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| | Intellistore, Inc. | Roger Olle | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Transportation
| Intellistore, Inc. has expertise in automatic material conveyance and robotic handling automation. We are interested in development and facilitation of autonomous handling, automated storage, and robotic manipulation of dry, spent nuclear fuel casks. |
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| | Intellistore, Inc. | Roger Olle | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Transportation
| Intellistore, Inc. has expertise in automatic material conveyance and robotic handling automation. We are interested in development and facilitation of autonomous handling, automated storage, and robotic manipulation of dry, spent nuclear fuel casks. |
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| | North Carolina State University | Robert Bruce Hayes | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Novel nuclear hyper-breeder reactor capable of running on natural uranium or in a fission battery/microreactor running on LEU. The design is largely in its infancy and has only a handful of publications meaning it is rich with research opportunities for development. The most recent publication is below;
Hayes, R.B., Sawyers, M.J., (2023) A thermal natural uranium breeder reactor for large and small applications with passive safeguard designs. Progress in Nuclear Energy 163 104804. |
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| | TechScale Solutions, LLC | George Roberts | President |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| TechScale Solutions, LLC is an engineering consulting company focused on guiding clients through the process of scaling up technology prototypes into commercial products. We are well suited to lead projects in new product development, cost modeling, manufacturing scale-up, supply chain development and product integration for new materials and/or components.
We provide a full range of services including the development of the people, processes, technologies and problem solving skills required to bring new products from concept through commercialization.
Specific areas of expertise include fuel cells, electrolyzers, flow batteries, hydrogen purification, electrochemical purification of metals and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and conversion.
Example client projects include:
• Led international and US engineering teams to develop a prototype PEM Fuel Cell Stack for use in heavy duty transportation applications
• Supported internal projects for an OEM to develop reduced cost, high performance PEM electrolyzers
• Managed cell stack development project to scale from laboratory test articles to a full size, grid scale flow battery energy storage system
• Provided technical and project management guidance to scale-up an electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion technology to produce hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals from CO2 at commercial scale
Prior to founding TechScale Solutions in 2014, George Roberts had twenty years of new product development experience in a range of industries including specialty materials, automotive and renewable energy at companies which include Hy9 Corp, UTC Power and W.L. Gore & Associates. |
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| | Secure Micro Technologies, LLC | Heather Kinsy | President |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Power Systems Cybersecurity - our company provides a range of solutions aimed at ensuring the security, trustworthiness, and privacy of services computing systems and applications.
These include cutting-edge cryptographic solutions, digital auditing, comprehensive logging and forensics capabilities, secure data storage options, and retrofitting of legacy systems, among other offerings.
Our hardware root-of-trust designs allow for the secure integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) with Information Technology (IT), ensuring formally validated security and resilience in critical systems, such as those in power and nuclear industries.
Our advanced power systems security command platform integrates hybrid threat evaluation capabilities to assess both cyber and physical assets. This enables the accurate simulation and detection of malicious cyber events in real-time, with sophisticated data visualization features, using high-fidelity hardware-in-the-loop instances. |
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| | Award Advisors | Dan Durst | Principal |
Non-Profit
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Other Energy Technologies
| Award Advisors is a specialized consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations navigate the complexities of federal grant processes, particularly those offered by the Department of Energy (DOE). As a trusted partner, we bring a wealth of expertise in Federal project budget development and post-award compliance, ensuring that our clients are well-prepared to secure and successfully manage DOE grants.
Expert Budget Development:
Our team excels in the intricacies of federal budget formulation, including the completion of SF 424 and the DOE Budget Justification Worksheet. We work closely with organizations to develop detailed, accurate budgets that align with DOE requirements and maximize funding opportunities. Our deep understanding of cost principles and budgeting regulations ensures that your proposal is not only compliant but also competitive.
