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Framatome
Framatome aims to reduce advanced reactor costs by leveraging advanced diagnostics methods to demonstrate feasible fault detection with an optimized set of sensors; develop reliable automatic fault detection algorithms on wide range of systems; and minimize the resources required to perform fault detection. Framatome will develop two novel digital twins for use with Metroscope, a software package that connects digital twins and their associated fault libraries and monitors them with an algorithm to detect problems early on.
… 1822895 … Although nuclear power is one pathway to achieving a zero-carbon grid, nuclear power plants are comparatively cost-intensive in some markets. Many industries are … O&M in their processes. O&M is approximately 80% of a reactor’s total generating cost. The nuclear energy industry has not fully explored these innovations, necessitating new designs of …
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT)
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) will develop a high-temperature, chemically resistant, diamond-based microfluidic alpha spectrometer (DiMAS) that will enable accurate online and/or at-line (the sample is removed and analyzed near the production process) measurement of alpha-emitting isotopes in LF-MSR fuel. The team will develop an optimal spectrometer design by using experimental and computational methods to evaluate the sensor architecture, packaging, and performance.
… 2418576 … Advanced nuclear reactor power plants have the potential to play a critical role in decarbonizing the … goals. It could also be a key enabler for safe, secure, and efficient recycling of used nuclear fuel. … As the market grows for diamond-related technologies (e.g., electrochemistry, … … Dr. Jenifer Shafer … elukosi@utk.edu … TN … ACTIVE … A DiMAS design will enable heightened nuclear security from more accurate, real-time measurements. … http://utk.edu … Microfluidic …
University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)
The University of Wisconsin’s integrated toolset seeks to expedite molten salt materials development for technology by two orders of magnitude, compared with current methods. The team will combine advances in additive manufacturing, in-place testing for materials/salt compatibility, new molten salt-resistant mini-electrode designs, and machine learning algorithms to optimize and accelerate identification of molten salt corrosion-resistant materials. Those materials can be used in energy applications including molten salt nuclear reactors, concentrated solar plants, and thermal storage.
… materials are critical in a variety of next-generation power systems, such as next-generation nuclear and concentrated solar. Historically, though, time-consuming manual and ad-hoc … This capability would enable better-performing, lower-cost, and/or more durable molten salt nuclear reactors, concentrating solar power plants, and thermal storage systems and consequently … materials. Those materials can be used in energy applications including molten salt nuclear reactors, concentrated solar plants, and thermal storage. … 12/13/2017 … Madison … Prof. …
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
EPRI will research an integrated fuel cycle enterprise, intended to address the coupled challenges of nuclear fuel life-cycle management and AR fuel supply. Input LWR fuel source options and process step options for recycling that produces fuel for ARs such as a molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) will be characterized and evaluated. EPRI will use this information to develop recycling optimization tool to evaluate the many viable process options for their compatibility and efficiency.
… 2796546 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new … research an integrated fuel cycle enterprise, intended to address the coupled challenges of nuclear fuel life-cycle management and AR fuel supply. Input LWR fuel source options and process …
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) will research an electrochemical oxide reduction (OR) process that meets CURIE’s cost and waste metrics for a pyroprocessing facility. Electrochemical OR is a single-step process that converts used oxide fuels to metal that can be electrorefined to produce uranium/transuranic (U/TRU) alloys suitable for fabrication into advanced reactor fuels. However, current process inefficiencies result in non-uniform and incomplete conversion to metal, long process times, and large waste volumes.
… 4900000 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new …
Mainstream Engineering
Mainstream Engineering will research a series of vacuum swing separation unit operations to separate and capture volatile radionuclides from the off-gassing of UNF aqueous reprocessing facility operations. Off-gas management and disposal accounts for roughly 13% of aqueous reprocessing systems’ capital costs and at least 10% of their operating costs for product/waste containers and utilities.
… 1580526 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new …
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) will develop, produce, and test rotating packed bed contactors designed from the ground up for UNF reprocessing. The proposed PAcked Centrifugal Equipment for Radiochemical separations, PACERs, applies a centrifugal field to increase the efficiency of separations in packed beds and decrease the required packing volumes by more than 50% compared with state-of-the-art columns.
… 1520000 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new …
Deep Isolation
Deep Isolation will test a range of canister designs in boreholes at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center in Texas and assess US-based supplier capabilities in the hopes of identifying a universal canister design. Advancing a universal canister system from a conceptual development stage to a licensing stage would require full-scale test data, and help enable safe, scalable, and cost-effective disposal of the current stored used nuclear fuel as well as fuels from advanced nuclear reactors in development.
… data, and help enable safe, scalable, and cost-effective disposal of the current stored used nuclear fuel as well as fuels from advanced nuclear reactors in development. … … Berkeley … Ethan Bates … Deep Isolation … Deep Isolation … …
University of Utah
The University of Utah will research a pyrochemical process for efficiently converting UNF to a uranium/transuranic (U/TRU) product suitable for sodium-cooled fast reactors or molten-salt fueled reactors. This process is based on two key separations steps that can occur in a single reaction vessel: dissolution of oxide UNF in molten lithium chloride (LiCl)-potassium chloride (KCl) salt and electrochemical recovery of U/TRU metal on a cathode.
… 1454068 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new …
Curio Solutions
CurioTM will research the advanced head-end processing and fluorination steps of its UNF recycling process, NuCycleTM, at the laboratory scale to derisk the NuCycle process. NuCycle is a modular, integrated, compact, and proliferation-hardened process designed to avoid production of pure plutonium (Pu) streams and dramatically reduce waste volumes compared with existing processes. NuCycle significantly reduces facility footprints, leverages well-understood chemical processes, and accommodates a variety of fuel types, including molten salts and nitride fuels.
… 5000000 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new …
General Electric (GE) Global Research
General Electric (GE) Global Research, in partnership with Lumitron Technologies, Orano, and Sandia National Laboratory, will research an innovative safeguards solution, Monochromatic Assays Yielding Enhanced Reliability (MAYER), for aqueous reprocessing.
… 6449997 … The U.S. has accumulated approximately 86,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel (UNF) from light-water reactors (LWRs), a value that increases by approximately … AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh. … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, further ensuring the commercial viability of innovative new …
Energetics Technology Center
Energetics Technology Center will build upon past successes with co-deposition experiments using palladium, lithium, and heavy water together to create an environment in which LENR can occur. These electrolysis experiments decrease the distance from the cathode (location of LENR) to an electronic detector capable of detecting nuclear reaction products to give these experiments the best chance at reliably detecting nuclear reactions, if they are present.
… distance from the cathode (location of LENR) to an electronic detector capable of detecting nuclear reaction products to give these experiments the best chance at reliably detecting nuclear reactions, if they are present. … … Indian Head … Ken Conley … Energetics Technology …