 I'm Ian Hamilton and I'm developing technology that makes batteries out of nuclear waste. So the goal of my research is actually to develop technology to recycle radioactive waste in the form of more cost-effective, radioactive batteries that are also more efficient. I started working on this concept as an undergrad in Purdue Material Science and quickly developed a business plan and founded my company and then took that idea into grad school in the Purdue Nuclear Engineering Program where I researched it some more but it quickly became apparent that I was going to need a much bigger electron source than I currently had access to so I could only come do it here at the Argonne National Lab chain reactions program. So chain reaction innovations is sort of like an incubator but it's different in a lot of ways. It's a two-year program. The focus is on entrepreneurial training so primarily we're focused on entrepreneurs who want to learn how to translate energy technologies into the market. They do the technical work and they drive the project as the project lead but they also learn the business stuff that goes along with it. How to connect to the market, how to learn what problem they're solving in the market or what problem they could solve with the technology and then how to move the technology by doing technical work in order to at the end of the day deliver a product that the market cares about. Traditional batteries like the ones that NASA use are incredibly expensive and the isotopes have to be man-made. I'm developing technology that specifically is designed to use isotopes from spent nuclear fuel so that it can bring the cost down and allow for widespread adoption of the technologies in their niche markets. Argonne has a very long legacy of moving innovations in nuclear space into actual applications that have high societal impact and Ian's is a perfect example of just the latest chapter in that story. My advice is if you have thoughts about starting your own company or want to do something in entrepreneurship and innovation do the entrepreneurship certificate at Purdue. That started out with business model canvases and business plan competitions and stuff like that and so that's what really helped me accelerate. It's one thing to do research and scientific discoveries and whatnot but if you can't turn it into a technology or commercialize it that where it's actually used by the public then it basically goes to waste.