This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) was provided to Energy Driven Technologies LLC to advance supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power systems and components for Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs). The award, granted on July 22, 2024, supports fundamental research aimed at developing innovative technologies for nuclear fusion and advanced power generation, with a focus on materials...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,913 Project Grant to Pittsburgh Technical LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business in Pennsylvania, to develop a cost estimation tool for advanced reactor production, deployment, and operations. This grant, awarded on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports the company's efforts to advance nuclear engineering research and contribute technical solutions for government...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $206,500 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Veracity Nuclear, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in advanced nuclear technologies, computational methods, and software development. The grant, with a period of performance from July 22, 2024 to May 21, 2025, is for the project "OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH BURNUP LIGHT WATER REACTOR CORES WITHIN FUEL PERFORMANCE...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $198,147 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Decision Sciences International Corporation in Poway, CA. The grant, with a performance period from July 2023 to April 2024, will support research and development on monitoring the integrity of spent nuclear fuel using muon imaging technology. This project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop techniques to enhance the...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Veracity Nuclear, LLC on February 18, 2025 for the development of a "Production-Class High Fidelity Nuclear Reactor Simulation Leveraging Advanced Computing Libraries." This funding supports Veracity Nuclear's work to create advanced software platforms that enhance nuclear reactor design, performance, and safety, with a particular emphasis on leveraging cutting-edge computational techniques...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to KVA Technologies on Jul 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports advanced manufacturing research with real-time composition and microstructure control for nuclear applications. This 1-year project will be conducted at KVA Technologies' facility in Borrego Springs, CA. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program funds innovative, hypothesis-driven...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $203,143 Project Grant to Veracity Nuclear, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, on February 18, 2025. The grant funding, provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports the development of advanced computing capabilities to enable lifetime extensions of boiling water nuclear reactors. Veracity Nuclear specializes in computational methods and software development for the nuclear energy...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "EXPLORATION OF RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR SEEDING MECHANISMS IN LASER- AND PULSED-POWER-DRIVEN INERTIAL FUSION PLATFORMS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that advance energy technologies...
This $900,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121), supports nuclear energy research at North Carolina State University (NC State) from August 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Mechanical properties testing of unirradiated and irradiated materials, including miniature tensile tests, nano tensile tests,...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $1,250,000 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee to validate detailed and reduced order neutronics capabilities for multiphysics applications to fusion reactor thermal, materials, and blanket design optimization. This award, funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas like...