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| | Award Advisors | Dan Durst | Principal |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Winning a federal award requires more than a strong idea. It requires a proposal that clearly aligns your mission, technical approach, budget, compliance structure, and measurable outcomes with the priorities of the funding agency. Award Advisors helps aspiring federal grantees turn promising concepts into fundable, defensible proposals—and then build the systems needed to manage the award successfully.
Our team brings experience in federal grants, contracts, cost principles, internal controls, budgeting, indirect costs, procurement, subrecipient monitoring, reporting, and audit readiness. We help clients interpret the funding opportunity, identify the strongest competitive positioning, develop a compliant budget, strengthen the narrative, address evaluation criteria, and eliminate the technical and administrative weaknesses that often cause good proposals to lose.
That support does not end when the award is issued. In many cases, winning the grant is only the beginning of the risk. Federal funding brings significant responsibilities under the Uniform Guidance, agency-specific terms and conditions, and the award agreement itself. Award Advisors helps clients establish practical policies, procedures, financial controls, timekeeping practices, procurement standards, reporting processes, and documentation systems so they can focus on delivering results without creating unnecessary compliance exposure.
This integrated approach is especially valuable for organizations that have strong technical expertise but limited experience navigating federal requirements. Rather than hiring one advisor to help write the proposal and another to repair compliance problems later, clients can work with a single team that understands the full award lifecycle—from opportunity strategy and application development through implementation, reporting, monitoring, closeout, and audit support.
Most recently, Award Advisors supported Zolo Carbon Smartech in its pursuit of federal funding and is now helping the organization navigate the responsibilities that come with the award. That experience reflects the practical value we bring: helping innovative organizations not only compete more effectively, but also prepare to manage federal funds with confidence.
For organizations serious about winning federal funding and protecting the award once received, Award Advisors provides the strategic, technical, and compliance support needed to move from applicant to successful federal |
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| | Oceanit Laboratories, Inc. | Dr. Tarah Sullivan-Suiter | Senior Materials Engineer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| AI for High Entropy Alloy Design (AHEAD) for Nuclear Reactor Components | Oceanit is a multi-disciplinary innovation laboratory and engineering firm comprised of ~150 scientists and engineers performing research and development to solve scientific and engineering challenges across a spectrum of sectors including energy, materials, aerospace & defense, life sciences, and resilience & sustainability engineering. Oceanit has employed rigorous science and engineering practices while leveraging machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for over four decades to accelerate innovation and produce novel cutting-edge technologies for various government entities, including the Dept of Energy and ARPA-E, and industry. We have excelled through multi-disciplinary collaboration and a long history of successful partnerships with academia, government labs, and industry partners.
In an effort to address ARPA-E's Advanced Reactor Fuels solicitation, Oceanit has developed AHEAD (AI for High Entropy Alloy Design) a design concept which employs AI/ML to rapidly determine optimal High Entropy Alloy (HEA) compositions and print parameters to fabricate in-house bespoke materials for use in extreme environments (i.e. nuclear reactors, power plants). Specific material properties can be designed such as improved corrosion and radiation resistance, and high strength under elevated operating temperatures. Fabrication by Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) allows for not only complex part fabrication out of these optimized alloy compositions, but also precise control of alloy powder mixtures and controlled grain microstructure.
AHEAD is comprised of two parts:
1. AI/ML enabled prediction and optimization model to determine the ideal alloy composition based on desired material properties
