Completed NE Voucher Awards
The objective of this project was to evaluate different heat exchanger designs specified by CompRex using a lab-developed Fortran code to model heat exchange and pressure drop performance.
Creare, LLC, worked with researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to identify and test initial concepts for coating materials to be used in testing a continuous casting process aimed at reducing the cost of fuel pin production compared with conventional fabrication methods for metal fuel.
Investigation of Materials for Continuous Casting of Metallic Nuclear Fuel, Creare LLC. Read More »
The objective of this project was to obtain actual thermophysical properties of fuel salts using modern experimental methods rather than close approximations based on historical data and to investigate the fuel salts’ thermal conductivities, viscosities, and densities.
Verification of Molten-Salt Properties at High Temperatures, Terrestrial Energy USA Read More »
The objective of this project was to provide Transatomic Power Corp. (TAP) with a neutronic and fuel cycle analysis of the company’s liquid-fueled molten-salt reactor (MSR) core design.
Oklo Inc. (Oklo) partnered with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to accelerate the fuel manufacturing process to support Oklo’s path to commercialization. The project involved compiling and assessing information about legacy metal fuel data and fabrication from EBR-II, the liquid-metalcooled fast reactor that operated for 30 years at INL.
Legacy Metal Fuel Data Exploration for Commercial Scale-up, Oklo Inc. Read More »
