Project Grant DENE0009041

This $433,333 Project Grant award to the University of Wisconsin Madison was made by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration (CFDA 81.121) program. The funding supports comprehensive research, development, and demonstration initiatives to advance nuclear energy science and technology in the United States. Specifically, the project aims to harness and extend the success of a previous Nuclear Energy University Programs (NUEP) project...

High Energy Metals, Inc. received a $199,912 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support research and development of explosively bonding corrosion resistant bimetallic materials for liquid-cooled, high temperature reactor systems. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

This $600,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121) funds research at the University of California, Berkeley to establish standardized testing methodologies and guidelines for assessing the degradation of nuclear fuel pebbles under extreme reactor conditions. The University will develop compression, hardness, and three-point bend tests on fuel pebble samples and deposit testing data in a common...

Cerium Laboratories LLC was awarded a $206,400 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop silicon nitride protective coatings for accident tolerant fuels through April 28, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Cerium Laboratories will leverage its...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (CFDA 81.121 - Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration) supports comprehensive research initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pittsburgh focused on advancing nuclear energy science and technology. The key research efforts under this grant include: Computational thermodynamic and diffusional modeling on the Fe-Cr-Al-Mo alloy system to understand the...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration (CFDA 81.121) program supports research at Brigham Young University (BYU) to advance nuclear energy science and technology. The funded work focuses on improving the reliability of novel TRISO fuel forms for advanced nuclear reactors through multiscale, high-throughput characterization and modeling. The grant award has a performance...

This $203,143 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports the development of advanced computing capabilities to enable boiling water reactor lifetime extensions at Veracity Nuclear, LLC. The funding will advance Veracity Nuclear's work on high-performance computing solutions, machine learning applications, and sophisticated software tools for nuclear reactor core simulation, optimization, and analysis. Key...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to North Carolina State University (NC State). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, supports a research project titled "Hi-Fidelity Characterization of Molten Salt - Graphite Pore Interactions through Experiments and Embedded Modeling." The project involves experimental and modeling work to...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a Project Grant of $199,977 to Sawtooth Simulation, LLC to develop a science-based predictive simulation capability for the design and analysis of advanced nuclear fuel concepts operating in a virtual reactor environment. The funding for this project, which falls under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will be used to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative...

The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy awarded a $900,000 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The grant will support a research project focused on advancing silicon carbide composite (SiCf-SiCm) cladding materials for nuclear applications. As a funded collaborator, General Atomics will provide sixteen SiCf-SiCm composite cladding tubes with varying surface morphologies and...