2. AI informed pipeline to expedite discovery of ideal print parameters for the desired part design and composition.
Significance for ARPA-E RFI-0000094:
Advanced materials will play a key role in reactor designs, construction costs, and replacement of large parts in new nuclear power plants using advanced reactor fuels. The successful implementation of AHEAD will position the team and the US at the forefront of super alloy research and production. |
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| | Oceanit Laboratories, Inc. | Dr. Tarah Sullivan-Suiter | Senior Materials Engineer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| AI for High Entropy Alloy Design (AHEAD) for Nuclear Reactor Components | Oceanit is a multi-disciplinary innovation laboratory and engineering firm comprised of ~150 scientists and engineers performing research and development to solve scientific and engineering challenges across a spectrum of sectors including energy, materials, aerospace & defense, life sciences, and resilience & sustainability engineering. Oceanit has employed rigorous science and engineering practices while leveraging machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for over four decades to accelerate innovation and produce novel cutting-edge technologies for various government entities, including the Dept of Energy and ARPA-E, and industry. We have excelled through multi-disciplinary collaboration and a long history of successful partnerships with academia, government labs, and industry partners.
In an effort to address ARPA-E's Advanced Reactor Fuels solicitation, Oceanit has developed AHEAD (AI for High Entropy Alloy Design) a design concept which employs AI/ML to rapidly determine optimal High Entropy Alloy (HEA) compositions and print parameters to fabricate in-house bespoke materials for use in extreme environments (i.e. nuclear reactors, power plants). Specific material properties can be designed such as improved corrosion and radiation resistance, and high strength under elevated operating temperatures. Fabrication by Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) allows for not only complex part fabrication out of these optimized alloy compositions, but also precise control of alloy powder mixtures and controlled grain microstructure.
AHEAD is comprised of two parts:
1. AI/ML enabled prediction and optimization model to determine the ideal alloy composition based on desired material properties
2. AI informed pipeline to expedite discovery of ideal print parameters for the desired part design and composition.
Significance for ARPA-E RFI-0000094:
Advanced materials will play a key role in reactor designs, construction costs, and replacement of large parts in new nuclear power plants using advanced reactor fuels. The successful implementation of AHEAD will position the team and the US at the forefront of super alloy research and production. |
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| | FluxPoint Energy | Christopher J Rimel | Chief of Staff |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Nuclear fuel cycle | https://www.powermag.com/fluxpoint-energy-enters-race-to-build-first-new-u-s-uranium-conversion-plant-in-nearly-70-years
FluxPoint energy.com |
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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
| | We are bunch of Chemical, Mechanical, Chemistry and Biology experts.
For this opportunity we can help with
Process Engineering (including power cycles)
Sizing
P&ID
Costing
Aspen HYSYS modeling
Techno-economic Analysis
Life Cycle analysis |
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| | HybriMet LLC | Joe Hensel | Sr Program Mgr |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Core Competency: Ultra-high temperature, corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) for extreme molten salt environments.
1. Technology Overview & Capability
HybriMet LLC designs and manufactures proprietary Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) engineered specifically for hard wear surfaces, rotating machinery, and bearing assemblies operating in extreme environments. Our structural composites are engineered to maintain mechanical integrity, extreme hardness, and dimensional stability at continuous operating temperatures up to 750°C.
2. Technical Specifications & Validated Data
Unlike theoretical material concepts, HybriMet’s composite materials have been empirically validated in active, extreme conditions. We possess existing static corrosion and wear data demonstrating exceptional survivability and low degradation rates in both:
• Chloride Salt Environments (Critical for next-generation Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and industrial thermal storage systems).
• Fluoride Salt Environments (Critical for Gen IV Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) and nuclear fuel recycling loops).
3. Target Component Applications
Our material formulation directly solves the most frequent mechanical failure points in high-temperature liquid metal and salt loops, including:
• High-temperature journal bearings
• Pump foot bearings, shaft wear sleeves and guide bearings
• Dynamic valve seats, seals for flow control applications
4. Partnering Objectives
HybriMet LLC is actively seeking to join consortiums or prime proposals for current ARPA-E (HORNIG, IGNIITE 2026) and DOE Office of Nuclear Energy / Solar Energy Technologies Office solicitations. We are equipped and flexible to participate as either:
• Subcontractor / Sub-tier Vendor: Providing custom-machined MMC components, bearings, or custom wear-coatings tailored to a prime contractor’s primary system design.
