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… as an associate professor of physics until 1990. How did you become interested in energy? As a nuclear physicist, you’re always connected to the fission and fusion worlds—much of what you learn is associated with energy. Nuclear fission and fusion innovations have always greatly interested me. Taking a step back, how … been interested in it my entire life. When I entered MIT, it had one of the largest nuclear physics group in the country. I started as a freshman doing physics work and was able to …
Newest ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Robert (Bob) J. Ledoux’s professional experience ranges from professor to entrepreneur and his patents from nonintrusive cargo inspection to medical technologies. Recently we had a chance to visit with Dr. Ledoux to discuss how he will bring his experience to bear to further ARPA-E’s mission.
Three Projects Developing Superconducting Cables with Applications for Grid, Electric Aviation, and Electric-Based Motors & Generators
… implementing HTS in clean energy applications, including low-loss transmission cables, compact nuclear fusion reactors, high-power wind turbine generators, and highly efficient motors and …
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $10 million in funding to three projects developing novel manufacturing technologies for superconducting tapes. Enabling widely available low-cost, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes could have major implications for the United States’ transition to a net-zero energy future.
ARPA-E and Office of Science Provide Funding to Support Enabling Technologies for Commercial Fusion Energy
DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the Office of Science’s Fusion Energy Sciences program (FES), in a joint funding effort, will award up to $30 million in funding to research and develop a range of enabling technologies required for commercially attractive fusion energy.
… storage systems to deliver solar electricity more efficiently around the clock and allow nuclear and fossil baseload resources the flexibility to meet peak demand, 2) fuel produced from …
WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that up to $130 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will be made available to develop five new program areas that could spark critical breakthrough technologies and secure America's energy future.
At ARPA-E, we’re constantly thinking about what new white spaces we can explore in our mission to change how Americans get, use, and store energy. One key tool that we use to help design exciting focused programs is to issue periodic Requests for Information, or RFIs, which ask the research community to submit to us their best ideas for how we can have maximum impact on a specific technical space. RFIs help our Program Directors’ (PDs) build out their ideas.
Technology-to-Market Advisor
… generator, and Dry Low NOx (DLN) gas turbine combustion. Vandervort also completed Nuclear Plant Engineer qualification with the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory nuclear plant operations program. He participated in operations and training at a Naval Nuclear Submarine Prototype. Vandervort received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from …
Dr. Christian Vandervort is as a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).
With ARPA-E Acting Director, Dr. Jennifer Gerbi
… Into Energy (CURIE) program to enable secure, economical recycling of the nation’s used nuclear fuel (UNF) and substantially reduce the volume, heat load, and radiotoxicity of waste … in the areas of life cycle assessment (LCA) tools for carbon negative buildings and low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), as well as a new cohort of small business-focused projects within our … under the ONWARDS program for 11 projects seeking to increase the deployment, and use of, nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy and limit the amount of waste produced from …
2022 saw a series of exciting achievements at ARPA-E. Now, at year’s end, I want to take a moment to recap and appreciate the hard work of our team members, awardees, supporters, and other stakeholders. Thank you for a wonderful year of driving impactful energy innovation.
… Discussion: Market Opportunities in the DoD Moderator: Mr. Bret Kugelmass, Host, “Titans of Nuclear” podcast Panelists: Dr. Juan A. Vitali, HQDA, ODCS, G-4, Future Operations and Strategy … Air Force Office of Energy Assurance 10:50 11:00 BREAK 11:00 11:20 LPO's Advanced Nuclear Projects Solicitation Mr. Edward Rios, U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office 11:20 11:40 Nuclear Cost Drivers Ms. Kirsty Gogan, LucidCatalyst 11:40 12:00 Techno-economic Assessment …
ARPA-E held a kick-off meeting for its Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER) program from December 11-12, 2018 at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Charlotte, NC.
We sat down with Program Director Dr. William Horak to chat about his professional experiences, interest in advanced thermal systems, nuclear energy, and combined heat and power, along with his vision for his time at ARPA-E.
… roles as the Chair of the Energy Science and Technology Department and as Chair of the Nuclear Science and Technology Department. He was part of the DOE team that analyzed the Chernobyl accident and managed numerous programs in nuclear safety, international safeguards, and energy-systems development. What brought you to … to them as high impact opportunities. I am currently working on an area that is within the nuclear fuel cycle portfolio, a recent addition to ARPA-E’s authorization, on how to reduce the …
Dr. William Horak currently serves as a Program Director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). He comes to ARPA-E from Brookhaven National Lab, where he worked for 40 years. He served in leadership roles as the Chair of the Energy Science and Technology Department and as Chair of the Nuclear Science and Technology Department.
Associate Director for Technology
… proliferation resistant technologies to support advanced reactor deployment, as well as manage nuclear waste and used nuclear fuel. Before joining ARPA-E, Shafer served on the faculty at Colorado School of Mines as a Professor in the Chemistry Department and Nuclear Science & Engineering Program. Prior to that, she worked at Pacific Northwest National …
Dr. Jenifer Shafer currently serves as the Associate Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Her focus at ARPA-E is developing economic and proliferation resistant technologies to support advanced reactor deployment, as well as manage nuclear waste and used nuclear fuel.
Program Director
… Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). His focus at ARPA-E includes advanced thermal systems, nuclear energy, and combined heat and power. Prior to joining ARPA-E, he worked at Brookhaven … he served as Chair of the Energy Science and Technology Department and as Chair of the Nuclear Science and Technology Department. In these positions, Dr. Horak had a lead role in the … of Soviet-designed facilities. He has also implemented and managed numerous programs in nuclear safety, international safeguards, and energy-system development. Dr. Horak has a B.S. in …
Dr. William Horak currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). His focus at ARPA-E includes advanced thermal systems, nuclear energy, and combined heat and power.
… program , worked to develop ways to store thermal energy generated by renewable solar and nuclear power. HEATS projects focused on three specific technical challenges to do this: … of cost-effectively delivering electricity around the clock and thermal energy storage for nuclear power plants capable of cost-effectively meeting peak demand, Creating synthetic fuel … shining on a solar array. They also worked to find cost-effective and efficient ways to store nuclear energy so that emissions-free nuclear power plants could deliver on-demand peak power as …
It’s July, and it being the middle of Summer means temperatures are rising and Americans across the country are doing their best to manage the heat in different ways.
… able to manage sporadically available sources, such as wind and solar, alongside coal and nuclear, and 2) resilient power flow control hardware – or the energy equivalent of an internet …
WASHINGTON, DC -- Arun Majumdar, Director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), today announced 60 cutting-edge research projects aimed at dramatically improving how the U.S. produces and uses energy.
Zap Energy and the Pursuit of Lower-Cost Fusion Energy
… achieve since working with ARPA-E! [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chevron-investment-nuclear/oil-major-chevron-invests-in-nuclear-fusion-startup-zap-energy-idUSKCN25831E [2] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200812005676/en/Chevron-Invests-in-Nuclear-Fusion-Start-up [3] https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/flow-z-pinch-fusion …
Update: July 2022After raising $27.5 million in their Series B fundraising round in May 2021, Zap Energy recently announced they raised an additional $160 million in follow-on funding. Lowercarbon Capital led their Series C funding round, with additional investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Shell Ventures, DCVC, and Valor Equity Partners. The Zap Energy team also announced a major technical milestone last month. Zap Energy created the first plasma in their FuZE-Q prototype.