Indirect Rate Calculation and Negotiation:
Award Advisors specializes in the calculation and negotiation of indirect cost rates, a critical component for organizations seeking to optimize their funding. We guide our clients through the complex process of determining appropriate rates, negotiating with federal agencies, and applying those rates effectively within their budgets. This service is essential for organizations aiming to recover the full spectrum of allowable costs, thereby enhancing the sustainability and impact of their projects.
Post-Award Compliance Preparation:
Navigating the post-award phase requires a thorough understanding of 2 CFR 200, the "Uniform Guidance" that governs federal awards. Our services extend beyond the pre-award stage to ensure that organizations are fully prepared to meet compliance requirements after securing funding. We provide training, policy development, and ongoing support to help organizations establish robust compliance frameworks, mitigating the risk of audit findings and ensuring project success.
Partnering with Award Advisors means gaining a dedicated ally committed to your success in the DOE grant landscape. Let us help you turn your innovative ideas into funded, compliant, and impactful projects. |
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| | Srijan LLC | Shikha Prasad | Chief Executive Officer |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Srijan LLC's capabilities include perform high fidelity radiation transport and time-dependent calculations using numeric solvers and simulation codes, such as, MCNP. We also have demonstrated capability in spatial computing, such as, virtual/mixed reality for training and planning in laboratory settings. |
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| | University of Nevada, Reno | Ehsan Vahidi | Assistant Professor & Butler Endowed Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| I hold the John N. Butler Endowed Professorship at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). I have contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on producing, recovering, and recycling critical and strategic materials using methods such as chemical leaching, bioleaching, and solvent extraction. My expertise in life cycle sustainability assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA) is instrumental in developing realistic environmental and economic models to evaluate these processes.
Before joining UNR, I served as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I investigated various greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction solutions in construction materials in the United States. I currently collaborate with several mining companies across the U.S. to help them achieve their carbon reduction objectives.
I am currently working on an active ARPA-E project, conducting TEA and LCA, and have a full understanding of the requirements for ARPA-E projects.
Statement of Interest for the ARPA-E Opportunity:
I am interested in participating as a teaming partner for Category C under the DOE ARPA-E FOA. With my extensive experience in TEA and LCA, I am well-equipped to facilitate Category A and B teams in achieving the following objectives:
Developing a comprehensive materials and component database for accelerator or nuclear processing facilities, including the identification of nuclear data gaps necessary for the commercial success of a transmutation facility.
Performing TEA and LCA for transmutation facilities incorporating technologies developed in Categories A and B.
My current work on an ARPA-E project and my background in developing environmental and economic models position me to contribute effectively to this initiative. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Yong Joong Lee | Senior Target Systems R&D Engineer |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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| The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been operating world's most powerful proton accelerator and target station. Long years of experiences in operating a high-power liquid metal target with relentless R&D efforts have evolved the target technologies pushing the design beam power limit on the target to unprecedented 2 MW. To cover the increasing demand for neutron scattering sciences, SNS has been moving forward to with plans for a second target station. The STS target being developed is a water-cooled solid tungsten target with a proton power rating of 700 kW. Upon completion of STS, both target stations will receive pulsed proton beam with a combined beam power of 2.7 MW.
Dr. Lee has been working on the R&D of rotating tungsten target for the STS project. Prior to STS, he worked on physics and technologies of high-power spallation targets that include the zircalloy clad lead target at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the helium cooled solid tungsten target at the European Spallation Source (ESS). The PSI target receives a continuous-wave (cw) proton beam at 1 MW beam power and the ESS target is designed for receiving 5 MW pulsed proton beam.
For the realization of an accelerator-target facility for used nuclear fuel (UNF) transmutation, it is critical to develop a target technology to accommodate an unprecedentedly high proton beam power far surpassing the current maximum of 2 MW. Target experts at ORNL have been working at the forefront of cutting-edge target technologies and built up world's leading competences in the field. Our interest is to join the team and contribute to the development of a high-power target that can facilitate the industrial scale UNF transmutation. |
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| | IRP Technology LLC | Neil Campbell | Chief Technology Officer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| IRP Technology is developing a diode pumped solid state front-end optically pumped molecular laser. In essence, a new generation of high-power CO2 laser technology bypassing the scalability, performance and maintenance bounds of current technology. It is ideally suited to ultrashort pulse (USP) application in the LWIR. It presents with an order of magnitude increase in efficiency over existing competitive technology, and is compact, turnkey and low maintenance.