• Joint-Venturer / Co-Prime: Collaborating with national laboratories or system integrators to scale dynamic component testing from benchtop to operational pilot loops. |
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| | Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. (AMA) | Emanuel Grella | Lead Aeropsace Engineer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. (AMA) harnesses knowledge, innovation, and dedication to create solutions for today’s problems and provide a catalyst for tomorrow’s discoveries. Since 1962, AMA has worked with government and commercial organizations combining the best in engineering, science, and mathematics with the latest in analytics, information technology, and visualization. With sites in Virginia, Maryland, Alabama, Texas, Colorado and California, AMA is a small business with a wide reach. AMA has supported NASA's Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP) program since 2016, building expertise relevant to transuranic (TRU) fuel development.
Nuclear Fuel Development & Qualification: AMA leads NASA's SNP Technical Discipline Team, conducting assessments of terrestrial nuclear fuel development, fuel qualification approaches, coated particle fuel fabrication methods, and nuclear fuel derivatives. This experience is directly applicable to TRU fuel design, fabrication, testing, and qualification efforts.
Nuclear Modeling & Simulation: AMA develops and applies high-fidelity multi-physics modeling tools, including neutronics thermal hydraulics, and fission product analysis, to evaluate fuel performance and reactor behavior under extreme operating conditions.
Cost, Risk & Deployment Analysis: AMA has developed risk-informed cost estimates and technology roadmaps for complex nuclear programs, including parametric cost modeling and integrated risk assessments applicable to fuel supply chain economics and deployment pathway planning. |
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| | University of South Carolina | Ming Hu | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Prof. Ming Hu’s research group specializes in computational materials science, thermal transport, high-throughput materials discovery, and machine-learning/artificial-intelligence-enabled atomistic modeling (DFT/MD). The group’s background spans first-principles calculations, molecular dynamics, deep-learning interatomic potentials, and multiscale/multiphysics simulation of energy materials, including prior work on thermodynamic and transport properties of molten salts such as LiF and FLiBe that are relevant to advanced nuclear energy systems. Prof. Hu is interested in partnering on ARPA-E Advanced Reactor Fuels teams by contributing predictive modeling capabilities for TRU fuel design, qualification, and deployment, particularly in quantifying thermal conductivity, defect- and irradiation-affected heat transfer, temperature-dependent thermophysical properties, and uncertainty-aware structure–property relationships. The Hu group can support integrated fuel-development efforts through AI-accelerated screening of candidate fuel and matrix compositions, development of machine-learning potentials for complex actinide-bearing or surrogate systems, atomistic-to-continuum parameter generation, and close collaboration with experimental, fabrication, irradiation-testing, and fuel-performance modeling partners to help reduce data gaps, improve fuel-performance predictions, and accelerate regulatory acceptance of economically viable domestic TRU fuels. |
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| | Marchitto Inc. | Joey Marchitto | Founder |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Marchitto Inc. is developing Project THORON: A miniaturized Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor engineered for integration into military ground vehicles, aircraft, tanks, and naval vessels. The primary customer is the US military. THORON operates on a thorium-232 fuel cycle dissolved in FLiBe salt at atmospheric pressure, breeding uranium-233 as fissile material continuously during operation. The reactor produces 800 kilowatts on the T1-M tactical ground vehicle platform, scaling to 1,200 kilowatts on the NT-1 main battle tank and 5 megawatts on the NS-1 naval surface vessel. The TRITON triple-redundant containment system; hardened capsule, passive freeze plug shutdown, and remote vitrification - provides battlefield-grade safety. Advanced reactor fuel qualification for vehicle-scale LFTR geometry is a critical path item for THORON's development program. We are seeking teaming partners with expertise in thorium fluoride fuel chemistry, FLiBe salt synthesis and qualification, Hastelloy-N irradiation performance, and fission product management in compact salt loops. We have established relationships with the DOE MSR program at PNNL and are pursuing CRADA partnership with ORNL. |
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| | Quadrant Nuclear Industries, Inc. | Sean M. McDeavitt | Director, Quadrant Nuclear Fuels |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Quadrant Nuclear Industries (QNI) is focused on strengthening the nation’s nuclear infrastructure through advanced fuel‑cycle technologies, workforce development, and next‑generation nuclear operations. QNI is developing a nuclear fuel recycling design to enable localized, state‑level processing of Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) with aspirations to recycle energy-bearing materials into advanced reactor fuel designs.
