In November 2015, DOE announced it is establishing the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) to provide the nuclear energy community with access to the technical, regulatory, and financial support necessary to move new or advanced nuclear reactor designs toward commercialization while ensuring the continued safe, reliable, and economic operation of the existing nuclear fleet.
GAIN will provide the nuclear community with a single point of access to the broad range of capabilities – people, facilities, materials, and data – across the DOE complex and its National Lab capabilities. Focused research opportunities and dedicated industry engagement will also be important components of GAIN, ensuring that DOE-sponsored activities are impactful to companies working to realize the full potential of nuclear energy.
As part of this effort, DOE is also publishing the Nuclear Energy Infrastructure database (NEID), which provides a catalogue of existing nuclear energy related infrastructure that will enhance transparency and support nuclear community engagement through GAIN. For more information about GAIN visit: https://gain.inl.gov/SitePages/Home.aspx.
For more information about the Administration’s strategy to ensure nuclear energy remains a vibrant component of the U.S. Clean Energy Strategy visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/06/fact-sheet-obama-....