For transmutation, a critical advantage is the USP capability extending to ~500fs, which places it as the only practical, widely deployable, and commercially viable laser technology that we know of that can meet all criteria identified in 2013 by the DOE as being needed for all future particle accelerator applications: “high peak power (high energy in a very short duration pulse), high average power (many pulses per second), and high electrical (“wall plug”) efficiency.” The longer CO2 wavelength is notably important; quoting Mikhail Polyanskiy, BNL, 2011: “Accordingly, the search for practical solutions for generating high power ultrashort pulses of long wavelength radiation has become one of the essential problems in extreme light science.” That is a problem that our CO2 laser approach will solve, and it provides the practical basis for driving micro-accelerators, both plasma, e.g., Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA), and solid targets.
The principle and viability of laser driven acceleration is already proven in numerous institutes around the world, typically only with ~1µm laboratory bound lasers, the complexity and inefficiency of which impedes wide and commercially viable uptake.
Laser driven acceleration offers an efficient, compact, practical non-nuclear driver for transmutation of used nuclear fuel, and pertinently, a neutron source for sub critical reactor concepts.
The technology is protected by patents in the USA and Europe. The laser technology, and the laser driven accelerator design concept, have been funded by more than $4.5 million in US Government grants, with the next step being development of a prototype.
Future commercially viable nuclear opportunities are Plutonium-238 for spacecraft propulsion, non-destructive evaluation of dry, spent nuclear fuel (the casks and the fuel itself), neutron diagnostics and as a neutron source for fission, nuclear fuel enrichment by laser isotope separation, and ultimately, accelerator driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) R&D. |
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| | Virginia Tech | Alireza Haghighat | Professor & Director |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| We propose to design and evaluate the technical parameters, licensing requirements, and costs associated with constructing an Accelerator Driven Micro Reactor (ADMIRE) prototype. This reactor will be used for burning nuclear waste, specifically minor actinides and long-lived fission products, and producing process heat. ADMIRE's core will remain subcritical to avoid the unstable conditions often faced by critical reactors, which result from the low fraction of delayed neutron precursors in minor actinides.
ADMIRE utilizes molten salt fuel to eliminate the need for pressurization, which simplifies manufacturing, reduces material damage, and enables efficient process heat production. This capability can significantly lower the costs of reactor construction and operation while reducing the radiotoxicity of nuclear waste to approximately 300 years, as opposed to the typical 300,000 years. Additionally, ADMIRE will employ a thorium fuel cycle to avoid the generation of minor actinides.
In parallel, we would evaluate the options for a high-reliability high-efficiency accelerator that would be coupled to the reactor. This would be developed using industrial components wherever possible, but also include recent technology advances such as operation of superconducting cavities at 4.5 K.
The concept design for ADMIRE is informed by lessons learned from previous studies conducted by the Principal Investigator (PI), several Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs), and other researchers worldwide on the development of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS).
The Principal Investigator (PI) and several Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs) are members of the recently established Virginia Innovative Nuclear (VIN) Hub, funded by the State of Virginia. We plan to request matching funds from the state through the VIN Hub to support this project. To date, we have assembled a team of colleagues from universities, industry, and national laboratories to address various aspects of the project. |
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| | Boundless Impact Research & Analytics | Maria Jaramillo, M.S., | Senior Research Analyst |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Boundless is a Federal and New York State-certified women-owned business specializing in industry research and environmental impact analytics. Our approach, grounded in the proven Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, produces highly accurate and actionable industry and company analytics that are used to de-risk clean technologies, inform operational decisions, and differentiate products. The scores and metrics derived from our assessments are unbiased and validated by our extensive network of +1,000 industry and/or scientific experts. Boundless has completed assessments of hundreds of clean-tech products, including nuclear energy production, recycling, and storage, renewable energy production, and advanced materials.
