Past Voucher Awards
The successes and significant contributions of past GAIN NE voucher recipients have real-world impacts on our energy future. GAIN is proud to provide these nuclear innovators with a single point of access to the broad range of capabilities — people, facilities, materials, and data — across the Department of Energy’s complex and its National Lab capabilities.
Past Voucher Recipients
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Deployment of Advanced Electroanalytical Sensors in the Kairos Power Engineering Test Unit, Kairos Power
Kairos seeks to optimize electroanalytical sensors to enable stable measurements of industrial-scale FLIBE salt in the Kairos Power Engineering Test Unit (ETU). The work proposed would provide a direct benefit to the development of the HERMES reactor.
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Modeling of Two-Phase Boiling Flow and Critical Heat Flux with the Star-CCM+® and NEK-2P CFD Codes, Framatome Inc.
This project focuses on the development, implementation, and initial validation of the STAR-CCM+® user-defined functionality for the two-fluid two-phase model (2F-2P). The focus will be on modeling two-phase boiling flow in realistic fuel-bundle geometries, including specific spacer geometries.
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Deployment and Characterization Support for USNC Pilot Fuel Manufacturing Facility, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.
By leveraging Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s lab capabilities, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation will further the efficient deployment and operation of manufacturing modules at their facilities.
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Extension of Cable Electrical Assessment Techniques to Detect and Discriminate Radiation Aging on Cable Insulation Systems, Kinectrics AES
The objective of this project is to close the gap in the detection and quantification of radiation aging and combined thermal and radiation aging in nuclear cable applications using electrical test methods.
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Radiation Testing for High-Resolution, Radiation-Hardened Camera Systems, Vega Wave Systems
Vega Wave Systems has developed a camera head and needs to complete radiation testing to achieve market acceptance and verify radiation tolerance limits.
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SMR Containment Cable and EPA System, Engineered Solutions Group, LLC.
ESG has designed a cable routing system with connectors and EPA that protects cables from water exposure. This project will enable ESG to develop this technology to support current and future SMR designs.
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Development of Casting Techniques for δ-phase Uranium-Zirconium Alloys, Lightbridge Corp.
The objective of this project is to determine the optimal casting process for the Lightbridge δphase U-Zr alloy using a depleted uranium (DU) zirconium surrogate in the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL) which is located at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
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Experimental and Systems-Level Validation of Thermal-Hydraulic Behavior in SFRs, Oklo Inc.
The objective of this project is to generate high-pedigree experimental data to help to validate the systems analysis codes SAS4A/SASSYS-1 and SAM which can be used to inform advanced reactor designers on thermal-hydraulic behavior during transients as well as support licensing activities.
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Microreactor Control Drum Failure Simulation, Radiant
The objective of this project is to couple Serpent and Griffin to enable a thermal-hydraulics and neutronics multiphysics model of the transient scenario which will accelerate Radiant’s reactor design process.
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Multiphysics Design Optimization and Additive Manufacturing of Nuclear Components, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC
Westinghouse and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will use multiphysics design optimization methods and additive manufacturing to help develop new nuclear components as well as optimized replacements to existing components that are optimum for meeting design requirements and are manufacturable.
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Advanced Nuclear Fuel Pellet Designs, Exelon Nuclear
The objective of this project is to explore a number of advanced heterogenous fuel design concepts to improve the operational, safety, and economic performance of existing power plants.
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Density Measurements of Plutonium Bearing Salts via Neutron Beam Dilatometry, TerraPower LLC
The objective of this project is to determine the density of actinidemolten salt solutions using neutron dilatometry.
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RELAP5-3D Development and Assessment for Liquid-fuels Molten Salt Reactor Licensure, Natura Resources, LLC
The objective of this project is to assess the RELAP5- 3D code for application to the MSRR design and licensing pathway to resolve data limitations for both the input models for the plant design and models specific to the liquid fuel molten salt core.
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Pebble Bed Large Eddy Simulations for Lower Order Methods Benchmarking and Uncertainty Quantification Development, Kairos Power
The objective of this project is to use Large Eddy Simulations (LES) to produce numerical benchmark data that captures local velocity and temperature effects, and this data will have an immediate impact to accelerate technology development, enable economic optimization, and reduce regulatory uncertainty.
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Thermophysical Properties Measurements of NaCl-PuCl3, TerraPower LLC.
The objective of this project was to exact high quality, traceable data that quantifies composition dependencies and measurement uncertainty to inform operating conditions, which is paramount for proper design in any reactor, especially a liquid-fueled molten salt reactor.