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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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Develop ASME Section III Division 5 Design Rules for Elevated Temperature Cladded Class A Type 316 Stainless Steel Components, Kairos Power
Kairos collaborated with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to develop design rules and associated materials data for the design of cladded components made of Type 316 stainless steel and cladded by non-code qualified corrosion resistant materials.
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) Preliminary Safeguards Assessment, Flibe Energy
The objective of this project was to provide FEI with design recommendations for the implementation of nuclear material accountancy and enable FEI to meet its sustainability and operational goals for the LFTR.
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Enabling System Technologies to Improve the Economics and Performance of Existing LWRs and Advanced BWR Plants: Improving Off-gas System Performance, General Electric-Hitachi
General Electric-Hitachi, Argonne National Laboratory and the Idaho National Laboratory provided improved operational guidance for the current and advanced BWR off-gas system designs and identified off-gas system design improvements for use in BWR SMRs.
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Advanced Fuel Stability Analysis Using High-Fidelity LARGE-SCALE Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations, Framatome
The objective of this project was to improve nuclear power generation’s safety and competitiveness by providing robust information about the flow patterns and formations throughout the simulated fluid domain.
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Plasma Separation Process Feasibility Study for the Commercial Enrichment of Gadolinium-157, Exelon Generation
The objective of this project was to determine if currently available technology can be used to modernize the PSP to a level of cost-effectiveness to realize the potential cost saving in the nuclear fuel cycle.
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Integrated Nuclear Hybrid Energy System, Eastman Chemical Co.
General Electric-Hitachi, Argonne National Laboratory and the Idaho National Laboratory provided improved operational guidance for the current and advanced BWR off-gas system designs and identified off-gas system design improvements for use in BWR SMRs.
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Nuclear Cybersecurity Initiative, NexDefense Inc.
This project will enable NexDefense to evaluate their existing software on a production nuclear test bed, hence laying the path for future commercial adoption.
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Quantify Sodium Fluoride/Beryllium Fluoride Salt Properties for Liquid Fueled Fluoride Molten Salt Reactors, ThorCon USA
The objective of this project was to measure thermophysical property data for molten salt compositions characteristic of those proposed for use in the ThorCon molten salt reactor. The measured property data support reactor design activities and safety case development.
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Characterization of the Radiation Stability of Molten Nitrate/Nitrite Salts for use as Heat Transfer Fluids in Nuclear Reactor Power Plants, Yellowstone Energy
The objective of this project is to complete the necessary irradiation testing required and accelerate the retirement of risk related to qualification of nuclear environment nitrate salts. It is expected that the results of this project will significantly advance the MNSR design by qualifying the radiation stability of nitrate salt coolants in a nuclear environment.
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Radiation Testing for Nuclear Inspection Systems, Vega Wave Systems
The objective of this project was to test the Enduray Vision System developed by Vega Wave Systems Inc., using 3 MeV X-rays generated by the Van de Graaff system, to assess the radiation tolerance of the system. These tests showed that the Enduray Vision System was 10× more radiation-hard than the best available commercial competitor…
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Advancement of Instrumentation to Monitor IMSR® Core Temperature and Power Level, Terrestrial Energy USA
The objective of this project is to develop Terrestrial Energy USA’s high temperature gamma thermometer (HTGT) that will accurately determine IMSR® power levels under all normal and off-normal reactor operating conditions. The HTGT will ensure safe and effective control of IMSR® reactor-core power and will be applicable to other MSR designs.