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GAIN announces second round FY 2024 Nuclear Energy Voucher recipient

The Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) announced today that three 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 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory complex. This is the second award for FY 2024.

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Test Vehicle Development to Support Oklo’s Advanced Fuels Roadmap

Oklo, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) will partner with Idaho National Laboratory to complete pre-conceptual design work of an experimental test device that will be used in its first Aurora fast reactor to support irradiation testing of advanced fuels and materials.

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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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GAIN announces first round FY 2023 Nuclear Energy Voucher recipients

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.

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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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GAIN announces second-round FY 2021 Nuclear Energy Voucher recipients

GAIN announced today that Lightbridge Corp., Oklo Inc., and Radiant Nuclear will each be provided with a GAIN Nuclear Energy (NE) Voucher to accelerate the innovation and application of advanced nuclear technologies.

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Addressing Gaps in Legacy Data on Fuel Steel Interactions, Oklo, Inc.

To broaden the understanding of fuel-clad chemical interactions (FCCI), Oklo partnered with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to conduct an out-of-pile experimental investigation into FCCI behavior that addresses each of these variables in order to expand the operating envelopes to better align with the Aurora reactor as well as other advanced concepts.

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Accelerate Development of Industry-Relevant Features in Modern Simulation tools, Oklo Inc.

Oklo Inc. (Oklo) partnered with Argonne National Laboratory to accelerate the development of open-source and modern simulation tools. The project has an industry-wide impact since it advances the state-of-art simulation to design and build advanced reactor systems.

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Risk-Informed Mechanistic Source Term Calculations for a Compact Fast Reactor, Oklo Inc.

The objective of this project was to focus on the coupling of three high fidelity analysis codes for detailed core analysis, an analysis of the Oklo reactor design to assesses the potential for radionuclide release to the environment during accident scenarios, and an assessment and provision of relevant metal fuel data through inspection of post-irradiation examination data from past metal fuel testing. This project had two additional objectives, the experimental characterization of liquid metal heat pipe performance, failure behavior, and phenomena and the testing of generic heat pipes beyond their design limits, providing original data and insights.

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Legacy Metal Fuel Data Exploration for Commercial Scale-up, Oklo Inc.

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.

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