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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Jason Harp | Senior Research Staff and Group Lead |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Nuclear Fuel post-irradiation examination (including work on Minor Actinide bearing fuel for fast reactors), irradiation testing, developing data for fuel qualification. |
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| | University of Florida | Yong Yang | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dr. Yang’s research group focuses on nuclear reactor materials, including nuclear fuels and structural materials. His expertise spans advanced materials fabrication, microstructural characterization, mechanical testing, and corrosion testing. His research interests include radiation damage, corrosion, fuel performance (with an emphasis on TRISO fuel kernel evolution and fuel–cladding chemical interactions), aging and safety management of the current reactor fleet, and the development of materials for advanced nuclear fission and fusion reactors.
Over the past several years, his team has made significant contributions to understanding the physical and chemical states of fission products in irradiated TRISO fuel kernels. He has also been significantly involved in the Deep Burn project, which aims to utilize transuranic elements in TRISO fuel. Dr. Yang serves as the technical point of contact for the University of Florida NSUF partner facility, which supports microstructural studies of irradiated fuel and structural materials. |
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| | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Wei Ji | Professor and Nuclear Reactor Director |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| The Nuclear Computing and Multi-Physics (NuCoMP) Research Group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) specializes in advanced computational modeling and multi-physics simulation for nuclear engineering, led by Prof. Wei Ji. Our team integrates reactor physics, fuel performance modeling, and high-performance computing to enable predictive, system-level analysis of complex nuclear fuels and reactors.
We bring unique capabilities in designing, evaluating, and optimizing transuranic (TRU) fuels, including irradiation behavior, thermal-mechanical response, neutronics, and uncertainty-informed performance assessment. We have extensive experience analyzing existing and advanced reactor designs, including light water reactors (LWRs), gas-cooled reactors (GCRs), and molten salt reactors (MSRs). This breadth allows us to evaluate TRU fuel performance across diverse reactor systems, enabling strategic assessment of fuel applicability, safety, and deployment pathways.
NuCoMP is a proven collaborator, working seamlessly with national laboratories, industry, and academic partners to translate computational insights into practical, deployable nuclear fuel solutions. Our infrastructure includes advanced multi-physics frameworks and high-performance computing resources, enabling rapid integration with fabrication, testing, and regulatory evaluation efforts.
Teaming with RPI gives partners access to world-class nuclear modeling expertise, predictive fuel design capabilities, and cross-disciplinary collaboration experience. We are well-positioned to advance ARPA-E’s objectives: establishing a domestic TRU fuel supply chain, achieving low levelized fuel costs, and enabling regulatory qualification within seven years. By partnering with us, teams gain a computationally-driven, high-impact approach to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced reactor fuels. |
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| | Baseline Fission Inc | Chandrashekhar Sonwane | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Nuclear power
Thermal and Electrical Energy storage
Power Conversion Cycles |
| CA |
| | Portland State University | ilke celik | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| I can help the leading team with techno-economic analyses.
My research is techno-economic and life cycle environmental impacts of renewable systems, specifically on advanced photovoltaics and integrated battery systems. |
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| | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Jie Lian | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Lian has extensive expertise in nuclear fuel design, microstructure engineering, materials characterization, and performance evaluation. His research spans a broad spectrum of nuclear fuel systems, including conventional UO₂ and doped oxide fuels, UB₂, UN, U₃Si₂, and metallic U-10Zr fuels. A major focus of his work is the development of composite fuel concepts aimed at improving thermomechanical performance, oxidation and corrosion resistance, and overall accident tolerance.
Lian is highly experienced in advanced fuel manufacturing technologies, particularly spark plasma sintering (SPS), which he has used to design and fabricate advanced nuclear fuels with tailored microstructures and properties. In collaboration with the INL MARMOT team, he designed oxide fuels with precisely controlled microstructure and chemistry for separate-effects experiments to validate MARMOT thermal transport models. He has led and contributed to multiple Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) projects with INL scientists focused on the design, fabrication, and evaluation of novel fuel forms manufactured using SPS as an advanced fuel fabrication pathway and provide critical experimental data to validate the fuel performance modeling. Lian has also worked closely with Westinghouse Electric Company to develop high-density UN and U₃Si₂ fuels with enhanced oxidation and corrosion resistance, targeting improved accident tolerance for light water reactors.
