Project Grant DENE0009428

Itasca Consulting Group Inc. received a $199,293 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop an efficient multi-scale, thermo-hydro-mechanical numerical model. The model will be used to simulate the long-term stability of rooms for nuclear waste disposal. The work is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform...

Under this $500,347 cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation on May 24, 2022, Nuscale Power LLC will provide an E2 Center small modular reactor simulator to SNN in Romania. The E2 Center simulator is based on Nuscale's small modular reactor design and will be delivered under the agreement's completion date of December 31, 2023. This award is part of the State Department's Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033), which...

Criticality Sciences, Inc. will develop the NetResilience software tool under a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award falls under NIST's Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), which aims to stimulate technological innovation. NetResilience will provide scalable, cost-informed resilience metrics and mitigation guidance for networked infrastructure against catastrophic...

This $310,085 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of a unified numerical framework for understanding co-seismic slope failures at complex sites. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the two-year award made to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University will advance the fundamental understanding of earthquake-triggered slope failures and help predict, reduce, and mitigate their destructive consequences. The grantee will develop and validate...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $100,000 supports research at Purdue University from September 2022 to August 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to strengthen community resilience to natural hazards like earthquakes by incorporating stakeholder priorities into risk mitigation efforts. Specifically, the university will conduct social and physical experiments to better understand vulnerability of pre-1970s concrete buildings and evaluate community...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering has awarded a $391,951 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University to develop a novel system for rapidly and accurately assessing cascading seismic hazards and impacts using satellite imagery and causal modeling. The project, funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to integrate satellite data with existing geophysical and structural fragility models to jointly estimate the occurrence and location of...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $459,173 supports research advancing the theory and practice of robust simulation analysis under input model risk. Funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will develop a robust decision-making framework to quantify, reduce, and ensure robust decisions when probability distribution functions driving randomness in simulation models are estimated based on available data, introducing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $100,000 to support the planning and development of a new shared-use, community-scale testbed for research on climate adaptation and disaster resilience. The testbed will serve as a cyber-physical environment representative of real-world community systems, enabling policy design, model integration, and theory development related to climate change impacts and natural hazards. The planning...

This five-year, $598,450 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research accelerating hybrid physical-numerical simulations in natural hazards engineering using graphics processing units. The grantee, Stanford University, will develop advanced numerical methods harnessing graphics processors to overcome computational bottlenecks in structural simulations. In particular, the research will derive and demonstrate algorithms enabling...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wyoming received a $199,064 Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041) effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027. This project grant funds research and development of the Globally Responsive Absolute Seismic Protection (GRASP) system, a novel passive seismic protection system for nuclear power plants that utilizes...