Project Grant DENA0004056

This $2.8 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will fund the PIONEERING A CERMET WASTE FORM FOR DISPOSAL OF WASTE STREAMS FROM ADVANCED REACTORS (PACE-FORWARD) project led by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The three-year project aims to develop and demonstrate to Technology Readiness Level 6 a high-density, durable ceramic-metal (cermet) waste form suitable for immobilizing all types of wastes from...

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Environmental Remediation and Waste Processing and Disposal program (CFDA 81.104) to the State of California Water Resources Control Board (State Water Resources). The grant supports technical reviews and comments on reports and studies for the environmental restoration of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories sites. The project has an award...

The University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) to support the Faculty Development Program for Radiochemistry and Radiological Health Physics. The three-year award running from May 2021 through May 2024 will provide funding to develop radiochemistry and health physics faculty at the university. The NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program aims to support...

This federal Project Grant award of $559,250.00 was provided by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The funding supports a research project titled "PREDICTION AND UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT OF IRRADIATED FUELED FLUORIDE MOLTEN SALT THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND THERMAL HYDRAULIC RESPONSE FOR MSR LICENSING" with a performance period from November 29, 2024 to November 28,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130), establishes a collaborative research program between the University of Iowa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The $300,000 award, spanning September 2024 to September 2027, supports graduate students to gain expertise in nuclear and radiochemical...

This $500,000 Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008), aims to drastically reduce variation in melt pool and microstructure in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. The award was made to the University of Pittsburgh on November 29, 2024 and is set to run through November 28, 2027. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include the development of...

The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,010,604 Project Grant to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on the "Adverse Neural Effects of Inhalation Exposure to Burn Pits". The grant, which runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the public. LLNS, which operates the...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) is funding research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to advance the evaluation of multiphase flow in large geometric configurations. The project will run from January 31, 2025 to January 30, 2028. The NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program provides funding for nuclear science and engineering research, education, and workforce...

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 $305,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) to Spearstone Solutions, LLC supports the development of an innovative, eco-friendly process technology to separate radioactive contaminants from phosphogypsum, a problematic waste byproduct of fertilizer production. The project aims to safely isolate and dispose of the radioactive components, while converting the remaining gypsum into economically viable...