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| | Thornton Tomasetti | Pawel Woelke | |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Thornton Tomasetti optimises the design and performance of structures, materials and systems for projects of every size and level of complexity. We undertake research, development and design to engineer practical solutions that manage risks to life across a diverse range of nuclear, defence, power and civilian applications. We analyse and model everything from buildings, infrastructure and industrial facilities to vehicles, biomedical devices and novel engineered materials.
While R&D is critical to our work, in the end we are engineers, We focus on real-world applications that solve specific problems at the appropriate level of detail. We seek to provide cost-effective, pragmatic solutions, based on the best academic know-how. We have extensive experience of bringing innovative solutions to reality and are engaged on the development and delivery of large scale, novel, technically and commercially complex infrastructure projects in the US and Middle East.
We have extensive experience of the nuclear sector within the UK and overseas. We have or are working for all of the major SLC’s within the UK, and have supported a number of technology vendors and providers including Westinghouse, NuGen and EDF. We have also supported a number of advanced reactor technology developers.
In North America, we have a long track record with the Departments of Energy and Defence as well as other government and private sector organisations. For example, our offices in New York, Washington DC and Albuquerque, New Mexico continue to support the US National Laboratory programmes, in addition to working for the Canadian Nuclear industry, where we have supported vendors, including Candu, with the provision of specialist structural services to assess the consequence of impact and shock on the fuel bundles within reactors.
In the UK, we are providing specialist modelling and simulation support to nuclear operators to justify the long term performance and storage of special nuclear materials. This work requires a deep understanding of chemical, fluid and structural mechanics and the interaction between all of these elements. |
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| | SENAI CIMATEC | Rodrigo Cardoso Orestes | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Manufacturing and Technology Integrated Campus SENAI CIMATEC was inaugurated in March of 2002, and it is one of the most advanced centers for education, technology and innovation in the country. Supported by a staff of over 800 members, it hosts a Technical School, a Higher Education School and a Technology Center, all cooperating in a four-building structure of more than 35.000m².
Pushing the limits of its infrastructure, SENAI CIMATEC has launched in 2019 an industrial and technological park located inside Camaçari Industrial Complex. The CIMATEC Park features a technological and industrial complex that combines a Science Park, a Technological Park and a Business Park, integrated in an Eco Park of 4 million m².
Currently offering a number of Undergraduate degrees in engineering, and a series of Graduate programs, including lato sensu (specializations and MBAs) and stricto sensu (master’s and doctoral degrees), SENAI CIMATEC prides itself on delivering highly qualified professionals to the various industrial sectors, supporting innovation and problem-solution, having earned the recognition of Brazilian Ministry of Education as the top engineering school in the North/Northeast Regions of Brazil for the past three years.
With 44 areas of competence and extensive experience in the execution of projects of various magnitudes and complexities, SENAI CIMATEC carries out Research, Development & Innovation (RD&I) in partnerships with national and international companies and institutions already totaling more than R$500 million in project resources and high intellectual property indicators, with more than 134 patents registered.
Having access to funding sources such as FAPESB, Informatics Law and SENAI SESI Innovation Fund, we operate projects of high national and international impact and support companies from different regions, maintaining a network of collaborators that include prominent universities and organizations from all over the world. Some of our partners include MCKinsey&Company, NVIDIA, Atos, HP, Intel, Rockwell Automation, DFKI, Embraer, Shell, Ford, RWTH Aachen University, University of Bremen, Braskem, University of Virginia, MIT, and others. |
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| | North Carolina State University | Robert Bruce Hayes | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| My professional/industrial experience is in nuclear waste management (over a decade at the WIPP site) and radiological emergency response (I was on the FRMAC for 3.5 years followed by being a RAP team scientist for 6 yrs) but now I do health physics teaching and research. Most of my research has been focused on nuclear forensics, nonproliferation and emergency response but I have a different idea I would like to investigate for this proposal opportunity. I would like to propose a short scoping investigation. I would like to investigate the distribution of the commercial values for the terminal fission products in both the PUREX and UREX fuel cycles to see if there is additional economic incentive to recycle spent fuel. If the commercial value of the rare earths or other trace elements from either fully burned bundles or those from a MOX recycle are either not negligible or even possibly substantial, this would provide incentive to deal with the waste by finding alternative uses accordingly. For those fission products which have sufficiently short half lives, many will be stable by the entrance to radiochemical separation, those which are sufficiently worthwhile could be shelved until their activities are comparable to background after which they could legally enter into commercial products such as semiconductors, composite materials and metallic items etc. |
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| | University of Tennessee | William J. Weber | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Dr. Weber is internationally recognized for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of defects and radiation effects in ceramics, for development of radiation tolerant ceramics, and for predictive models of radiation effects in nuclear waste forms and natural minerals over geologic timescales. He is recognized as the foremost authority on radiation effects in nuclear waste forms and for developing validated models and methods for predicting radiation effects in nuclear waste forms over geologic time scales. Dr. Weber was a pioneer in the use of short-lived actinides (238Pu and 244Cm) in fundamental and applied studies of the effects of alpha decay on complex glasses and ceramics, some of which extended over a period of nearly three decades. These studies, along with collaborative research studies with colleagues on radiation damage in natural mineral analogues, provided the most comprehensive understanding, models and database on alpha decay effects in glasses and ceramics. In parallel, he made extensive use of ion beam irradiations to understand the fundamental mechanisms for radiation damage, develop predictive models, and validate accelerated methods to simulate radiation effects from radionuclide decay. As a result, Dr. Weber has developed validated models that can predict radiation effects in waste forms over time scales out to 570 million years based on data obtained using short-lived actinides or ion-beam irradiation techniques.