In parallel, he has established unique experimental capabilities for high-temperature mechanical testing and transient testing of nuclear fuels, including high-burnup fuels, to investigate fuel fracture and fragmentation behavior under simulated loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) and reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) conditions. These efforts directly support fuel performance assessment, qualification, and licensing of advanced and high-burnup fuel systems.
He is interested in leading or collaborating on projects focused on transuranic (TRU) fuel demonstration, contributing his expertise in fuel fabrication, properties characterization, and performance evaluation. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Laoratory | Flavio Chuahy | Senior Scientist and Group Leader |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Nuclear fuel fabrication modeling, multiphase multiphysics modeling, component optimization, system modeling, AI |
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| | Argonne National Laboratory | Abdellatif Yacout | Department Manager |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| The fuel development and qualification department at Argonne’s chemical and fuel cycle technologies division has a team of scientists and engineers specialized in nuclear fuel modeling and simulation, assessment, and characterization, accelerated fuels and materials testing, and advanced materials synthesis. The team is involved in development and qualification of new nuclear fuels and materials that can handle the extreme environments inside advanced reactors.
In particular, the team has extensive experience in behavior modeling, testing and fabrication of metallic fuels for liquid metal cooled fast reactors and research reactors. including the development, qualification, and hosting of DOE-supported irradiation and out-of-pile metal fuel databases. To help qualify fuel, we model and simulate the behavior of materials and fuel systems at different scales, conduct experiments outside of nuclear environment, characterize advanced materials, and analyze data from fuels and materials irradiated in reactors. We perform accelerated radiation damage in nuclear fuels and materials to study their behavior and support their qualifications, using high-energy heavy-ion beams at our dedicated materials irradiation station (AMIS) at Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) and at the IVEM. The team developed innovative approaches to mitigate interfacial degradation phenomena in nuclear material such as cladding corrosion and fuel cladding chemical interactions in metal fuels. Those innovations utilize state of the art thin film deposition techniques such as atomic layer deposition (ALD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD).
Different dedicated capabilities that can handle radioactive materials are available at our characterization, synthesis, and fabrication labs. Those include FIB/SEM/TEM, micro-mechanical testing, femtosecond laser processing, direct nano/micro scale thermal conductivity measurements, arc melters for alloys fabrication, and ALD/PVD systems for coating actinide and structural materials.
Our team delivers innovations in nuclear fuels and materials through research and development activities supported by different programs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The team collaborates with industry partners to solve key problems relevant to performance in reactors and essential to fuels and materials qualification and licensing.
More information at the department website https://www.anl.gov/cfc/fuel-development-qualification |
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| | Citrine Informatics - External Research Dept. | Kyle Miller | Research Scientist |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| ----- Overall Goal -----
Develop an integrated ML-simulation-experiment workflow in which ML both guides and learns from experiments/simulations to design and optimize reactor fuels
----- Recent Relevant Experience -----
- ARPA-E ONWARDS: Nuclear waste form development
- ARPA-E CHADWICK: Nuclear fusion alloy development
----- Our Capabilities -----
- Machine learning models for guided experiment
- Uncertainty quantification
- Database construction
- Physics-based modeling
- Integration of data-driven methods with experimental and computational workflows
----- Desired Partner Capabilities -----
- Domain science expertise
- Theoretical modeling
- Experimental capabilities
----- About -----
Citrine Informatics is the award-winning creator of the Citrine Platform for data-driven materials and chemicals development. Citrine won the 2017 World Materials Forum Start-up Challenge, the 2018 AI Breakthrough award as the "Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing", and 2020 Cleantech 100 honors. Citrine has unparalleled experience providing data management infrastructure and artificial intelligence specifically tailored to materials science and chemistry. Citrine has deployed its software with many of the world's leading materials and chemical companies, U.S. national labs, and academic and consortia partners.
Kyle Miller has expertise in ML-accelerated materials design, uncertainty quantification, database construction, and electronic structure theory. He has conducted research across multiple ARPA-E and DARPA programs, developing ML models for the design and optimization of ferroelectrics, nuclear waste forms, fusion alloys, and additive manufacturing processes. |
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| | SIA Partners | Matthew Sigmund | Director |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| In the complex federal grants environment, an experienced grants management partner able to support the full lifecycle of grants management – from early concept development through closeout – enables your team to focus on the success of your product or technology. Our team of grants management experts collaborates with organizations seeking the following core capabilities:
Capability 1: Pre-Award Support
Organizations often need support translating ideas into clear, persuasive proposals in alignment with government requirements. We assist with refining project concepts, developing compelling concept papers, and preparing competitive full applications that align with funder priorities. This support is strengthened by integrated budgeting expertise and indirect cost rate strategy, ensuring proposals are both programmatically strong and financially sound.
