Project Grant 31310021M0025

The University of Florida (UF) has been awarded a $819,462 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The grant, which began on October 1, 2023 and will run through September 30, 2026, will fund UF's research and development work related to advancing nuclear energy science and technology. Key focus areas include existing reactor operations, advanced reactor designs, nuclear...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida Board of Trustees received a $242,720 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) on March 13, 2026, with a completion date of March 12, 2027. This award supports Scientific Infrastructure Support for Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research at the University of Florida's Gainesville, Florida campus. The funding is...

The University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research, was awarded a $799,999 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The purpose of this 36-month award, which began on August 1, 2024, is to develop a new capability for concurrent generation and use of physics-informed Gaussian process surrogate models to enable multiscale and multiphysics modeling for nuclear reactor applications. The project will...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida received a $371,518 project grant award dated March 2, 2026, from the National Nuclear Security Administration under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research in high-energy-density laboratory plasmas (HEDLP). The award, which extends through March 1, 2029, is issued under the joint SC-NNSA Joint Program in High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas, a collaborative partnership between the Department...

This $300,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130) will support the University of Florida in developing advanced capabilities for the rapid and accurate separation and analysis of nuclear forensics debris samples. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing new chemical separation methods, theoretical modeling,...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received a $200,000 project grant award from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to enable the strong growth of its Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship Program. The award was provided under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) from March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. This program provides funding for undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, and trade school and community college scholarships...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121), supports nuclear energy research at North Carolina State University (NC State) from August 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Mechanical properties testing of unirradiated and irradiated materials, including miniature tensile tests, nano tensile tests,...

The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign will provide nuclear energy research and development under a $690,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. The award is part of the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121), which promotes resolving technical, cost, safety, security, and proliferation resistance challenges to nuclear energy through research. Under this three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 and...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $882,615 Project Grant to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) on August 1, 2024. The grant funding supports a 3-year research project focused on developing a benchmark model for a near real-time radionuclide composition measurement system using microcalorimetry for advanced nuclear reactors. As part of this grant, VCU will collaborate with the University of Florida...

This $920,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) supports nuclear energy research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The funding, which has an award date of August 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027, will enable the university to conduct comprehensive research initiatives aimed at maintaining existing nuclear reactor capabilities, developing advanced...