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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 …
Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy (CURIE)
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 2,000 tons per year. This UNF is destined for permanent disposal even though more than 90% of its energy remains. Reprocessing UNF to recover reusable actinides and recycling them into new fuel for advanced reactors (ARs) would improve fuel utilization and drastically reduce the volume of waste requiring permanent disposal. CURIE seeks to develop innovative separations technologies, material accountancy, and online monitoring technologies, as well as designs for a reprocessing facility that will enable group recovery of actinides for AR feedstocks, incorporate in situ process monitoring, minimize waste volumes, enable a 1¢/kilowatt-hour (kWh) fuel cost for AR fuels, and maintain disposal costs in the range of 0.1¢/kWh.
… 36531064 … Complement ARPA-E’s existing nuclear energy research portfolio, such as the MEITNER, GEMINA, and ONWARDS programs in AR R&D, … in sensor and data fusion technologies that enable accurate and timely accounting of nuclear materials; Facility design and systems analysis: technoeconomic and systems analyses of … … ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov … 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 …
Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy
Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy (BETHE) supports the development of timely, commercially viable fusion energy. Building on recent progress in fusion research and synergies with the growing private fusion industry, this program aims to deliver a larger number of higher maturity, lower cost fusion options via three research categories: (1) Concept Development to advance the performance of inherently lower cost but less mature fusion concepts; (2) Component Technology Development that could significantly reduce the capital cost of higher cost, more mature fusion concepts; and (3) Capability Teams to improve/adapt and apply existing capabilities (e.g., theory/modeling, machine learning, or engineering design/fabrication) to accelerate the development of multiple concepts. BETHE’s technology-to-market component aims to build and smooth the path to fusion commercialization to include public, private, and philanthropic partnerships.
… clean, and abundant. Based on numerous studies examining the cost challenges facing advanced nuclear energy—which shares unit size, capital cost, and power-generation attributes with …
102 Projects Across America will Receive Seed Funding to Launch New Ideas to Market That Will Create Jobs
… of safer and more sustainable battery products in the United States. Innovation in nuclear physics to lower energy costs. The nation’s nuclear physics leadership depends on innovation and improvements for safety and performance. … edge and ultimately lower energy costs with increased safety. Next-generation efficient nuclear reactors. In a collaborative project between HiFunda LLC in Salt Lake City, Idaho …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $110 million for diverse small businesses working on scientific, clean energy, and climate solutions for the American people. The 102 projects in 24 states are pursuing technological solutions in various areas, including advanced manufacturing of wind turbines and batteries, new instruments for atmospheric measurement, and particle accelerator technologies that can power next-generation scientific discoveries.
… ARPA-E held a workshop on " Safe and Secure Megawatt-Size Nuclear Power" on March 16-17, 2016 in the Washington, D.C. area. This workshop brought together experts in nuclear reactor design, nuclear science, materials science, controls, advanced sensors and monitors, manufacturing, risk …
ARPA-E held a workshop on "Safe and Secure Megawatt-Size Nuclear Power" on March 16-17, 2016 in the Washington, D.C. area. This workshop will bring together experts in nuclear reactor design, nuclear science, materials science, controls, advanced sensors and monitors, manufacturing, risk analysis, non-proliferation/safeguards, as well as potential end users, vendors, investors, and other relevant stakeholders.
… ARPA-E convened people from diverse industries to discuss technologies for enabling advanced nuclear reactors to achieve operating cost profiles approximating those of natural gas combined … cycle plants. This entails reducing operating costs per megawatt of electricity (MWe) at nuclear power plants by more than one order of magnitude. Attaining this vision requires optimal operations of nuclear reactors, a radical departure from traditional operations. Attacking this problem …
ARPA-E convened people from diverse industries to discuss technologies for enabling advanced nuclear reactors to achieve operating cost profiles approximating those of natural gas combined cycle plants.
… ARPA-E hosted a workshop on Nuclear Heat & Power for Industrial Process Applications on May 30-June 1, 2023 in Houston, TX. … and opportunities for decarbonizing industrial processes by coupling these processes with nuclear heat and power. The workshop included technical and market focused presentations, … opportunities with the overarching goal of identifying disruptive R&D pathways to integrate nuclear heat and power with industrial processes. Participants had the opportunity to discuss …
ARPA-E hosted a workshop on Nuclear Heat & Power for Industrial Process Applications on May 30-June 1, 2023 in Houston, TX.