Capability 2: Post-Award Administration
Receipt of an award marks the beginning of a long-term partnership with the federal government. Our team supports organizations in meeting grant terms and conditions through effective post-award administration. This includes assistance with project management and reporting, accounting, procurement, property management, cybersecurity considerations, and other reporting requirements, particularly for large or complex grant portfolios.
We also design reporting frameworks that combine quantitative performance measures with qualitative insights, helping organizations meet compliance requirements while clearly communicating program progress and impacts to awarding agencies and stakeholders.
Capability 3: Technology Enablement
Effective grants management increasingly depends on the right technology. We help organizations evaluate, select, and implement process and systems that align with their operational needs. From accounting and financial reporting to subrecipient monitoring, we focus on scalable, efficient solutions tailored to each organization’s needs. |
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| | Stony Brook University | David Sprouster | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Background in radiation effects and materials development for advanced nuclear technologies. Interest in the design, fabrication and effects testing of advanced nuclear materials (ceramics, metals and composites), and technology readiness level maturation. Capabilities in fabrication, physical property characterization (microstructural, thermophysical, mechanical).
The Engineered Microstructures and Radiation Effects Laboratory (EMREL) at SBU, houses several specific fabrication, characterization, and testing capabilities, both radiological and non-radiological. a laboratory dedicated to powder processing hazardous and radiological materials, with a Retsch High Energy Planetary Ball Mill, EMAX Water-Cooled High-Energy Mill, Flaktec mixer, sieves, and purifiers. Graphite processing specific equipment includes baking furnace (Across International) graphitization furnace (Centorr), pulverizer (ASC Laboratory), sieves, crushing and cutting tools, stand-mount electric mixer with heating mantle (Cole-Palmer). Complimenting this equipment is a suite of controlled atmosphere glove boxes, fume hoods, and multiple high temperature furnaces, HIP and SinterLand LABOX-3010KF direct current sintering (DCS) instrument.
EMREL houses a Bruker D8 Advance X-ray Diffractometer equipped with a Copper and/or Molybdenum X-ray source for bulk and thin film XRD measurements, and complementary microscopy facilities (TEM, SEM, FIB) at SBU including a Phenom XL G2 SEM, which when combined with the Zeiss 3D x-ray microscope in EMREL. Thermophysical property measurement equipment includes Netzsch STA-449 F3 Thermal Analyzer, Netszch LFA-457 Laser Flash Thermal Diffusivity instrument, and a Netzsch DIL 402 Expedis Dilatometer. Electrical resistivity measurement equipment includes multiple Keithley instruments (current and voltage supply, electrometers and source meters). A suite of mechanical testing equipment is also maintained within EMREL, including: five high-temperature creep frames; high, and low temperature Shimadzu tensile testing frames, a Hysitron/Bruker TI 980 Triboindenter with nanoDMA III, MultiRange NanoProbe and xSol High Temperature Stage with multiple load heads housed within a glove box (for air sensitive materials and high temperature nanoindentation creep experiments), a Grindosnic MK7 non-destructive Impulse Excitation Technique instrument, and a Mitutoyo HM-220B Digital Microhardness Tester (Automated Vickers and Knoop). |
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| | SHINE Technologies, LLC | Ross Radel, PhD, PE | Chief Technology Officer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| SHINE Technologies, LLC is a private nuclear technology company headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin, focused on advancing and commercializing fusion- and radiochemistry-based applications. Founded in 2010, the company originated from earlier work at Phoenix Nuclear Labs and was built on the idea that practical, revenue generating fusion applications could pave the way toward commercially viable fusion power. SHINE’s phased approach aims to leverage near term uses of fusion—such as industrial neutron generation and medical isotope production—to iteratively improve its technology while reinvesting earnings toward long term fusion energy development.