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Sean McDeavitt has a string background in the development, behavior, and processing of advanced nuclear fuels, used nuclear fuels, and waste form materials. His multidisciplinary experience in nuclear, materials, and chemical engineering has equipped him with the flexibility to make leadership and research contributions in a diverse range of subjects. He has strong background in oxide, metal, fluoride, TRISO, and other forms of fuel, including HALEU and U/TRU concepts. |
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| | newcleo | Francisco Garcia Ferre | Director of Materials & Chemistry |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | newcleo is a large company (900+ employees) founded in 2021; it is headquartered in Europe, but is also incorporated in USA via newcleo Americas LLC. The company's mission is to close the nuclear fuel cycle by (a) developing, deploying and operating MOX and multi-fuel manufacturing facilities amd (b) developing and deploying a fleet of lead-cooled fast reactors. Its main interests revolve around GIV fission reactor technology, specifically MOX fuels and lead-coolant, and everything that surrounds that. Its capabilities include R&D, engineering and EPC, particularly through its group companies SRS, Fucina Italia and Rutschi, and its existing R&D partnerships, particularly with the italian nuclear energy agency (ENEA). Indeed, for the R&D part, newcleo co-owns with ENEA the largest R&D center in the world for lead technology (i.e. in Brasimone, close to Bologna), including a wide range of test loops and test facilities for thermal-hydraulics, thermo-mechanics, safety and materials. This includes (i) corrosion test stagnant lead capsules, flowing lead loops, mechanical testing machines in lead environment (5x servohydraulic, 1x servoelectric, 20x creep machines), pressurized tube furnaces, an integrated lead loop system of 2 MW called OTHELLO (with pump, steam generator and fuel pin bundle simulator), a fully integrated lead-cooled 10 MW system called PRECURSOR (down-scaled lead fast reactor with scale 1:9, including a main vessel, integrated pumps, steam generators and an electrically heated core, as well as a fully equipped secondary system with a turbine electricity generator), and more.
Importantly, newcleo also has brand-new, world-class laboratory capabilities in Turin. The lab includes all sorts of characterization instruments and tools for metallurgy. To list a few: double aberration corrected HR-(S)TEM with EELS detector (300 kV thermofisher spectra); 3x FEG Zeiss SEMs equipped with FIB, EDX, EBSD, EPMA, scanning-TEM, in-situ alemnis mechanical tester in compression and traction up to 1000°C; x-ray CT with 500 nm resolution and in-situ mechanical testing capability, high temperature nanoindentation, high temperature XRD, XPS, AFM, GDOES, ToF-SIMS, TGA-DSC, LECO, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, furnaces, a fully equipped gleeble machine, 2x vacuum induction melting furnaces (500g & 20 kg), heat treatment furnace, several servo-hydraulic and servo-electric mechanical testers, 10 creep machines (air), Charpy, and more! |
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| | Cortix Tech | Valmor F. de Almeida | Technical Lead |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Cortix Tech is an R&D company that provides technical support, integration, and simulation on top of the Cortix platform. We model complex systems, run scalable studies, and provide AI-ready scientific data for training and user consumption.
