for more capable and affordable means to measure optical properties and biological constituents of marine and freshwater environments. These measures are crucial for estimating the abundance of organisms such as those producing harmful algal blooms (HABs). Affordable and effective methods to extend the measurement range and improve sensitivity of traditional optical instruments wil ...

One of the most prominent challenges for the safe cultivation and maintenance of animals is control of infectious diseases. A. ocellatum is a parasitic infection that impacts all fish within the wide environmental range resulting in mass moralities in captivity. With a broad host and geographic range, all fish in aquaculture ($10B annually), aquarium trade species ($278M annually), and conservatio ...

Lidar has revolutionized the collection of archeological, geographical, and cartographic data on dry land. Its use below the water’s surface however has been severely limited. Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers (TDSX) is proposing to develop a compact underwater Lidar system for use on small ROVs and AUVs. TDSX proposes to continue the Phase 1 collaborative effort between TDSX and BeamSea Associates to com ...