Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001614
Award Date 7/15/22
Completion Date 4/14/26
Dollars Obligated $2.8M
Federal Agency
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Cooperative Agreement
Place of Performance
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Similar Awards
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was awarded a $1.627 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop waste-to-energy (WTE)-derived low-carbon-footprint concrete (LCFC). The award, issued on September 30, 2021 under ARPA-E's program to support new energy technology areas, will fund Rutgers' research through March 29, 2024 to produce concrete with reduced carbon emissions through the use of ash from municipal...
- This $2,130,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CHADWICK program is focused on developing composited low-activation ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) materials for fusion energy first wall applications. The award recipient, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY) doing business as Stony Brook University, will investigate ways to create high conductivity, tough, radiation and...
- This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), supports the development of a transformational technology for transmuting the U.S. minor actinide and selected fission product stockpile. The $2,864,750 project, awarded to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on September 8, 2025, proposes a subcritical fission blanket system utilizing a liquid lead-based nanofluid to carry the transmutation targets. Key innovations include...
- This federal Project Grant award of $900,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) on August 1, 2024. The primary focus of the research project is on metal-loaded zeolites as effective and mechanically robust iodine sorbents for nuclear applications. UNR has issued a $342,000 sub-award to the Missouri University of Science &...
- This $1,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (CFDA 81.121 - Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration) supports comprehensive research initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pittsburgh focused on advancing nuclear energy science and technology. The key research efforts under this grant include: Computational thermodynamic and diffusional modeling on the Fe-Cr-Al-Mo alloy system to understand the...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, provides $1,189,750 to Iowa State University to develop novel nanoparticle-strengthened ferritic and vanadium-based alloys for future fusion power plants. The accelerated materials discovery process aims to computationally guide alloy development, followed by rapid powder synthesis and processing methods to produce reliable structural materials. As part of this multi-institution project,...
- The University of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $1,802,500.00 Cooperative Agreement on December 11, 2024 by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to develop a tungsten-ceramic composite material that meets specific performance requirements for use as a plasma-facing component (PFC) material in fusion energy applications. The key objectives of this project are to: Develop a tungsten-ceramic composite that has high fracture toughness...
- The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to North Carolina State University (NC State). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, supports a research project titled "Hi-Fidelity Characterization of Molten Salt - Graphite Pore Interactions through Experiments and Embedded Modeling." The project involves experimental and modeling work to...
- This $600,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121) funds research at the University of California, Berkeley to establish standardized testing methodologies and guidelines for assessing the degradation of nuclear fuel pebbles under extreme reactor conditions. The University will develop compression, hardness, and three-point bend tests on fuel pebble samples and deposit testing data in a common...
- This $800,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) supports nuclear energy research activities at Clemson University. The funding will advance work over a 3-year period from October 2023 through September 2026. The project aims to develop and test new materials, such as two-dimensional carbides and carbo-chalcogenides, for applications in nuclear energy. Key work...