Areas of interest:
Nuclear chemical engineering (nuclear materials productions, reprocessing, milling, purification, conversion)
Social sciences
Training and Certification |
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| | BW&CO | Robert Wegner | CRO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | BW&CO Consulting helps emerging technology companies secure and execute non-dilutive funding from federal agencies, state programs, foundations, and strategic public-sector partners. BW&CO supports clients across the full funding lifecycle, including opportunity identification, funding strategy, proposal development, stakeholder outreach, submission support, and post-award positioning.
BW&CO brings a systematic, data-informed approach. Rather than relying only on individual consultant experience, BW&CO applies lessons learned from 3,000+ funded proposals representing $3B+ in awards. This gives clients pattern recognition across agencies, technical domains, review criteria, and award pathways.
Services include identifying and prioritizing funding opportunities; proposal writing, review, and editing; technical and commercialization positioning; budget and milestone support; stakeholder outreach strategy; and monitoring across funding sources.
Key Differentiators
1. Unmatched Funding Experience
BW&CO applies lessons learned from 3,000+ funded proposals and $3B+ awarded to every engagement. While traditional consultants often rely on limited individual experience, BW&CO brings insight from thousands of successful funding efforts. One client with former senior defense leaders relies on BW&CO because the firm provides funding intelligence and competitive positioning they cannot replicate.
2. Front Door + Back Door Approach
Traditional consultants often focus only on the published solicitation. BW&CO also analyzes underlying funding dynamics, including agency priorities, stakeholder interests, direct outreach opportunities, and non-obvious pathways to award. This helped one client uncover a non-public fast-track pathway.
3. Broad Opportunity Coverage
Many firms focus narrowly on one funding stream. BW&CO monitors hundreds of opportunities daily and identifies pathways across agencies, programs, and strategic partners. This helped one client find an opportunity they did not know existed, leading to their first federal defense contract. |
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| | Allosterix, LLC | Przemyslaw G. Czyryca | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Innovative enrichment technology - isotopic fractionation, albeit minuscule, commonly accompanies phase partition. Therefore, a chromatographic process, specifically designed to have multiple theoretical plates (not all variants of chromatography do!), will also execute multiple, sequential isotopic fractionation equilibria, i.e. will act as an isotopic enrichment cascade within a single chromatographic column, combining these small fractionation events into a larger net enrichment.
The process is uniquely simple, inexpensive and fast to develop and deploy as a variant of preparative-scale gas chromatography. Allosterix has revived this previously dormant (due to its dual-use potential and regulatory burden) project in response to the 2024 embargo and acute deficit of U.S. domestic enrichment capacity, and secured the relevant IP. The project was previously submitted to DOE under DE-FOA-0003487, but the entire R&D topic area was subsequently cancelled. DOE peer review expressly termed the technology "disruptive" - Allosterix will be happy to share that review with potential partners. It is a separate question why this property of chromatography has not been identified before - arguably due to the prior focus on the capture-regeneration variants of chromatography.