The company has become a leader in applying fusion neutron sources for industrial imaging, radiation-effects testing, and materials research, as well as for producing critical medical isotopes like molybdenum 99 and lutetium 177, which are essential for diagnosing and treating cancer. SHINE has also expanded into nuclear waste recycling, using fusion-driven transmutation to reclaim valuable elements and reduce waste longevity. This multidimensional strategy positions SHINE not only as an innovator in fusion but also as a key contributor to the healthcare, defense, energy, and environmental sectors.
SHINE is interested in partnering on projects related to the development of nuclear fuel products derived from the recycling of used nuclear fuel (UNF). SHINE’s selected CoDCon aqueous recycling process lends itself to the production of mixed oxide (MOX) and Pu-bearing TRISO fuel in particular. SHINE has developed significant actinide radiochemistry expertise and operates a well-equipped chemical separations laboratory. |
| WI |
| | Oklo | Ryan Brito | Fuel Fabrication Engineer |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Oklo Inc. (Oklo) is an advanced nuclear technology company established in 2013 that designs and operates small, prefabricated nuclear reactors intended to deliver reliable, low-cost, clean energy 24/7. Oklo’s Aurora powerhouse is powered by a pool-type sodium fast reactor that uses high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) or recycled fuels as its fuel source. Part of our scalable strategy is to develop fuel recycling technologies to provide cost-competitive fuel to our advanced reactors. In collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, Oklo has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of the key stages of the fuel recycling process with support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems program. Under the ARPA-E Converting Used Nuclear Fuel Radioisotopes into Energy program, Oklo also identified a suitable fuel vector from current light water reactor (LWR) used oxide fuel. Oklo’s recycled fuel will supplement domestic HALEU production, the primary source of fuel for advanced reactors. Additionally, recycled fuel enables Oklo to tap into the 90% of energy that remains in used LWR fuel, of which the U.S. has a growing stockpile. Oklo has broad interest in teaming with partners investigating advanced fuel concepts, remote fabrication, and fuel properties and performance. |
Website: oklo.com
Email: rbrito@oklo.com
Phone: 9795712963
Address: 3190 Coronado Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
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| | Savannah River National Laboratory | Bill Bates | Deputy Associate Laboratory Director |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Team of experts at SRNL involved in all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle that are and can be adapted to TRU Fuels. Expertise includes feedstock knowledge, processing technologies, backend management, waste treatment, shipping and storage packaging technologies, and nonproliferation related technologies. Laboratory capabilities include hoods, radiological gloveboxes, shielded cells, access to varieties of nuclear materials including those likely in TRU fuels. |
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| | Savannah River National Laboratory | Binod Rai | Senior Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| nuclear fuel materials, nuclear reactor structural materials, synthesis and materials characterization |
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| | Exodys Energy Inc | Timothy A. Frazier | Senior Vice President, Government Programs |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Exodys Energy, founded in 2022, is commercializing its UPCYCLE nuclear fuel recycling system to reprocess U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) to fuel the existing LWR fleet with re-enriched Reprocessed Uranium and the advanced reactor fleet with U+TRU-based fuels. The team possesses decades of experience in nuclear power and industrial-scale reprocessing facility operations. The company previously benefited from DOE-NE support via the GAIN voucher program. |
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| | Framatome, Inc | Jeffrey Reed | Manager of R&D Partnerships |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Framatome has decades of experience in fuel design, qualification and manufacturing, recently celebrating the 50th anniversary at our Richland, WA, nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. Framatome’s Richland facility currently fabricates fuel that can support the entire US LWR fleet. This broad experience base demonstrates the diversity and breadth of manufacturing experience in conjunction with continual innovation.
Framatome’s plant engineering group has designed and built most of the fuel manufacturing processes from chemical conversion of UF6 to UO2 (ADU and dry conversion), to powder processing, ceramic pelletizing, fuel rod fabrication, and fuel assembly fabrication. These manufacturing project successes demonstrate Framatome’s continued investment in its Richland operation and is acknowledgement of its technology leadership in nuclear fuel fabrication. Framatome’s technology is also licensed to several other fuel fabricators around the world.
Framatome involves the voice of the customer in setting focused research and product development goals. This successful product development and commercialization strategy has recently been demonstrated with the delivery of two new fuel designs to the market with the participation of multiple utility partners cooperating in a technical advisory group (TAG). Firstly, the advanced GAIA 17x17 PWR fuel assembly has now been delivered in batch reload quantities with more deliveries on the way. Secondly, Framatome is delivering the most advanced BWR fuel assembly in the world, the ATRIUM 11, containing Chromia-enhanced fuel pellets. Chromia-enhanced fuel was developed in collaboration with the DOE Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) program and is the first commercial success story of the DOE-ATF program.