Dr. Weber has extensive experience on radiation effects due to alpha decay in borosilicate glasses and zircon, pyrochlore, zirconolite and apatite crystalline ceramics doped with Cm-244 or Pu-238. He has one patent, with colleagues, on "Method of Immobilizing Weapons Plutonium to Provide a Durable Disposable Waste Product." Dr. Weber also has experience on the application of gamma radiation and electron beams to study the effects of fission product decay on waste form properties.
Dr. Weber is also the Director of the Ion Beam Materials Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He is very interested in teaming and consulting on methodologies, interpretation of results and modeling the stability of waste forms due to self-radiation from the radionuclide inventory. |
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| | North Carolina State University | Mihai A. Diaconeasa | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My research focus includes theories, applications, and simulation-based techniques in risk sciences such as traditional and dynamic probabilistic risk assessment, reliability analysis, resilient systems design, probabilistic physics of failure modeling, and Bayesian inference. Over the past years, I have developed the methodologies needed to design and implement a suite of computer codes in the probabilistic risk, reliability, and resilience assessment (PRA) fields for nuclear, aerospace, and maritime industries.
Specifically for this FOA, I have been leading PRA studies to risk-inform the potential available used fuel disposal strategies for current LWRs that include various storage, transportation, and disposal options. The probabilistic methods developed and applied to high-level radioactive waste from LWRs will provide the foundation for the safety analysis of advanced reactor disposal systems. |
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| | North Carolina State University | Jason Hou | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My research is mainly focused on the development of accurate and efficient modeling and simulation tools to improve the nuclear fuel cycle, including the economics, safety, proliferation resistance, and sustainability. The areas of research interest include multiphysics reactor simulation, advanced reactors, fuel cycle analysis, uncertainty quantification, machine learning in engineering applications, and nuclear power plant simulator.
I have extensive experience with incorporating the fuel depletion calculation, burnup credit analysis, and reprocessing/recycling calculation into the nuclear fuel analysis for both light water reactors (LWRs) and non-light water advanced reactors (ARs). The latter include liquid metal cooled reactors (LMRs), high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), and liquid fuel molten salt reactors (LF-MSRs). In addition, I have developed and implemented methods to identify and propagate uncertainties througout the fuel cycle analysis in a multiphysics context using the combination of physics-based and data-driven models. Recently I have been conducting studies on the uncertainty quantification on the nuclear data which is found to have large impact on the criticality and safety of ARs, the performance advanced fuel concepts (such as HELEU and HBU fuel), the spent fuel storage, transportation, reprocessing/recycling. |
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| | Stimson Center | Cindy Vestergaard | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| The Stimson Center is a not for profit organization that promotes shared peace and security around the world. Two programs, the Nuclear Safeguards program and the Blockchain in Practice program, are interested in partnering on projects related to nuclear power generation and trade.
