Project Grant NRC0407099

This $640,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy through the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) supports nuclear energy safety analysis and fuel performance modeling at the University of Tennessee from October 2021 through September 2024. The University will perform safety analysis of high-burnup fuel for a Westinghouse 4-loop pressurized water reactor, encompassing normal operation, anticipated operational...

This $294,660 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, under the NIEHS Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training program (CFDA 93.142), will support Radiation Emergency Services LLC to develop a prototype simulation game and training platform. The RadTeamSim-ROUTE simulation aims to address gaps in hands-on radiological field survey training by blending radiological dose modeling with gaming software. This will create...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (CFDA 81.121 - Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration) provides $200,000 to Purdue University to support the "University Reactor Sharing and Outreach (RS & O)" program. The objectives of this initiative are to: (1) strengthen nuclear science and engineering curriculum at universities without research reactors, (2) increase collaboration opportunities in nuclear research, (3)...

This project grant of $199,998 awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) began September 1, 2025, and will conclude August 31, 2027. The project, conducted at Purdue University, develops and delivers an educational intervention designed to improve safety awareness and attitudes among undergraduate engineering and technology students. The primary deliverables include a theoretically grounded curriculum that cultivates metacognitive skills enabling students...

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...

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....

Under this $500,347 cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation on May 24, 2022, Nuscale Power LLC will provide an E2 Center small modular reactor simulator to SNN in Romania. The E2 Center simulator is based on Nuscale's small modular reactor design and will be delivered under the agreement's completion date of December 31, 2023. This award is part of the State Department's Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033), which...

The Department of Energy awarded the University of Tennessee a $3.2 million cooperative agreement from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027 under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121). The award will support research into innovative nuclear energy programs including the design and testing of new operator interfaces incorporating human factors for reliable hybrid plant operations. It will also fund the analysis of appropriate response procedures for...

This $625,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the CFDA 81.121 Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program will support North Carolina State University's (NC State) research and development activities focused on advancing nuclear energy science and technology. The grant will fund a 5-year research initiative at NC State to address technical, cost, safety, security, and proliferation resistance challenges in the nuclear...

The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign will provide nuclear energy research and development under a $690,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. The award is part of the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121), which promotes resolving technical, cost, safety, security, and proliferation resistance challenges to nuclear energy through research. Under this three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 and...