The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $945,688 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA #81.135). The three-year award will support the CONVERTING UNF RADIOISOTOPES INTO ENERGY (CURIE) project from January 2023 through January 2026. Under this Cooperative Agreement, the University of Colorado will work with ARPA-E to develop...
This $855,000 Project Grant award 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). The funding supports research by Oregon State University to advance the understanding of fission gas release mechanisms in uranium dioxide (UO2) nuclear fuel, including studies on doped UO2 materials. The project involves a sub-award to the University of Florida to conduct complementary mechanistic...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $200,000 to Adelphi Technology Inc. to develop a powder neutron diffractometer for testing irradiation effects in nuclear fuels and materials. The award period runs from July 22, 2024 to April 21, 2025. Adelphi Technology Inc. is a for-profit manufacturer of scientific instruments and technologies specializing in neutron generators, neutron optics, and advanced...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (CFDA 81.121 - Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration) provides $7,102,046.67 in funding to Purdue University to revitalize and improve university-led nuclear R&D infrastructure. The goal is to establish and enhance facilities, equipment, and capabilities to enable advanced reactor-relevant research, education, and workforce development prior to universities setting up new advanced research...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,800,000.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The award supports comprehensive research and development initiatives to advance nuclear energy science and technology in the United States. The primary awardee, Boise State University, will conduct research and development activities related to existing nuclear reactor capabilities,...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $206,500 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Veracity Nuclear, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in advanced nuclear technologies, computational methods, and software development. The grant, with a period of performance from July 22, 2024 to May 21, 2025, is for the project "OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH BURNUP LIGHT WATER REACTOR CORES WITHIN FUEL PERFORMANCE...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,499,783 Cooperative Agreement to Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on "Nuclear Product Detection from Deuterated Nanoparticles under Phonon Stimulation" under CFDA #81.135. The 3-year project aims to investigate low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) through experimental and theoretical studies. Key personnel and resources will be provided by subcontractor...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Tennessee at Knoxville a $1,993,576 cooperative agreement under the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA #81.135) to develop a microfluidic alpha spectrometer for in-situ materials accountancy and control in liquid-fueled molten salt reactors. The University will create an alpha spectrometer to accurately measure the elemental and isotopic composition of reactor fuel in real-time....
This $499,999 Project Grant was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, to Fuceltech Inc. dba Princeton Innotech. The purpose of this award under ARPA-E's SPARKS program (DE-FOA-0003164) is to develop the next generation of high-power diode pump lasers to increase pulse energy density for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Specifically, the goal...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the 81.135 CFDA program, provides $500,000.00 to Syracuse University to build an ultra-high power photoneutralization laser cavity prototype. The purpose of this project is to enable efficient, continuous neutral beam injection in tokamak fusion reactors. Photoneutralization has the potential to achieve over 99% neutralization efficiency, compared to the current state-of-the-art gas-cell...