Project Grant DESC0026156

The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy awarded a $2,499,220 Project Grant under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The grant supports university-led research and development initiatives focused on advancing nuclear energy technology, including maintaining existing reactors, developing advanced reactor designs, securing the nuclear fuel cycle, and expanding international nuclear energy cooperation....

The University of Tennessee received a $1,250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to conduct comprehensive research, development, and demonstration initiatives to advance nuclear energy science and technology. The funding will support a multi-year project focused on understanding the thermomechanical behavior and failure mechanisms of TRISO nuclear fuel particles under simulated reactor operating and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary GenAlpha Nuclear Technologies LLC received a $1.06 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) on August 18, 2025, to develop Structured Plasma Cell Thermionic Energy Conversion (SPACE-TEC), a novel nuclear fuel technology designed to directly convert nuclear heat into electricity without conventional power generation systems such as turbine generators. The project, titled...

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 $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 program (CFDA 81.121), will fund research, development, and demonstration activities at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The project aims to advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet U.S. energy, environmental, and national security needs. Specific areas of focus include existing...

MIT received a $2.86 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, effective September 8, 2025 through September 7, 2028, to develop a transformational nuclear waste transmutation technology. The project, titled "Liquid Lead Suspended Fuel Subcritical Fission Blanket for Nuclear Waste Transmutation," proposes an integrated system designed to transmute the entire U.S. minor actinides (MAs) stockpile and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $230,000 over 3 years to the University of Oregon for collaborative research on thermionic energy conversion using 2D layered heterostructures. The research aims to develop a fundamental understanding of thermionic transport and energy conversion in multiple-barrier heterostructures, enabling more efficient solid-state...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,998 Project Grant to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, for the development of a "Passive Two-Phase Microreactor Transportation Cooling System." This grant, provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through...

This federal Project Grant award of $900,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) on August 1, 2024. The primary focus of the research project is on metal-loaded zeolites as effective and mechanically robust iodine sorbents for nuclear applications. UNR has issued a $342,000 sub-award to the Missouri University of Science &...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,985 Project Grant to Bridge 12 Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of terahertz and microwave technology, to develop a 350 GHz, 1 MW class gyrotron for commercial fusion reactors. The grant was funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific research and technology development to advance energy, economic, and national security. Through past federal contract and grant awards, Bridge...