Week 11 of 2024
Three nuclear energy innovation news!
🌘 Interlune (US) announces a $15m raise from Seven Seven Six, Aurelia Foundry, Gaingels, Liquid 2 Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Founded by two of Blue Origin's earliest employees, the company aims to mine Helium-3 from the lunar surface and return it to Earth. Deuterium + Helium-3 is one of the four candidate fusion reactions, albeit with a considerably lower power density than the more conventional Deuterium + Tritium. However, it has the benefit of producing no neutrons.
👉 More on fusion reactions on Nicholas Hawker's blog: https://tinyurl.com/k4xubacn
🤖 Atomic Canyon (US) emerges from stealth and unveils Neutron, its custom-build AI search platform. It was trained on 52 millions pages ofdigitized documents from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Document Access and Management System (ADAMS). According to the company, Neutron is able to cut search time by orderes of magnitude.
📜 The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission join a trilateral memorandum of cooperation to collaborate on the assessment of new reactor technologies. The objective is to improve regulatory effectivness and efficiency. A much needed initiative, let's hope we'll see more!
👨🎓 Paper of the week - well, actually six papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity by the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
👉 Their magnet achieved a field of 20 T while storing 110 MJ.
👇 Did you spot anything else? Let me me know!