Fuel manufacturers interested in owning the entire supply chain will be the preferred partners. |
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| | Purdue University | Xiaoliang Wei | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | My research is rooted in electrochemical energy conversion and storage with a primary focus on redox flow batteries. My expertise spans over a wide range from organic and inorganic electro-active materials, aqueous and nonaqueous electrolytes, membranes, electrodes, electrocatalysis, multi-cell stacks, electrochemical reactor design, and techno-economic analysis. My interest in advanced reactor fuels is in the separation of lithium isotopes that are essentially important for both fission- and fusion- based nuclear reactors. Among the two isotopes, 7Li has served as a pH controller or a molten salt coolant in fission reactors that require >99.9% isotopic purity; and 6Li with >30% enriched abundance can be used to produce tritium fuel in fusion reactors via neutron bombardment. Considering their natural abundance of 7.5% 6Li and 92.5% 7Li, separation of the two isotopes to reach the favored enrichment levels is required for these applications. Currently, the only industrial scale isotope separation method is the lithium amalgam process (COLEX), which is based on the stronger affinity of 6Li than 7Li with elemental mercury. Despite the good separation factor, the COLEX method has severe technical and environmental concerns such as high energy consumption, decomposition of the amalgam, and generation of toxic mercury vapors and wastes. Herein, we have achieved a proof-of-concept demonstration of a redox flow battery-based electrochemical method to separate these two isotopes. Using electrons to drive the isotope separation, we have obtained good separation factors under lab-scale room temperature cell operations. The preliminary results indicate exceptional advantages of energy efficiency, fast rate, cost-effectiveness, and environmentally friendliness. |
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| | UC Berkeley | Massimiliano Fratoni | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Extensive experience in the design and development of advanced reactors, including molten salt reactors, pebble bed reactors, liquid-metal-cooled fast reactors, and micro-reactors. Extensive work on the back end of the fuel cycle going at different fuel cycle options as well disposal pathways. Neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and uncertainty quantification capabilities. |
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| | Sandia National Labortories | Matthew Christian | Staff Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | MELCOR is a fully integrated, engineering-scale severe accident analysis code developed and maintained by Sandia National Laboratories. While MELCOR is not a fuel fabrication of qualification tool, it provides uniquely valuable system-level capabilities relevant to the development and deployment of advanced transuranic (TRU) fuels. MELCOR's strengths lie in evaluating plant accident progression under beyond-design-basis conditions. These capabilities can help project teams assess how TRU fuel concepts may influence reactor safety margins and source term behavior. MELCOR can support this need through risk-informed analysis across candidate fuel and reactor system designs, enabling a domestic TRU fuel supply chain and accelerating qualification and acceptance. |
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| | Eva Garland Consulting | Dr. Eva Garland | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Eva Garland Consulting (EGC) was established by Dr. Eva Garland in 2013 with a mission to advance science. Over the past decade, EGC has emerged as a global leader in securing non-dilutive funding and providing comprehensive accounting, compliance, tax, and advisory services.
EGC has successfully assisted clients in securing and managing hundreds of grants and contracts, including large DOE awards, totaling over $2 billion. EGC’s 3,000+ clients, spanning 50 states and 5 continents, include universities, startups, large companies, and government agencies. EGC is proud to have supported our clients in progressing technologies from concept to commercialization, contributing new tools to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Built on our principle of Excellence, EGC adopts a tailored and thorough strategy to assist every client in achieving their fundraising objectives.
Through our Proposal Support Services, clients collaborate directly with EGC’s Scientific Grants Experts, all of whom hold Ph.D.s and have deep experience securing funding from numerous government agencies and private foundations. Our services include:
• Writing and submitting proposals
• Support with registrations and budget preparation
• Critical scientific review and editing
• Strategies to increase the competitiveness of the grant applications
Our Experts also craft Strategic Non-Dilutive Funding Plans to meet the specific needs of each of our clients, which include:
• Identification and prioritization of non-dilutive funding opportunities
• Gantt chart of proposal preparation, submission, and funding timelines
• Resources required to support grant submissions
• Strategies to increase competitiveness of grant submissions
Our team’s expertise spans over 100 federal and state agencies and private foundations, which collectively provide over $1 trillion in funding opportunities each year |
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| | University of South Carolina | Theodore M. Besmann | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Extensive experience in measurement of thermal properties and thermochemical modeling of complex nuclear materials and waste forms. Experimental capabilities include high-temperature material synthesis, two low oxygen and moisture gloveboxes, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, and compositional analysis via ICP-OES and inert gas fusion capable of analyzing, all available for low-level radioactive samples, including uranium-bearing materials. Available in 2026-7 will be a 750 ft2 laboratory for performing research with transuranic elements including plutonium and neptunium. The group under Besmann has expertise in using a variety of software for thermochemical analysis and modeling, with complementary first principles calculational capability. |
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| | Baseline Fission Inc | Dr. Chandrashekhar Sonwane, PE | CTO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | We are interested in partnering.
