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Development of Casting Techniques for ẟ-phase Uranium-Zirconium Alloys, Lightbridge Corp

The casting, processing, and shipping of HALEU alloys, like those being developed by Lightbridge, require the ability to experiment with higher temperatures in a facility that can perform these functions. The goal of this project was to identify an appropriate casting method (i.e., crucible and coating combination) that results in an acceptable impurity concentration in the as-cast ingot.

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Improvements to Passive Heat Removal Systems in SAS4A/SASSYS-1

For this project, ARC will work with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to enhance the SAS modeling capabilities for passive heat removal systems, including the generic RVACS model and the DRACS heat exchanger models. These enhancements will enable ARC to recover safety margins and have a better representation of the system’s response during long-term cooling events.

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Independent Code-to-Code Verification of Aalo-1 Fuel and Core Performance

Aalo will partner with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to perform independent analyses on fuel performance using the BISON code as well as thermal-hydraulics using RELAP5-3D. This work will support the independent code-to-code verification to support Aalo’s future licensing efforts.

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Metatomic Molten Salt Immersed Hydrochlorination Subsystem Characterization

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) will provide the requisite expertise and spent fuel handling capability to enable the laboratory scale assessment and demonstration. The data generated at laboratory scale would provide confirmation of feasibility and basis for scaling to an industrial scale capability.

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Assessment of NuScale SMR Steam Heat Augmentation for Chemical Plant Decarbonization

NuScale will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to perform a techno-economic analysis of a NuScale plant with a novel heat augmentation system for application to a commercial scale chemical production facility to help understand the functional requirements for the system and determine best ways to integrate with the facility.

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Radiation Aging of Nuclear Power Plant Components, Analysis & Measurement Services Corp.

Under this voucher, AMS performed radiation aging of two temperature and two pressure sensors at the Gamma Irradiation Facility of the High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Dynamic Natural Convection System, Dynac Systems LLC

This Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear voucher paired DYNAC Systems with Idaho National Laboratory to evaluate the company’s Dynamic Natural Convection (DNC) system.

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An Advanced Multiphysics Simulation Capability for Radiant’s Microreactor Design and Shielding Analysis, Radiant Industries Inc.

The objective is to integrate the core and shielding analysis tools in order to design a safe and economically viable microreactor.

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Experimental and Software Validation of Integral Thermal-Hydraulic Behavior in Fuel Assemblies, Oklo Inc.

This project seeks to address 1) pressure drop behavior of a typical sodium fast reactor fuel assembly with an orifice device and 2) orifice device onset of cavitation.

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Thermal Property Measurements for an LEU-Fueled Molten Salt Reactor, Flibe Energy, Inc.

This project seeks to model and experimentally confirm the composition of two known salt systems (LiF-NaF-UF4 and LiF-NaF-ThF4) as the fuel and blanket salt for Flibe’s Lithium Fluoride Low-Enrichment Uranium Reactor (LFLEUR).

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