DOE - Office of Nuclear Energy

Fiscal year (FY) 2007 Award list

The following proposals were selected for award pending negotiation. To view an abstract of the project, click on the project title.

Project Title	Lead Organization* and Collaborators
Generation IV Nuclear Energy Initiative
An Advanced Integrated Diffusion/Transport Method for the Design, Analysis and Optimization of the Very-High Temperature Reactors	Georgia Institute of Technology*; Idaho National Laboratory; Pennsylvania State University
Implications of Graphite Radiation Damage on the Neutronic, Operational, and Safety Aspects of Very-High Temperature Reactors	North Carolina State University*; Oak Ridge National Laboratory ; Idaho National Laboratory
Experimental and CFD Analysis of Advanced Convective Cooling Systems	Texas Engineering Experiment Station*
Establishing a Scientific Basis for Optimizing Compositions, Processing Paths and Fabrication Methods for Nanostructured Ferritic Alloys for Use in Advanced Fission Energy Systems	University of California-Santa Barbara*
Materials and Design Methodology for Very High Temperature Nuclear Systems	University of Illinois-Urbana*; Stress Engineering Services
Fission Product Transport in TRISO-Coated Particle Fuels: Multi-Scale Modeling and Experiment	University of Wisconsin-Madison*
Emissivity of Candidate Materials for VHTR Applications: Role of Oxidation and Surface Modification Treatments	University of Wisconsin-Madison*
Advancing the Fundamental Understanding and Scale-up of TRISO Fuel Coaters Via Advanced Measurement and Computational Techniques	Washington University*
Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative
Optimization of Heat Exchangers	University of California Los Angeles*
Liquid Salts as Media for Process Heat Transfer from VHTRs: Forced Convective Channel Flow Thermal Hydraulics, Materials, and Coatings	University of Wisconsin-Madison*
Advanced Fuel Cycle Research and Development
Economic, Repository and Proliferation Impacts of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles	*Cornell University; University of Texas-Austin
Experimental Development and Demonstration of Ultrasonic Measurement Diagnostics for Sodium Fast Reactor Thermohydraulics	*Kansas State University
Chemistry of Transuranic Elements in Solvent Extraction Processes: Factors Controlling Redox Specialization of Pu and Np in Separation Processes	*Oregon State University; Argonne National Laboratory
Analysis of Advanced Fuel Assemblies and Core Designs for the Current and Next Generations of LWRs	*Texas Engineering; Experiment Station
Powder Metallurgy of Uranium Alloy Fuels for TRU-Burning Fast Reactors	* Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Neutronic/Thermalhydraulic Coupling Techniques for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor Simulations	*Texas Engineering Experiment Station; University of Chicago; Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique; Argonne National Laboratory
New Fission-Product Waste Forms: Development and Characterization	*University of California-Davis; Sandia National Laboratory; Eltron Research, Inc.; Brigham Young University
Identification and Analysis of Critical Gaps in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Codes Required by the SINEMA Program	* University of Cincinnati Idaho State University Idaho National Laboratory
Fundamental Processes of Coupled Radiation Damage and Mechanical Behavior in Nuclear Fuel Materials for High Temperature Reactors	*University of Florida; Idaho National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Fundamental Studies of Irradiation-Induced Defect Formation and Fission Product Dynamics in Oxide Fuels	*University of Illinois-Urbana; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Radiation-Induced Segregation and Phase Stability in Candidate Alloys for the Advanced Burner Reactor	*University of Michigan; University of California-Berkeley; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Computations for Advanced Nuclear Fuels	*University of Missouri-Columbia