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THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO DEVELOP AN IMPROVED SOURCE OF MULTIPLY-CHARGED IONS FOR HEAVY-ION INERTIAL FUSION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS THAT REQUIRE VERY HIGH BRIGHTNESS. A CONVENTIONAL GAS-DISCHARGE SOURCE IS PLANNED THAT DEPENDS ON THE COMBINATION OF TWO ADDITIONAL NOVEL FEATURES. FIRST, THE INITIAL DENSE HOT PLASMA GAS GENERATED FROM A HIGH PRESSURE MICROCAPILLARY DISCHARGE IS FURTHER HEATED BY A LASER ...

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TII SHALL PROCURE, DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, AND TEST A COMPACT PORTABLE SIMULATOR CAPABLE OF EMULATING NUCLEAR POWER STATION-OPERATOR (NPS-OP) INTERFACES, AND EVALUATE AND TEST VARIOUS INTERFACE DESIGNS. THE SUMULATOR WILL BE DESIGNED FOR OPERATOR TRAINING ON ADVANCED REACTORS AND WILL BE USED IN SIMULATING OPERATORS SCENARIOS AND RECORDING AND DOCUMENTING REAL-TIME INPUT FROM THE OPERATOR. THE SIMULATO ...

Bioproduction is typically reliant on host-organisms to express the enzymes needed for a synthetic pathway, which suffers from drawbacks like wasted metabolic resources, feedstock toxicity, and purification. Cell-free bioproduction is the logical alternative, but one major drawback is stability of the enzymes in the absence of a cell. For cell-free bioproduction to be feasible, enzymes will need t ...

Over the past few years several beam halo detection techniques have been invented to minimize the beam interception rate and accuracy of measurements. However, instrumentation for these measurements are complex systems and are not modular. The systems tend to be specialized for a single facility, or even a single part of a beamline. Also, these systems can hardly be reused or moved to another loca ...

Commercial buildings consume 40% of total U.S. energy demand. Studies have shown that successfully integrating solar modules into building façades can substantially reduce the net building energy load depending on location, orientation, and time of year. Our Company brings with it 20+ years of critical intellectual property development on thin film organic solar cells, and we have subcontracted w ...

Concentrating Solar Power utilizes molten salt thermal storage to enable 24 hour energy production and shift power production to times of less sunlight.Current molten salts operate using nitrate salts operating at 565°C.To improve performance, efficiency, and cost effectiveness switching to mixed chloride salts operating from 350-800°C is required. Increasing salt operating temperatures can redu ...

Power electronics for Grid-tied Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) featuring: (a) newly developed monolithically integrated High Voltage SiC MOSFET- Schottky Diodes; (b) Intelligent Gate Drivers that provide in-situ monitoring and restoration capabilities; and (c) novel three level Neutral point clamping topology are proposed. An isolated topology such as dual active bridge followed by an activ ...

At present, an international consortium is engaged in a project that involves construction of an historical large-scale, energy-positive fusion reactor. Among the numerous components undergoing development and refinement are the divertor modules situated at the bottom of the vacuum vessel, which extract heat and ash produced by the fusion reaction, minimize plasma contamination, and protect the su ...

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