Project Grant HDTRA11610010

This Cooperative Agreement award of $300,000 from the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130) aims to accelerate nuclear forensics data processing and reporting. The University of Florida will develop state-of-the-art analytical methods, coding tools, and theoretical calculations to rapidly identify and quantify elemental and isotopic constituents in radioactive fallout...

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....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $175,000 to Michigan State University to develop and test a laser-based detector capable of efficiently capturing and selectively identifying atomic products from a low-yield nuclear reaction. The primary goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of using optical single atom detection in cryogenic noble gas solids for detecting the atomic products of rare...

The Department of Energy awarded a $1.53 million cooperative agreement to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA 81.135) for a three-year project titled "Non-Neutron Transmutation of Used Nuclear Fuel." The project aims to develop a transformational technology for long-lived fission product transmutation using non-neutron particles such as energetic photons and protons. If successful, this technology could...

Georgia Tech Research Corporation will receive $1.395 million from the Department of Homeland Security under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program to develop computational tools and experimental characterization methods for predicting material phase changes in actinide alloys due to oxidation, hydriding, corrosion, irradiation, and radiation damage from May 2023 through April 2026. The award will support the development of atomistic and mesoscale modeling augmented with...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130) provides $298,839 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to investigate the Raman signatures of transition metals in uranium dioxide, a potential component of a radiological dispersal device. The research aims to understand how these transition metals are distributed between the...

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 $206,428 Project Grant to Friedman Research Corp in Austin, TX under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports a research project titled "RISK ANALYSIS AND HIGH-FIDELITY MODELING OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL DERAILMENT EVENTS" with a performance period from July 2024 to May 2025. Through this award, Friedman Research Corp, a small disadvantaged business, will leverage its expertise in finite...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $104,586 Project Grant through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to Auburn University. The grant is for the development of new computational tools based on an adaptive hybrid formulation to efficiently solve the radiative transport equation, which is a key model used in applications such as biomedical imaging, clinical radiotherapy treatment planning, and security scanning. The project aims to combine the advantages of...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130) aims to establish a collaborative research program between the University of Iowa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The goal is to create a forum where graduate students can gain expertise in nuclear and radiochemical sciences under the mentorship of university and national laboratory...