Project Grant DESC0019835

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...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $206,000.00 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to Faraday Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Physical Sciences Inc., for the development of "ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED HEAT EXCHANGERS FOR SCO2 AND MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTORS". The project aims to advance innovative heat exchanger technologies for use in supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) and molten salt nuclear reactor systems. Faraday...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $199,856 to Diversified Technologies, Inc. to develop a liquid sodium electromagnetic pump. The award period runs from July 10, 2023 through April 9, 2024. Diversified Technologies, Inc. is a specialty electronics manufacturer that has previously received numerous DOE and Department of Defense contracts and grants for research, development, and...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Cinco Research Corporation a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the Advanced Manufacturing and Demonstration of Molten Salt Pump project. The grant funded Cinco Research Corporation, located in Knoxville, TN, to deliver products and services focused on advanced manufacturing and demonstrating molten salt pump technologies from June 28, 2021 through August 19, 2022. The...

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Tennessee at Knoxville a $1,993,576 cooperative agreement under the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA #81.135) to develop a microfluidic alpha spectrometer for in-situ materials accountancy and control in liquid-fueled molten salt reactors. The University will create an alpha spectrometer to accurately measure the elemental and isotopic composition of reactor fuel in real-time....

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's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Hifunda LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Salt Lake City, Utah, to develop a radiation shield for high-temperature liquid sodium pumps. This funding was provided through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities. Hifunda...

The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The grant, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will support NC State's research on advancing fundamental molten salt modeling using ultrafast spectroscopy. The project focuses on investigating salt mixtures involving MgCl2, NaCl-MgCl2, and...

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...

The Department of Energy awarded a $800,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The award supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and sub-awardees University of California, Berkeley and Powdermet Inc. to develop cost-competitive molten salt reactor technologies. Molten salt reactors present opportunities to meet key...