Boundless can provide teaming partners with our extensive and customizable LCA services that align with all three Vision OPEN goals, including:
ISO-Compliant LCA: Follows rigorous ISO standards (14040 & 14044) for LCA modeling and reporting, involving three independent experts for peer review, competitor analysis, sensitivity analysis, and complete source documentation. It results in a 60-80 pages report that gives full visibility on a product upstream and downstream performance.
1-4 environmental metrics (4-6 months)
Best suited for projects ≥TRL 4
Baseline LCA: ISO-guided and performed at a reduced time and cost, it is a data-driven impact analysis that enables smarter operational and investment decisions. This LCA includes independent modeling, competitor analysis, and an independent industry expert review.
Full: 7-8 environmental metrics (6-8 weeks)
Basic: 4 environmental metrics (4-6 weeks)
Techno-Economic Assessment: Evaluates companies’ financial performance and helps them leverage their cost of production to gain strategic and competitive advantage. The report analyzes scalability potential and how the product compares to market dynamics.
Cost of production assessment with competitor analysis (4-6 weeks)
GHG Calculator: An Excel-based tool allowing companies to alter inputs and quantify environmental outcomes to inform and de-risk their decision-making process.
Includes 8 input categories and 2-3 subcategories per input (4-6 weeks)
Valuable at all TRLs
GHG Assessment: Independent GHG Footprint modeling with competitor analysis and expert review, resulting in an impact report showing environmental performance and emission hot-spots.
Single metric (GHG Footprint) (3-4 weeks) |
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| | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | L Vergari | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Dr. Vergari is the director of the Advanced Blankets & Coolants Laboratory (ABC Lab) at UIUC. Vergari has expertise in molten salt chemistry and nuclear materials has led or collaborated in projects involving electrochemistry, corrosion, mass transport, material characterization, material testing, data science, and multi-physics simulations. Related to this FOA, Vergari has interest and expertise in chemical and electrochemical methods for isotope/element separation and in materials analysis.
The ABC Lab is a chemical laboratory with capabilities for handling high-temperature liquids, beryllium-containing samples, and irradiated materials. The Lab is equipped with several inert atmosphere gloveboxes for molten salt (including FLiBe) and liquid metal work. The gloveboxes host multiple custom-designed electrochemical cells (employing Gamry 1010E potentiostats), sparging setups, and corrosion pots designed to study material interactions and mass transport up to 1100 °C A Keyence 7000H digital microscope equipped with laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is installed in one of the gloveboxes to provide chemical and microstructural characterization while maintaining an inert environment. A Shimadzu QP2020 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) is being installed in connection to the gloveboxes to probe cover gas composition during experiments enabling coupled electrochemical-gas analysis. An Anton Paar Autosorb 6300 Gas Sorption Analyzer is being procured and installed to allow for high-temperature gas adsorption and desorption studies on salt-exposed and/or irradiated samples. Sample preparation equipment (low-speed saw, polisher, ultrasonic cleaner, etc. ) is available for small machining pre and post experiments. Multiple machine shops and research facilities are also available for use through the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), such as Center for Microanalysis of Materials, Micro/Nanofabrication Facility, Laser and Spectroscopy Facility, and Center for Computation. A large variety of characterization instruments are readily available through MRL and across the campus, including: 13 electron microscopes, XPS, Raman, XRD, SAXS, DSC, SIMS, APT, FTIR, NMR, ICPMS. |
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| | AtkinsRealis U.S. Nuclear | Jeffrey Brunell | Sr. Director, Business Development |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| AtkinsRéalis US Nuclear is a company that specializes in nuclear operations, process design engineering, waste management, characterization, transportation, disposition, and high-level waste technologies. We provide specialized, technology-based, Q-cleared, and other nuclear services to government customers.
