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| | AtkinsRealis | Fredrick Jackson, PMP | Sr. Project Manager / Consultant |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| To perform transmutation of used nuclear fuel there are two primary routes: (1) Non-Neutron and (2) Neutron transmutation. The CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) technology is one neutron-based method that allows some degree of used nuclear fuel transmutation. This has been studied before (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0029549311002512). AtkinsRealis owns the intellectual property for CANDU. |
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| | Argonne National Laboratory | Taek K. Kim | Department Manager |
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 maintains world-leading capabilities for developing advanced reactors and innovative technologies for recycling used nuclear fuels and managing nuclear waste. Its areas of in-depth expertise include critical and subcritical reactor physics, advanced fuel cycles, radiochemistry, nuclear-chemical engineering, waste form development, and the transmutation of radioactive materials. Argonne also has strong capabilities in accelerator design and applications based on the construction and operation experience of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and associated facilities (LINAC, etc.), as well as the Argonne Tandem LINAC Accelerator System. Argonne has high-performance computing power, such as the exa-scale supercomputer Aurora, to support the modeling and simulation of nuclear energy and transmutation systems and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies to support the operation of such facilities. Additionally, Argonne integrates world-class expertise in materials and actinide science with leading-edge capabilities in advanced manufacturing to pursue groundbreaking advances in nuclear materials.
The recent studies on nuclear waste management, such as the ongoing work on the long-lived fission product transmutation using energetic non-neutron particles (https://www.anl.gov/article/three-argonne-projects-awarded-for-novel-clean-energy-technology), accelerator driven system for disposing of the U.S. spent nuclear fuel inventory (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108385 ), long-lived fission product transmutation studies (https://doi.org/10.13182/NSE04-A2411 ), etc., show examples of Argonne’s multi-disciplinary expertise in reactor physics, fuel cycle, nuclear chemistry, and accelerator technologies and approach to systems development.
Argonne’s multidisciplinary expertise and leadership role in recycling technologies is a cornerstone of its nuclear energy development and waste management efforts, and those are highly relevant to ARPA-E’s interest in the formation of new project teams for the transmutation of used nuclear fuel. |
Website: www.anl.gov
Email: tkkim@anl.gov
Phone: 630-252-3213
Address: 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60564, United States
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| | SHINE Technologies | Ross Radel | Chief Technology Officer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Commercial organization with expertise in bringing complex nuclear projects from R&D through engineering, construction, and licensing phases and into commercial operation. Experience with nuclear modeling, neutron source development, subcritical assembly design and manufacturing, radiochemistry, nuclear design/construction, and NRC licensing.
SHINE has specific interest in developing driven subcritical (and/or critical) systems for UNF transmutation. We are concurrently developing a UNF recycling facility that includes separation stages that feed into transmutation. |
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| | Curio Solutions, LLC | Vik Singh | Chief Innovation Officer |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Curio is a nuclear technology development and innovation company based in Washington, DC. Currently, Curio is pursuing an innovative nuclear recycling technology, NuCycle. During the recycling process, Curio will isolate a co-extracted blend of transuranics containing the minor actinides, as well as several radioactive isotopes from the used nuclear fuel. Curio is also developing the HOmogeneous Plutonium Eliminating (HOPE) reactor. The HOPE reactor is a molten-salt reactor specifically designed to utilize excess neutrons for transmutation. |
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| | University of Tennessee | Nicholas Brown | Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Experienced faculty member in fuel cycle analysis and transmutation analysis, including for advanced reactor designs, advanced fuel designs, transmutation fuels, and accelerator driven systems. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S5KTBtAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
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