Stimson’s Nuclear Safeguards program examines the resiliency of the verification system that underpins the nuclear non-proliferation regime. We work with industry, governments and multilateral organizations to understand the impact of evolving obligations on states and industry across the nuclear fuel cycle, from its front-end (mining, milling, conversion) to the back-end (waste storage and disposal). The team considers how next generation nuclear facilities and technology may impact safeguards and focuses on how solutions can improve the effectiveness of implementation and strengthen effectiveness. The program has a particular focus on examining the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle and the impacts of new techniques and facilities on waste management policy and practice. Website: https://www.stimson.org/program/nuclear-safeguards/
Stimson's Blockchain in Practice program tests the potential for permissioned DLT platforms to create greater efficiencies in safeguards information management, nuclear security, the global trade in dual-use chemicals and export controls. Over the long term the program will guide policy practitioners as they consider and adopt the technology to improve nonproliferation and study its impact on organizations, people,
and security regimes. Notably, our research remains objective, testing and prototyping to determine whether the technology is appropriate or not for a specific operational or policy challenge. Website: https://www.stimson.org/program/blockchain-in-practice/ |
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| | DOE-NNSS | Jamileh Mogin | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) and its related facilities help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by: supporting the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear deterrent; providing nuclear and radiological emergency response capabilities and training; contributing to key nonproliferation and arms control initiatives; executing national-level experiments in support of the National Laboratories; working with national security customers and other federal agencies on important national security activities; and providing long-term environmental stewardship of the NNSS’s Cold War legacy.
Located in a remote, highly secure area of southern Nevada, the NNSS is a premier outdoor, indoor, and underground national laboratory. It is a preferred location for experiments supporting the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)’s nuclear weapons Stockpile Stewardship Programs, national defense programs, and national security research, development and training programs, as well as vital programs of other federal agencies.
NNSS environmental programs, which includes environmental protection, compliance, and monitoring of the air, land, water, plants, animals, and cultural resources at the NNSS; investigation and implementation of appropriate, cost-effective corrective actions to address legacy contamination from historic nuclear weapons testing at the site; and permanent disposal of low-level and mixed low-level radioactive waste generated by environmental clean-up activities at the NNSS and other sites across the DOE complex.
Larger than the state of Rhode Island, the 1,355-square-mile Nevada National Security Site is located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas with satellite offices are maintained in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Santa Barbara and Livermore, California; Long Island, New York; and Washington, D.C.
The scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and technicians at the NNSS and its satellite locations partner with colleagues from across the National Security Enterprise, including the national laboratories and the defense and intelligence communities, to execute a multitude of high-level experimental, research, and training activities in support of national security. |
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| | Sandia National Laboratories | David Sassani | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Sandia National Laboratories leads in developing, integrating, and implementing technically safe, viable, and sustainable solutions to nuclear energy challenges, ranging from power generation to Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) and High Level Waste (HLW) management and disposition. With this expertise and experience, Sandia’s Nuclear Energy Fuel Cycle (NEFC) Program conducts applied R&D,performs technical analyses to inform decision making, implements technical solutions, and analyzes alternative strategies as a trusted agent of DOE and other Federal entities, and.
Within its NEFC Program, Sandia National Laboratories:
• Develops advanced energy conversion systems using supercritical fluids that will decrease the use of cooling water and result in more efficient operations of existing nuclear power plants as well as facilitate the deployment of advanced reactors.
• Provides integrated solutions for the management and disposition of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste across storage, transportation, and disposal programs. Sandia is lead laboratory for the national programs for the safe transport, storage, and disposal of radioactive wastes, and is an international leader in R&D in these areas.
• Develops integrated systems approaches supporting the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors and other fuel cycle technologies that consider the whole nuclear energy fuel cycle and integrate effective integration and incorporation of safety, security, and safeguards -- for both open and closed fuel cycles.
In this last area, Sandia National Laboratories has deep expertise in safeguards, security, and safety assessments of the nuclear fuel cycle. The current movement toward smaller and modular reactors and fuel cycle facilities benefits from more integrated thinking between safeguards, security (including cyber), and safety. Sandia’s NEFC Program leverages several key capabilities including a long history of physical protection modeling and analysis, safeguards system modeling and analysis, cybersecurity, severe accident modeling, and the essential integration of these capabilities to develop more robust and cost-effective plant monitoring systems. |
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| | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Jie Lian | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Dr. Lian is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been working on ceramic materials as nuclear waste forms over the last 20 years with the emphasis of waste form design, microstructure/phase characterization, radiation response, chemical durability and long-term performance evaluation. He has extensive experience and demonstrated records in using state-of-the-art materials synthesis approach to develop advanced materials for waste form applications with minimized release of critical waste elements such as highly volatile halides and Cs and optimized materials performance with greatly improved waste loadings and chemical durability for iodine and chloride immobilization. He also has extensive experience in chemical dissolution by static and semi-dynamic leaching testing to gain fundamental mechanistic understanding of element release from waste form matrix and prediction of the long-term performance. He is currently a thrust leader of the ceramic waste forms for iodine and Cs immobilization under the DOE EFRC Design and Performance of Nuclear Waste Forms and Containers (WastePD).