Our interest is to join a capability team to provide our experience and SMEs in nuclear chemistry, nuclear safety, process chemistry, process engineering, and radiological monitoring. |
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| | Argonne National Laboratory | Michael Kelly | Physicist, Accelerator Development Group Leader |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| The accelerator development group at in the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory specializes in leading edge technology for superconducting ion accelerators with over four decades of experience building, operating and upgrading ATLAS, our in-house National User Facility serving the low energy nuclear physics community. The group operates world unique processing and testing facilities tailored to the requirements of ion accelerators. A major thrust of present work is toward the development of transformative technologies intended to dramatically reduce the size and cost of the next generation of ion accelerators. |
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| | Johns Hopkins University | Corey Oses | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| The Entropy for Energy laboratory focuses on the design and discovery of high-entropy materials for energy applications (high-entropy oxides and metals).
The research is in line with the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI): employing high-throughput first-principles calculations and machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithms for accelerated discovery and deployment of new materials.
Summary of capabilities: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111889.
The group actively develops new workflows within the aflow++ software framework for autonomous materials design.
It has been used to generate one of the largest databases for inorganic materials, the aflow.org repositories, containing millions of compounds each characterized by hundreds of properties.
The software framework and repositories have been employed for the discovery of new magnets (the first ever designed by computational approaches), superalloys, high-entropy ceramics, and phase change memory compositions.
The work has been featured as part of the White House’s Office of Science & Technology Policy 2021 MGI Strategic Plan.
Some past work in high-entropy materials:
- http://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-019-0170-8
- http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06786-y
- http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33497-1
- http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25979-5
- http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07160-7
Magnets: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50257-1_108-1
Superalloys: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.09.017
Phase-change memory: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19597-w
More information can be found at our website: https://entropy4energy.ai. |
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| | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Terence Tarnowsky | Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Nuclear physicist with background in analyzing large datasets. Primary POC for LANL's current nuclear transmutation efforts. |
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| | Tech-X Corporation | John Cary | Chief Technology Officer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Tech-X Corporation is a small business that started in the domain of computational accelerator physics and has continued to provide its expertise in this area to projects across accelerator physics, electromagnetics, plasma physics, and related areas. Tech-X customers include the Departments of Energy and Defense, NASA along with multiple Fortune 500 companies. Tech-X engages either through software sales, as a subcontractor, collaborator, or as consulting services. Tech-X brings to the table its 40 years of experience in accelerators, plasma, and computation, including AI. Over its 40 years of existence Tech-X has executed on $150M of awards.
As collaborator or subcontractor, Tech-X has worked with most of the DOE national laboratories, including BNL, TJNAF, ANL, LANL, LLNL, ORNL, and SLAC, as well as DoD laboratories, such as AFRL. In particular, Tech-X has led and managed national projects, such as FACETS, involving multiple national labs, universities, and industry.
As a software provider, Tech-X provides VSim. The VSim package is used for the analysis and design of accelerator components, antennas, radiation sources, electromagnetic scattering, and more. It is in use at multiple DOE labs, and it is the basis for participation in a new DoD program in computing the effects of ambient fields on microelectronics.
In addition to its capabilities in accerator physics, plasma physics, and dynamics more generally, Tech-X brings its expertise in large-scale, high-performance computing. This includes both massively parallel computing (VSim can take advantage of 10's of thousands of processors) and device (GPU) computing. Indeed, Tech-X's next release has demonstrated its unique (in EM) ability to run across multiple (>8) GPUs with high parallel efficiency. This software can further be used to in design and optimization with its adjoint computation capabilities. |
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| | University of Tennessee | Vladimir Sobes | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Sobes’ research covers a broad spectrum of reactor physics. Research interests currently span four major areas from nuclear physics to reactor design. With a background in nuclear data, he continues to work on problems in the nuclear data pipeline with a particular interest in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) algorithms.
