Energy Dept’s Idaho National Laboratory launches innovation center

Ashley Finan and Nicholas Smith, laboratory director and deputy director, respectively, who joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about their work.

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The Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory has established a new innovation center to focus on a new generation of commercial reactor technologies. Heading up that office are Ashley Finan and Nicholas Smith, laboratory director and deputy director, respectively, who joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about their work.

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