Our expertise:
Reaction Engineering
Reaction Kinetics
Chemistry
Reactor Design
Power Plant modeling
Cost |
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| | Thor Energy AS | Øystein Asphjell | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Thor Energy AS is a Norwegian nuclear fuel technology company with irradiation-tested thorium-plutonium fuel technology directly applicable to TRU fuel development. Our Th-MOX fuel (thorium-plutonium mixed oxide) was irradiated in the Halden Research Reactor under OECD/IFE oversight, producing one of the most comprehensive Western datasets on this fuel form. This existing data substantially de-risks the path to TRU fuel qualification within the program's seven-year target.
Th-MOX uses plutonium as the fissile driver in a thorium oxide matrix, compatible with existing oxide fuel fabrication infrastructure. Th-MOX offers key advantages as a TRU fuel pathway: a) enables higher initial load of Pu (than U-Mox) enabling faster disposition of Pu. b) will produce much higher amount of usable fissile material in SNF. c) greatly increased safety margins in operation. d) much improved accident scenario performance (in many ways the only Pu-based fuel that can claim true ATF attributes).
Thor Energy also developed ThAdditive (UO2 with ThO2), offering improved fuel performance in existing LWRs. Also irradiation-tested at Halden.
ROLE SOUGHT: Thor Energy contributes fuel design IP, neutronic and fuel performance data from Halden irradiations, and fuel cycle analysis expertise. We seek partners for: oxide pellet fabrication and NRC fuel licensing; irradiation testing, fuel performance modeling, and post-irradiation examination at a DOE national laboratory; a US utility to host a lead test assembly; and advanced reactor developers interested in U-233 as a future fuel source. |
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| | Virginia Commonwealth University | Lane Carasik | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering has significant capabilities in computational and experimental aspects of nuclear engineering relevant to advanced reactor fuels. For computational capabilities, we specialize in multiphysics analysis involving neutronics, thermal hydraulics, and structural mechanics using US DOE NEAMS (MOOSE, Nek5000/NekRS, System Analysis Module, etc) and associated tools. For experimental capabilities, we have an extensive number of scaled surrogate thermal hydraulic flow loops, advanced materials fabrication (cold spray, 3-D metallic printing, metal forming, coatings, etc), and surface characterization of novel materials.
We would love to collaborate with interested parties on this funding opportunity to development of transuranic (TRU) fuels. |
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| | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Najeb Abdul-Jabbar | Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | Thermodynamics, kinetics, and physical properties of nuclear reactor fuels. Capabilities include structural characterization, material synthesis, and thermal analysis. |
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| | Texas A&M University | M M Faruque Hasan | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| | My expertise is in the areas of scientific machine learning and physics-constrained AI/ML for hybrid modeling, systems design optimization, and techno-economic analysis (TEA), and scale-up. |
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| | Liberty Ion | Evan Erickson | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| | Let Liberty Ion handle your grant application for you! Liberty Ion is seeking to collaborate on teams responding to ARPA-E’s potential NOFO on Advanced Reactor Fuels (RFI-0000094). The firm helps applicants from start to finish, including building the right team, shaping a strong project narrative, developing a credible and competitive budget, calculating fringe and indirect rates, aligning key personnel, and handling the required application paperwork.
The firm’s founder previously led a cathode manufacturing company as CEO for nearly five years, bringing direct experience in material production, scale-up, and commercialization. Today, Liberty Ion works with energy technology companies to secure nondilutive funding, strengthen market positioning, and move projects toward deployment. Our expertise in advanced energy manufacturing and deployment strategy translates well to emerging nuclear fuel ecosystems.
Liberty Ion has authored and managed many awarded DOE proposals. That mix of grant experience, technical background and real operating experience makes the firm a strong fit for applicants that need both a compelling proposal and practical support navigating the federal process. |
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