Further research projects look at improving radiation transport calculations and how to accelerate simulations of nuclear systems on modern heterogeneous computing architectures (HPC). Research in advanced and traditional nuclear reactor analysis, including Sensitivity/Uncertainty (S/U) analysis methods, continues to be of interest. Developing algorithms for autonomous design of nuclear systems is a new research area. Last but not least, the entire research portfolio is applied to the design and future operation of the Flexible Neutron Source experimental facility being built on the UT campus. |
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| | The University of Texas at Austin | Kevin Clarno | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Reactor core design and fuel cycle analysis with a focus on Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs): Our group has created a comprehensive SCALE input generation capability to setup and run all reactor physics and shielding calculations required for design and licensing of a thermal spectrum MSR that is being used for the Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR), which is being built by Natura Resources at Abilene Christian University (ACU). This can be applied and extended for the design and optimization of thermal and fast-spectrum MSRs for waste transmutation.
System optimization and economic analyses: Our group has worked on resource management and optimization of nuclear systems, including VTR fuel fabrication (material management, personnel resourcing, and optimization) and commercial reactor cost evaluations. This could be paired with a novel fuel cycle, waste separation, and disposal options.
Integrated simulation and experiments: Our group is working on the development of digital twins for nuclear and molten salt systems to enable the licensing of design innovations. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Sang-ho Kim | Accelerator Systems Section Head |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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| Oak Ridge National Laboratory operates Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source for neutron scattering experiments. The SNS accelerator complex consists of an H- injector, a 1 GeV linear accelerator (linac), an accumulator ring, and associated beam transport lines. The SNS superconducting linac is the first large-scale high energy superconducting proton linac. The SNS accelerator complex was commissioned in 2006 and provides reliable operations for neutron production. The Proton Power Upgrade (PPU) project is in progress and is in its final stage that will double the beam power capability of the SNS accelerator, from 1.4 to 2.8 megawatts by increasing beam energy and beam current, 30% and 50% respectively. Recently the SNS accelerator operated at 1.7-MW beam power with high availability following the PPU project power ramp-up plan, breaking its own world record for highest hadron beam power and is now quoted as a reference machine for Accelerator Driven Systems.
Area of Interest and capabilities:
Proton accelerator in general, accelerator reliability, local and global compensation of proton linear accelerator after a faulty condition, recovery of faulted element while running a beam (possibly using AI/ML), high power radio-frequency systems, cryomodule and cryomodule component development. |
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| | University of California Berkeley | Daniel Siefman | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Faculty member with experience in the neutronics of subcritical and critical systems using neutron noise and pulsed neutron techniques. Theoretical and experimental experience in criticality safety, materials control and accountability, radiation transport, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian data assimilation, AI/ML, and nuclear data validation. Interests include applying these techniques to accelerator driven systems for transmutation, to tackling challenges in process chemistry, to the design optimization of accelerator systems, and to criticality safety and materials control & accountability issues for ADS transmutation concepts. |
| CA |
| | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility | Rongli Geng | Department Head, SRF Science & Technology |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Area of expertise: Accelerators; Superconducting radio-frequency cavities, cryomodules, and linacs; Cryogenics; Radio frequency generation; Material coating technologies; AI/ML.