Cooperative Agreement DENA0003967

This $492,652 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will enable Montana State University (MSU) to acquire and deploy a state-of-the-art high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support computational research and education across the four-campus MSU system. The HPC resources, including advanced machine learning-optimized GPUs paired with the latest CPUs, will significantly improve the speed and capabilities of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to James Madison University (JMU) will support the development, construction, and commissioning of a modular array based on plastic scintillator detectors for fast neutron detection. The $436,952 award will enable the research team to create an advanced neutron detector that significantly improves position resolution compared to current designs, advancing nuclear structure studies...

This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $1,684,550.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a community-driven cyberinfrastructure for simulating cosmic events like binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star mergers. The "E=MC2" project aims to create the first open-source, exascale-capable numerical relativity and general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics...

This $839,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the development, construction, and commissioning of a modular fast neutron detector array based on plastic scintillator technology. The new detector system is intended to significantly improve the position resolution for measuring breakup products of neutron-rich atomic nuclei, enabling more precise nuclear structure studies at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams...

This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of GPU-accelerated first-principles simulation techniques to model exciton dynamics in complex materials systems over three years. Led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the collaborative research effort will implement novel methods for describing quantum-mechanical...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Stewardship Science Grant Program (CFDA 81.112) provides $300,000 in funding to the University of Notre Dame to develop and implement innovative solution combustion synthesis (SCS) methods for preparing highly radioactive plutonium (Pu) and americium (Am) targets essential for nuclear science measurements. The central goal is to leverage the self-generated heat during rapid SCS to produce...

This $199,977 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) is supporting Sawtooth Simulation, LLC in developing a science-based predictive simulation capability for the design and analysis of advanced nuclear fuel concepts operating in a virtual reactor environment. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in nuclear physics and...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "EXPLORATION OF RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR SEEDING MECHANISMS IN LASER- AND PULSED-POWER-DRIVEN INERTIAL FUSION PLATFORMS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that advance energy technologies...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $1,262,150.02 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop "An Open Source Nuclear Modeling Ecosystem to Support Fusion Pilot Plant Design". The award, granted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund a one-year project starting on September 1, 2024 and concluding on August 31, 2025. The grant supports fundamental and applied research to advance U.S....

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) will support research to evaluate the scalability of dose-based siting boundaries for multi-unit advanced reactor plants using a consequence-driven physical security-informed framework. The primary awardee, Georgia Tech Research Corp, will lead the project which involves developing source terms for severe accident analyses and integrating physical...