Project Grant NRCHQ12G040084

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...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) will support research to evaluate the scalability of dose-based siting boundaries for multi-unit advanced reactor plants using a consequence-driven physical security-informed framework. The primary awardee, Georgia Tech Research Corp, will lead the project which involves developing source terms for severe accident analyses and integrating physical...

This $499,517 project grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) supports non-dimensional analysis of density-wave instabilities and dryout-rewet cycles during an anticipated transient without scram (ATWS) event at nuclear power plants. Awarded on March 15, 2021 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA #77.008), the grant will fund research through March 14, 2024. Sub-awards totaling $99,903.40 were...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) provides $482,592.00 to Purdue University to develop a novel Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) model for advanced nuclear reactors. The project aims to enhance nuclear safety and security assessments for emerging reactor designs. This 3-year award, effective March 8, 2024, supports Purdue University's research and modeling...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy, under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration (CFDA 81.121) program, provides $880,000.00 in funding to Constellation Energy Generation, LLC to support research on "SIMULATION-INFORMED DEPENDENCY TREATMENT TO ENHANCE OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY, AVOID PRODUCTION LOSS, AND MAINTAIN SAFETY OF OPERATING PLANTS AND ADVANCED REACTORS". The project aims to develop advanced...

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 $425,309 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), the University of Dayton Research Institute will produce scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-supercritical CO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers. The project aims to...

This $500,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) supports confirmatory testing and analysis of vessel cooling systems to aid in the design certification of advanced nuclear reactors. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is the prime awardee and will perform this research over a 3-year project period from September 2024 to September 2027. The project aims to advance the technical...

This federal Project Grant award of $252,500.00 from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the NRC Scholarship and Fellowship Program (CFDA 77.008) is intended to enable the growth of the nuclear engineering undergraduate scholarship program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The award, with a performance period from June 14, 2024 to June 13, 2027, will support RPI's efforts to expand and strengthen its nuclear engineering education and training initiatives. As a leading...

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...