The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) to The Ohio State University to develop rad-hard FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to improve digital resilience in modernizing digital instrumentation and controls regulatory infrastructure. The project will be conducted over a 3-year period from March 2024 to March 2027. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include research,...
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has been awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008). The funding will support the manufacturing of spent fuel storage canisters with superior stress corrosion cracking resistance using advanced hybrid laser-arc welding and high-pressure cold spray additive post-processing. The project period runs from March 8, 2024 to March 7, 2027. As part of this grant,...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) to the University of New Mexico to provide confirmatory testing and analysis of vessel cooling systems in support of design certifications for advanced reactors. The award, effective from September 13, 2024 to September 12, 2027, will fund specialized research and technical services to enhance nuclear technology, safety, and regulatory capabilities. This...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) supports large-scale soil-structure-fluid interaction testing and analysis to enhance seismic risk assessment models of advanced reactor designs. The award was made to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), which is a state-controlled higher education institution and...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) provides $482,592.00 to Purdue University to develop a novel Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) model for advanced nuclear reactors. The project aims to enhance nuclear safety and security assessments for emerging reactor designs. This 3-year award, effective March 8, 2024, supports Purdue University's research and modeling...
The Ohio State University received a $111,354 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). The award will support scientific infrastructure at the university from October 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024. The Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program promotes resolving technical challenges to nuclear energy through research in order to advance nuclear...
The Ohio State University received a $400,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) for the period of October 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The award will support the Nuclear Energy University Programs Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research project being conducted by The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Under the award, The Ohio State University will collaborate with the...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) to the Georgia Tech Research Corp, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, with a performance period from September 13, 2024 to September 12, 2027. The grant supports research to evaluate the scalability of dose-based siting boundaries for multi-unit advanced reactor plants using a consequence-driven, physical security-informed framework. As...
This Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121), provides $200,000.00 to The Ohio State University to support the "UNIVERSITY REACTOR SHARING & OUTREACH" project. The award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2026, will enable The Ohio State University to leverage its nuclear research reactor and expertise to facilitate reactor sharing and outreach...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008), provides $500,000.00 in funding to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to conduct research on "CONTROL OF HYBRID ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO ENHANCE MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE FOR NUCLEAR POWER APPLICATIONS". The project, which runs from November 29, 2024 to November 28, 2027, will focus on developing advanced additive manufacturing...