… Currently, the United States has over 90,000 MT of spent nuclear fuel that is primarily stored at the waste generation sites. One of ARPA-E’s goals is to … technologies that improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. Transmutation of this spent nuclear fuel to reduce the radiotoxicity, waste heat, storage volume, and storage time is an …
ARPA-E held a workshop on Transmutation of Used Nuclear Fuel from August 1-2, 2023, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC. Workshop presentations covered the current state of the art in transmutation and implementation strategies for all transmutation-enabling technologies.
Accelerating Low-Cost Plasma Heating and Assembly
Fusion energy holds the promise of cheap, clean power production, but up to now scientists have been unable to successfully harness fusion as a power source due to complex scientific and technological challenges and the high cost of research. ARPA-E’s ALPHA program seeks to create and demonstrate tools to aid in the development of new, lower-cost pathways to fusion power and to enable more rapid progress in fusion research and development.
… fusion reaction that consistently produces more energy than it consumes. Fusion is a nuclear reaction where two small atoms like hydrogen combine to form a larger atom and produce an …
… area. For this workshop, we envisioned bringing together a community of experts in advanced nuclear fuel cycles, UNF recycling and reprocessing, nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation, repositories, and waste forms. We also reached out to … the Art of Aqueous Processing Terry Todd (INL) 2:10p – 2:35p Pyrochemical Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel Mark Williamson (ANL) 2:35p – 3:00p Geologic Disposal of High Activity …
The purpose of this workshop was for the scientific, engineering, and industry communities to provide input to ARPA-E in advance of a potential funding opportunity in this area. For this workshop, we envisioned bringing together a community of experts in advanced nuclear fuel cycles, UNF recycling and reprocessing, nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation, repositories, and waste forms. We also reached out to experts in adjacent fields of expertise such as chemical and electrochemical processing, advanced materials, industrial engineering, etc.
… 2021 The objective of this workshop was to explore compelling R&D opportunities in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) [1], in support of developing metrics for a potential ARPA-E R&D program … Fusion Gas Cycling Experiments Dr. Theresa Benyo, NASA Glenn Research Center Condensed Matter Nuclear Reactions in Nano-Materials Mr. Larry Forsley, NASA, Global Energy Corporation … – Low Count Rate Particle Measurements Dr. Robert Ledoux, Program Director, ARPA-E Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions: An Electrochemical Engineering Perspective Mr. Bertrand Neyhouse, MIT …
The objective of this workshop was to explore compelling R&D opportunities in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) in support of developing metrics for a potential ARPA-E R&D program in LENR.
… This report summarizes a modeling effort to estimate the highest allowable CapEx for advanced nuclear plants in future power market environments to still achieve a market rate of return for … … 2020-07-14 … LucidCatalyst … The Cost and Performance Requirements for "Flexible" Advanced Nuclear Power Plants in Future U.S. Power Markets …
This report summarizes a modeling effort to estimate the highest allowable CapEx for advanced nuclear plants in future power market environments to still achieve a market rate of return for their owners.
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Raytheon Technologies Research Center (RTRC) aims to design and validate the manufacturability and mechanical properties of a new hot section turbine alloy. To achieve higher efficiency turbine operation, RTRC will use additive manufacturing (AM) to produce test coupons (specimens) and potentially a representative turbine blade using a high entropy alloy (HEA) enhanced with oxide dispersion strengthening (ODS) particles.
… … Dr. Philseok Kim … john.sharon@rtx.com … CT … ALUMNI … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …
General Electric (GE) Global Research
GE Research has proposed transformational material solutions to potentially enable a gas turbine blade alloy-coating system capable of operating at a turbine inlet temperature of 1800 °C for more than 30,000 hours.
… … Dr. Philseok Kim … Michael.Worku@ge.com … NY … ACTIVE … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …
… or any agency thereof or its contractors or subcontractors. … 2016-01-01 … iRunway … Nuclear Fusion: Global IP Landscape …
During the ALPHA program, ARPA-E commissioned a report on the fusion intellectual-property (IP) landscape. Some key takeaways from the report are:
Magnetic and inertial confinement dominate existing IP landscape
Magneto-inertial or other approaches are a ripe area for creating new IP
Over 50% of fusion IP is expired, primarily due to non-payment of fees
Be judicious in timing of filing, given the 20-year protection time frame.