The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), a part of the U.S. Department of Energy, awarded a $1,470,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.135) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) on December 12, 2024. The award supports the "Creating Hardened and Durable Fusion First Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK)" program, which aims to discover, develop, and produce new materials that can maintain key performance metrics in a fusion power...
This $2,130,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135. The purpose of the award is to investigate first wall materials for magnetic or inertial confinement fusion systems, with a focus on developing simultaneously high conductivity, tough, radiation and erosion-resistant plasma facing materials that can be bonded to structural heat sink materials. The award recipient, The Research Foundation for...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Colorado School of Mines. The grant, titled "INFUSE 2024: TESTING OF ENGINEERED MEMBRANES IN FUSION-RELEVANT METAL FOIL PUMPS," will support research focused on testing engineered membranes in fusion-relevant metal foil pumps. This research aims to advance U.S. energy and national security priorities through...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under CFDA Program No. 81.135, provides $499,946 to Exofusion, Inc. for the development of "Novel Liquid Metal Plasma Facing Component Alloys". The project aims to develop new materials that can optimize core confinement and divertor plasma performance for fusion power plant (FPP) applications, which is a critical cost driver for FPPs. The new materials are...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of Michigan to demonstrate a full-scale first-wall prototype based on tungsten-rich refractory multiprincipal-element alloy (MPEA) compositions. This project aims to address a key technology barrier to commercial fusion power. The award period runs from January 17, 2025 to January 16, 2028. ARPA-E's mission is to support transformative and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA Program 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, provides $1,345,309.00 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to support the PISCES Plasma-Materials-Interaction (PMI) program. The PISCES program at UCSD will offer a range of PMI services to six institutional teams conducting fusion materials research under the "Creating Hardened and Durable Fusion First Wall...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, supports the development of an open-access, open-source, browser-based cloud computing framework to enable industry-wide transformation in fusion materials engineering. The $1,495,000 award to the University of Illinois will fund a multi-disciplinary research and development project, titled "Centralized and On-Demand Radiation Transport and Techno-Economics (CORTEX) for...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $449,065.26 Project Grant to Marathon Fusion, Inc. on Sep 25, 2023 under CFDA program 81.135. The grant supports the creation of an integrated test environment for metal foil pumps in the fusion fuel cycle, with the goal of advancing fusion energy technologies to enhance U.S. energy security, reduce emissions, and bolster energy infrastructure resilience. The 21-month project period runs through May 24,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $3,288,000.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to rapidly generate high-fidelity data on irradiated materials. The goal is to accelerate solutions for commercial fusion energy systems under the "FIRE COLLABORATIVE" project. The award period runs from Feb 1, 2025 to Jan 31, 2026. As a premier research institution, MIT will...
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...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA Number 81.135 program, awarded a $1,050,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) on July 9, 2025. The goal of the "Creating Hardened and Durable Fusion First Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK)" program is to discover, develop, and produce new materials that can maintain key performance metrics in a fusion first-wall environment over a 40-year operational period. Specifically, the funding will support research and development efforts to create materials that are highly resistant or functionally immune to irradiation embrittlement, which is a critical challenge for the commercial viability of fusion power plants. The award has a targeted completion date of July 8, 2027.