(Los Angeles, CA 24MAR06) RadiaBeam Technologies has been awarded another Small Business Innovation in Research grant. The Department of Energy recently completed evaluating 1,387 grant applications in response to the Fiscal Year 2006 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Funding Notice. A total of 289 applications were selected to receive Phase I grants, and RadiaBeam is among the awardees for the third year in a row. .
Under the new grant, RadiaBeam will continue its development of new Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) accelerators. Previous work had concentrated on the development of a compact, high-power FFAG electron accelerator for industrial and security applications. This project will design a model of a large, high-power proton accelerator for proton therapy, waste transmutation, and other nuclear physics applications. Certain hardware components will be built and tested in Phase II. In Phase III, we plan to obtain outside funding to build the model at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
"We are excited to be developing a machine that has a large potential market" stated RadiaBeam President and project Principle Investigator Salime Boucher. "This project is the first step in bringing high-energy proton drivers to the market."
Additional information on RadiaBeam is available at the company web site: http://www.radiabeam.com/
About RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC
RadiaBeam Technologies manufactures products, performs directed research, and provides custom design and engineering services in the beam and accelerator research sector.
Our products come from technology transfer, licensing and original designs. We focus on novel acceleration methods, diagnostics, subsystems and EM radiation production.
The company has three main regimes of specialization: high brightness beams, femtosecond systems, and novel industrial / medical accelerators.
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