Dr. Lian also has extensive experience on nuclear fuel design/manufacturing, testing and performance evaluation and he is collaborating extensively with many national labs and industries including Westinghouse on various nuclear fuel design and manufacturing including ATFs and nitride fuels for liquid-lead cooled fast reactors. He is also working on the development of a future taggant in fuel concept as an enabling technology to effectively track and trace spent nuclear fuels and enhance their safeguardability and proliferation resistance.
Dr. Lian is strongly interested in teaming up on the projects on safeguard solutions and waste form solutions. Particularly, he is interested in the developments of advanced waste forms for complex waste streams from chemical reprocessing of UNFs or spent fuels from MSRs or metallic fuel reactors. |
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| | Argonne National Laboratory | Mark Williamson | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Argonne pioneered the application of nuclear fission for energy generation and continues to maintain world leading capabilities being used to develop innovative reactor and fuel cycle systems. Areas of expertise include reactor and fuel cycle physics, used nuclear fuel recycling, sensor development for process monitoring and nuclear material accounting, waste form development and qualification, fuels and materials development, and nuclear waste management. This expertise is applied to the development of innovative nuclear energy technologies and their integration in nuclear power systems employing diverse neutron energy spectra, coolant types and fuel-cycle schemes.
Achieving competitive economics, inherent safety, maximizing resource utilization and practicable nuclear waste management are cornerstones of Argonne’s nuclear fuel cycle development efforts. This experience is highly relevant to sustainable technologies of interest to ARPA-E that will significantly improve the disposal impact of used nuclear fuel and other waste streams from advanced nuclear energy systems.
Argonne researchers carry-out fuel cycle analyses using computational models designed to simulate the start-up, steady state and transient behaviors of advanced fuel cycles. Modeling capabilities are continually adapted and improved to represent novel design features and operating strategies that reduce uncertainty in the prediction of performance and safety characteristics. Specialized codes designed for modeling nuclear fuel recycling provide significant insights used to improve process efficiencies, and to determine waste stream compositions and quantities used to develop durable waste forms. This combination of codes provides unmatched vision into used nuclear fuel management.
Argonne combines world-class experimental expertise in nuclear chemical engineering, radiochemistry and materials development to pursue groundbreaking advances in nuclear fuel recycling and waste management. The Laboratory’s nuclear fuel recycling research targets enhanced understanding of separations processes ranging from fundamental property measurements to pilot-scale demonstrations of innovative commercially viable technologies. Supporting research activities include the development, cost-effective fabrication and testing of high-performance equipment used in recycling; facility design including regulatory review; and improved computational modeling of nuclear waste management systems. |
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| | Savannah River National Laboratory | Alex Cozzi | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Extensive experience in waste form development and testing for radioactive and hazardous waste streams. Contributing author to Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Integrated Waste Management Strategy, Management of Decay Heat from Spent Nuclear Fuel, and the NDAA funded Report of Analysis of Approaches to Supplemental Treatment of Low-Activity Waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Supported the SRS Defense Waste Processing Facility and Saltstone Processing and Disposal Facilities |
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| | Moltex Energy USA LLC | Jose P. Zuniga | |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Moltex seeks to develop and commercialize variants of the Stable Salt Reactor (SSR) and WAste To Stable Salts (WATSS) process.
The SSR is a molten salt reactor that uses fuel dissolved in a molten fluoride (for the thermal spectrum configuration, SSR-U) or chloride salt (for the fast spectrum configuration, SSR-W). The molten salt is contained in static fuel assemblies and operates at atmospheric pressure.
