Project Grant DESC0013215

Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing, LLC was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to develop structural components with corrosion resistant surface layers for advanced nuclear reactor systems. The grant is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will support research at Iowa State University on the development, characterization, and performance evaluation of surface engineered additively manufactured parts for nuclear reactor applications. Specifically, the university will utilize a laser-based directed energy deposition process to fabricate metallic parts from Nitronic 60 stainless steel, a material used in nuclear reactor...

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...

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to TDA Research, Inc. to develop a "Regeneratable Salt Vapor and Chlorine Gas Dual Cartridge Sorbent System for Molten Salts Nuclear Reactors." The award was made on February 12, 2024, with a target completion date of November 11, 2024. Under this grant, TDA Research will collaborate with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to design and test functional...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to evaluate the susceptibility of two alternative candidate materials for use in construction of storage tanks, compared to a previously developed susceptibility map for 347H stainless steel. The $270,000 award to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, a prominent federal contractor...

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...

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...

The University of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $1,802,500.00 Cooperative Agreement on December 11, 2024 by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) to develop a tungsten-ceramic composite material that meets specific performance requirements for use as a plasma-facing component (PFC) material in fusion energy applications. The key objectives of this project are to: Develop a tungsten-ceramic composite that has high fracture toughness...

This $222,754 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to investigate the synergistic effects of irradiation and molten salt corrosion on nickel-chromium (NiCr) alloys. The overarching objectives are to advance the fundamental understanding of molten salt corrosion mechanisms and the interaction between...