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DOE Awards $5 Million for Second Phase of Advanced Reactor Experiment Designs
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded a total of $5 million to Radiant Industries, Inc. and Westinghouse to progress their microreactor designs for testing in the new Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed at Idaho National Laboratory.
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DOE Hosting Informational Webinar for Capacity Building for Energy Assets
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is hosting a Capacity Building for Energy Assets Informational Webinar. There will be many discussions to explore capacity building through new alternatives such as (but not limited to) data centers, nuclear power, and critical mineral processing to maintain jobs and the tax base while decarbonizing the economy, while also…
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DOE Announces 3 Million for New Initiative to Support and Expand America’s Industrial Decarbonization Workforce
September 16, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), in collaboration with the Office of Technology Transitions, today announced $3 million for a new initiative to help grow the readiness of the workforce needed to decarbonize the U.S. industrial sector. The Industrial Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, and Decarbonization (ISEED) Collaborative will…
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Three Mile Island, Notorious in Nuclear Power’s Past, May Herald Its Future
The concrete cooling towers that rise from a sliver of land south of Pennsylvania’s capital became symbols nearly a half-century ago of the risks of nuclear energy. Now, a plan to restart one of the two reactors at Three Mile Island is at the leading edge of efforts to greatly expand the country’s reliance on…
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TCF Base CLIMR Lab Call Offers Critical Commercialization Support for National Laboratories, Plants, and Sites
October 17, 2024 – Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Base Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call. This lab call represents collaboration among 14 DOE program offices and OTT, demonstrating DOE’s dedication to deploy lasting energy solutions from our renown National Lab, plant, and sites. Funded by the Base Annual…
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Research Evaluates Transitioning from Coal to Nuclear Energy
October 2024 – Researchers are engaging directly with communities to learn more about local opinions and how to build social and cultural metrics into their energy-planning analysis. That’s work that’s also being done at ORNL, where the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) works with individual sites and utilities to run economic analyses and…
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GEN III+ Small Modular Reactor Pathway to Deployment Funding Opportunity
October 16, 2024 – As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today opened applications for up to $900 million in funding to support the initial domestic deployment of Generation III+ (Gen III+) small modular reactor (SMR) technologies.
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Nuclear Safety Training and Workforce Development Program
September 30, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $100 million in funding to establish a nuclear safety training and workforce development program. Job growth in the U.S. nuclear energy sector is projected to triple by 2050 thanks to investments made by the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America Agenda and the long-term…
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NSUF Awards 19 Rapid Turnaround Experiments
September 25, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy awarded 19 Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) Rapid Turnaround Experiment (RTE) projects Sept. 23. The 2024 third call RTE awards, totaling approximately $1 million, were granted to 19 principal investigators from different institutions including universities and industry. Each project supports the advancement…
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GAIN Announces Fourth Round FY 2024 Nuclear Energy Voucher Recipients
September 24, 2024 – The Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) announced today that four companies will be provided a GAIN Nuclear Energy (NE) Voucher to accelerate the innovation and application of advanced nuclear technologies. NE vouchers provide advanced nuclear technology innovators with access to the extensive nuclear research capabilities and expertise available across…