The first version of the SSR that Moltex is developing is the Stable Salt Reactor-Wasteburner (SSR-W). The SSR-W uses fuel produced by the WATSS, which is a new, low cost and simple process that transforms spent conventional reactor fuel into a stable salt fuel. The WATSS process has intrinsic safeguards against proliferation. It produces a mix of transuranic (TRU) molten halide salt, avoiding the need and risk of intensive and complicated procedures to separate high purity plutonium. Reduction in the radioactive life of the majority of that spent fuel from hundreds of thousands of years to just a few hundred years will effectively clean up a large part of the hazardous residue of the first nuclear era. |
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| | PAR Systems, LLC | Rob Owen | |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Radiation tolerant remote handling equipment (60+ years in nuclear market; DOE, Commercial Nuclear, international nuclear research and fuel labs); including waste processing equipment using standard and custom manipulators, manipulator deployment systems (overhead masts, wall mounted, pedestal mounted), hot cell cranes, specialized tooling, heavy lift robotic cranes
Automation of industrial processes (manipulators, custom equipment, specialty processes, vision systems, forming, inspection, laser deployment, friction stir welding, machining, pick and place, packaging, end of arm tooling, remote tool changes, waterjet cutting, milling, cleaning, assembly)
Fuel handling equipment for commercial power, fuel transfer equipment, fuel manufacturing
Waste processing equipment (mechanical cutting, plasma, etc.), size-reduction equipment, D&D equipment |
Website: www.par.com
Email: ROWEN@PAR.COM
Phone: 6512381972
Address: 707 County Road E West, SAINT PAUL, MN, MN, 55126-3128, United States
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| | Stochastic Research Technologies LLC | Urmila Diwekar | |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Stochastic Research Technologies LLC is a software company that provides solutions to chemical, pharmaceutical, and biomedical problems with modeling, optimization, and control of the process. Robust decision-making under uncertainty is of fundamental importance to numerous disciplines and application areas. For many practical issues, decision-making often involves multiple, often conflicting, goals and poses challenging optimization problems. The main focus of our company is to develop systematic methods, algorithms, and approaches for rapid, reliable, and robust multiple objective optimal decision making under uncertainty and to successfully apply these methods to diverse application areas. The company harnesses multidisciplinary expertise in modeling, optimization, uncertainty analysis, manufacturing, process design and control, environmental and ecosystem management, security systems analysis, and operation research.
In the 1980s, it was decided that the high-level waste can be converted to boro-silicate glass, which will be stored in the repository. The glass must meet both processibility and durability restrictions. The processibility conditions ensure that the glass melt has properties such as viscosity, electrical conductivity, and liquidus temperature, which lie within ranges known to be acceptable for the vitrification process during processing. Durability restrictions ensure that the resultant glass meets the quantitative criteria for disposal in a repository. There are also bounds on the composition of the various components in the glass. Recently there are other waste forms suggested like iron phosphate glass, glass-bonded ceramic. All these waste forms involve adding material (frit) to the waste, thereby increasing the number of waste forms (amount of waste). Further, depending on the time for waste storage, the composition of waste changes adding uncertainty to the mixture. Reducing waste storage involves solving a complex mixed integer nonlinear programming optimization problem in the face of uncertainties. There are very few organizations in the world which has algorithmic and software capabilities to solve such problems, and Stochastic is one such company. In this project, we are proposing to create a user-friendly software package. Customers can use this software to determine the amounts of appropriate materials to generate a minimum amount of waste forms of a quality suitable to store in any repository. |
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| | Brigham Young University | Devin Rappleye | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| I have work on sensor and process development for pryochemical processing of actinides for past 10 years. First, at North Carolina State University, I focused on developing safeguards for a used nuclear fuel electrorefiner. Next, at the University of Utah, I developed electrochemical sensors to monitor concentrations in a used nuclear fuel electrorefiner. Following that, I managed the pyrochemical operations of nuclear materials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I am currently setting up a laboratory at Brigham Young University with inert atmosphere gloveboxes, gas analyzers, potentiostats, furnaces (resistive and induction) in order to further research on high-temperature chemistry and processing of molten salts and metals. |
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| | ULC Technologies, LLC | Farah Singer, PhD | |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| ULC is a pioneer in R&D and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions development for the energy, utility and industrial markets. ULC has 20 years of experience in the development, commercialization, and deployment of complex robotics, inspections systems and unmanned aircrafts. Since its inception in 2001, the focus of ULC has been the enhancement of energy and utility operations and the support of infrastructure improvement. We combine cutting-edge design, complex custom software, world-class mechanical equipment, advanced machine learning algorithms, and top talent to create revolutionary technologies, robotics and unmanned systems (UAS) to reduce operations and maintenance costs while increasing efficiency, improving safety and meeting the increasingly complex demands of regulators and energy customers. Our team of engineers, machinists, project managers, field technicians and support staff work daily to find solutions to challenging energy industry problems.