Framatome is the leader in the DOE’s Accident Tolerant Fuel Program, demonstrating advanced research and development capabilities and continuing investment in innovation. Framatome is leading the way with new fuel-cladding material types like silicon carbide and advanced physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) coating technologies for our high-performance M5Framatome metallic fuel cladding. Additionally, Framatome is the industry leader in chromia- and gadolinia-doped fuel. The continued successful execution and completion of this complex R&D project demonstrates the necessary experience required to successfully bring innovation from concept to market. |
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| | University of Michigan | Y Z | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Y Z is a Professor and Engineering Physics Chair in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Robotics, and Applied Physics Program at University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Electrical Science and Technology from University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. He was a Clifford G. Shull Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2010-2012) and a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2012-2022). The Z Lab’s research can be summarized into two words: Matter and Machine. In the Matter domain, his group synergistically integrates statistical physics, molecular simulations, artificial intelligence, and neutron scattering experiments to extend our understanding of rare/extreme events and long timescale phenomena in complex materials. Particular emphasis is given to the physics and chemistry of liquids, glasses, and complex fluids, especially at interfaces, under extreme conditions, or when driven away from equilibrium. Concurrently, on the Machine front, his group builds robots for extreme environments, including swarm robots, wheel-leg hybrid robots, and soft robots. These two research areas, spanning from fundamental to applied, serve as integral pillars in their overarching mission to foster a sustainable, resilient, and secure energy infrastructure. [https://z.engin.umich.edu/] |
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| | University of Tennessee | Nicholas R. Brown | Professor and Pietro F. Pasqua Fellow |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Expert in advanced nuclear fuels (including recycle fuels), techno-economic analysis of the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear fuel safety, and advanced nuclear reactor design with a track record of highly effective collaboration. |
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| | Boundless Impact Research & Analytics | Melissa Harclerode | Director of Research |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Boundless Impact Research & Analytics (Boundless) is an industry research and life cycle analytics firm that provides objective and actionable information to assess the adoption readiness level of advanced technologies and companies. We employ a science-based, data-driven approach, grounded in the proven methodologies of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA). The scores and metrics derived are trustworthy and reliable because they are unbiased and validated by external industry and/or scientific experts. Boundless has the capabilities to perform rapid LCAs consistent with ISO 14040, supply chain risk analysis, and rapid TEAs consistent with conventional TEA methodologies, including ISO 14076 and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) TECHTEST tool. We also have a python-based digital LCA Calculator with scenario analysis and competitor benchmarking capability.
Boundless provides decision support and information tools for assessing the life cycle and supply chain impacts and technical efficiency of advanced technologies. These tools analyze multiple factors, including, but not limited to, costs, supply chain impacts, human and environmental toxicity, and energy resilience. The Boundless approach provides spider graphs to holistically assess data, bar charts to explain each Life Cycle Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that we analyze, reports that provide important context, and other infographics and data that facilitate the rapid, rigorous, and consistent assessment of advanced technologies. Our industry analytics also provide direct comparison of specific technologies to industry peers, focusing on key life cycle performance and cost indicators, such as Cumulative Energy Demand and Cost of Production. We can also provide predictive analytics and scores on the supply chain risks, costs, and life cycle impacts of key advanced technologies. |
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| | Standard Nuclear | Christy Hembree | Senior Manager, Operations |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Standard Nuclear's mission is to deliver the essential building blocks of nuclear power reliably and at scale, enabling cost-effective, safe, and secure energy for the world. We are the most experienced team in the design and production of advanced nuclear fuels, notably tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles as well as other non-fuel nuclear ceramics used in reactors and other high temperature applications.
We operate a fully operational, commercial-scale manufacturing line in our facilities located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Additionally, we are building two new hazard categorization II facilities in both Oak Ridge and Idaho as part of the Department of Energy's Fuel Line Pilot Program which will bring on additional manufacturing capacity. The facilities will be commissioned this year and will enable fuel deliveries in support of advanced reactor operations.
Standard Nuclear also holds unique expertise in design, analysis, assembly, and testing capabilities dedicated to the development of space and radioisotope power systems. |
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