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) operates a high-power (MW level) continuous-wave (CW) superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) linac facility, CEBAF, in support of fundamental nuclear physics research. Two anti-parallel SRF linacs, each with 1.1 GV acceleration voltage, are operated in the recirculation mode routinely to deliver electron beams with an energy of up to 12 GeV, to four fixed target experimental halls. Jefferson Lab has more than 30 years of high-power CW SRF linac operational experience and tracks the accelerator reliability by maintaining a downtime database. The lab’s SRF Science and Technology Institute offers a comprehensive range of SRF S&T expertise and unique capabilities in the areas of SRF materials science, cavity surface processing, material coating, cavity design and prototyping, SRF cryomodule design, RF testing at cryogenic temperatures of SRF cavities and cryomodules, RF generation with magnetrons, and, along with other departments in the areas of beam test and operation of SRF cavities and cryomodules, application of AI/ML to reliable SRF cavity and linac operations. Jefferson Lab, in partner with ORNL, designed and delivered the proton SRF linac cavities and cryomodules for SNS in the early 2000’s as well as the recent SNS power upgrade project. The lab participated a study of the accelerator technology for accelerator driven transmutation and energy production, which delivered in 2010 a report titled “Accelerator and Target Technology for Accelerator Driven Transmutation and Energy Production” (doi:10.2172/1847382). The SRF accelerator science and engineering expertise offered by Jefferson Lab include those related to material coating technologies, accelerators, cryogenic, and radio frequency generation, and integrated test of SRF linac components at cryogenic temperatures. Inquiries of teaming interest will be routed to the qualified subject area experts in SRF Science and Technology Institute or other organizations of Jefferson Lab. |
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| | Pendulum Electromagntics, Inc. | John Gatsis | President |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Pendulum Electromagnetics, Incorporated (PendEl) is a small, but technologically sophisticated operation in Raleigh, NC whose primary activity is the design, fabrication, and repair of vacuum electron devices (VEDs), with special expertise in high-power CW and pulse traveling wave tubes (TWT). Because the nature of these devices encompasses just about every facet of the physical sciences, PendEl is well-equipped to tackle any project where expertise in high vacuum, precision fabrication, furnace operations, RF induction, high voltage, electronics, and radio frequency technologies are critical to the effort.
Core Competencies
• High power CW and pulse traveling wave tubes:
We have extensive experience in the design and fabrication of high power CW and pulse TWTs and offer a suite of unique PPM CW and Pulse L-Band devices.
• High perveance electron gun design:
We can design a wide range of high uP egun solutions ranging from a simple uP=1 Pierce diode to a uP=11 hollow beam device. We also offer a variety of gridded designs.
• Vacuum electron device repair:
Our team has performed on a number of high profile TWT and klystron repair and refurbishment efforts effectively providing new tube performance and longevity at half the price.
• Fabrication Technologies:
We are experts at hydrogen and vacuum brazing, precision TIG and laser welding, fixture design, RF induction brazing, and high vacuum technology.
• RF and Microwave Test and Measurement:
Our test and measurement expertise is guided by decades of experience making high power measurements at RF and microwave frequencies.
PendEl has a 30-year history of delivering high quality and effective performance to myriad customers both domestic and international. Satisfied customers include U.S. Navy, Jefferson Lab (DoE), Applied Systems Engineering, Communications and Power Industries, Raytheon, Big Crow Program Office, and Teledyne Microwave Systems just to name a few. |
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| | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Wolfram Fischer | Chair Collider-Accelerator Department |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Area of expertise: Particle Accelerators - Contact: Wolfram Fischer, Chair Collider-Accelerator Department
(i) design of hadron accelerators and accelerator subsystem (ii) subsystem expertise in high-intensity high-brightness sources, radio frequency systems, laser systems, magnets, power supplies, vacuum systems, instrumentation and controls (including ML)
(iii) operation of an hadron accelerator complex consisting of 200 MeV H- Linac, Booster, AGS and RHIC for nuclear physics basic research, isotope production and space radiation studies
Area of expertise: Nuclear engineering, materials under extreme energy and corrosion environments, and nuclear data.
Contact: Alejandro Sonzogni, Chair Nuclear Science and Technology Department
(i) probabilistic risk assessment (ii) radioactive release & consequences (iii) nuclear reactor systems evaluation & safety, (iv) human factor analysis, (v) nuclear safeguards and forensics, (vi) synchrotron light source experiments, (vii) recommended nuclear data libraries, (viii) nuclear reactions modelling, (ix) gamma spectroscopy, (x) neutron-induced cross sections on fission products . |
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