ULC’s areas of expertise and capabilities include: Robotic Systems, Sensors, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Inspection systems, AI & Machine Learning, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Field Testing, Field Deployment, Control systems, Wireless & RF, Sensor integration, Software design, Electromechanical technical assembly, Precision machining, 2d & 3d design, 3d modeling & analysis, Drive systems, Advanced pneumatics, CNC machining, Additive Manufacturing (3D printing), System Level Analysis, Flow Analysis, Motion Simulation, Condition modeling, Assembly Simulation, and Material Simulation. ULC’s facilities house engineering offices that allow for intensive research and development projects, an advanced machine shop to create customized parts and prototypes for robotic technology, and reconfigurable space to accommodate assembly and testing. |
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| | Atkins Nuclear Secured | Anthony Chang | |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| SNC-Lavalin is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure. SNC-Lavalin acquired the Commercial Division of Canada’s Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in 2011; becoming the OEM for 25 operating units worldwide and is engaged with global new build activities. In July 2017, SNC-Lavalin acquired WS Atkins plc. to enter the top 3 in our industry globally. We work to solidify SNC-Lavalin’s position as one of the largest fully integrated professional services firms in the world offering our clients a wider breadth of expertise, capabilities, and services. The offeror, Atkins, is a U.S.-owned and Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI)-mitigated subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc., a 37,000-employee engineering, procurement, construction, nuclear facilities management, and environmental services firm with $5.5 billion in annual revenue.
Atkins is a renowned project management and engineering services firm established in 1938. Atkins provides a full range of engineering, procurement, and construction services to U.S. federal customers, including the Department of Energy (DOE) and its prime contractors. Atkins provides cradle-to-grave radioactive waste management services. We have successfully integrated efforts among the various Atkins and SNC-Lavalin subsidiaries to execute high-consequence nuclear designs. |
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| | University of Utah | Michael F. Simpson | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My career has been largely focused on application of molten salts for nuclear energy systems and nuclear waste processing.The first 17 years of my career was at Argonne and Idaho National Laboratory. The last 8 have been as a faculty member at the University of Utah. I have published research on electrorefiner salt waste processing, U electrorefining, electrolytic reduction of UO2, molten salt electrochemistry, safeguards approaches for molten salt processing systems, and sensors for molten salts. In recent years, I have developed a new process for dechlorinated chloride salt waste for immobilization in zeolites. My lab at the University of Utah is equipped with glove boxes, furnaces, and various instrumentation for supporting molten salt and waste form research. |
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| | University of Florida | Nathalie A. Wall | |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| N.A. Wall has over 25 years of experience in the field of environmental radiochemistry, including nuclear waste management. Over her career, she has developed expertise in the chemistry of actinides, lanthanides, and fission products. She received a doctorate in radio- and nuclear- chemistry from the University of Paris (France), while working at the French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA) in the Department for Nuclear Waste Management, where she studied actinide chemistry in granitic repository systems. During a post-doctoral fellowship at Florida State University and subsequent appointment at Sandia National Laboratories, she participated to the 1996 Compliance Certification Application, first (2004) and second (2009) Compliance Recertification Applications of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Wall developed a strong research program in the Chemistry department of Washington State University (WSU), where she was a faculty member from 2006 to 2019; she became a faculty member of the UF Department of Materials Science and Engineering (home of the UF Nuclear Engineering Program) in June 2019, where she has built new radiochemistry capabilities.
N. Wall’s 1,635 sqft radiochemistry laboratory at UF includes traditional infrastructure (benches, fume hoods, distilled water) and hosts a variety of instruments: potentiometry auto-titrator; UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer coupled with a thermostated cell holder, and diffuse reflectance accessories; fluorometer; inert atmosphere gloveboxes, coupled with oxygen purifier and moisture purifier. N. Wall has the full array of radioactivity counting equipment, including liquid scintillation counter; automated gamma counter; intrinsic germanium gamma spectrometer; and alpha spectroscopy detectors. The lab also includes a set-up for the study of molten salt chemical behavior (furnace, voltameter, portable spectrophotometer and light source, fiber optic cables).
The UF Nuclear Engineering program hosts a 100 kW Argonaut-type nuclear and multiple gamma irradiation facilities.
The UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s Research Service Centers support and enhance the research, education, and public service missions of the University of Florida by providing access to characterization and process instrumentation. |
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