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DE-FOA-0002516: Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research

Closed Closed February 23, 2022 Opportunity DE-FOA-0002516 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Silcon Carbide Cladding Lead Test Rod Development-Phase 1 (DE-FOA-0003577). Status: Closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left). It is in our archive of Idaho Field Office notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$5.0 million
• Total funding$77.0 million
• Expected awards76
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, small businesses and businesses.

This CINR FOA is open to U.S. universities, national laboratories, and industry. The application must originate from the lead institution. All lead PIs must have an active account in the NEUP.gov website submittal system. Research consortiums may be composed of diverse institutions including academia, national laboratories, non-profit research institutes, industry/utilities, and international partners. Research teams should strive to achieve the synergies that arise when individuals with forefront expertise in different methodologies, technologies, disciplines, and areas of content knowledge approach a problem together, overcoming impasses by considering the issue from fresh angles and discovering novel solutions. This CINR FOA provides award opportunities to U.S. owned entities. DOE has restricted eligibility for award in accordance with 2 Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) 910.126(b). This eligibility restriction does not apply to subrecipients, subawards, vendors, or team members of the prime/lead applicant.DOE-NE strongly encourages diversifying its research portfolio through effective teams and/or partnerships with MSIs, and HBCUs, and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) which may receive funding support from the project. While international partners are encouraged to participate, no U.S. government funding will be provided to entities incorporated outside of the United States or to a foreign government or any entity owned or controlled by a foreign government. Foreign government ownership means direct ownership of the applicant entity, its parent organization (e.g., trust, holding company, corporation, etc.), and any and all other entities in the corporate structure regardless of the applicant entity’s place of incorporation and operation. DOE-NE will evaluate the benefit and contribution of any such proposed partnerships as part of its program relevancy evaluation and scoring.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration awards averaged $7.0 million; this notice allows up to $5.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (55% over five years) went to businesses.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

The Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy’s (DOE-NE) mission is to advance U.S. nuclear power in order to meet the nation's energy needs by: 1. Enhancing the long-term viability and competitiveness of the existing U.S. reactor fleet; 2. Developing an advanced reactor pipeline; and, 3. Implementing and maintaining the national strategic fuel cycle and supply chain infrastructure. Collectively, all NE-sponsored activities support the Department’s priorities to combat the climate crisis, create clean energy jobs with the free and fair chance to join a union and bargain collectively, and promote equity and environmental justice by delivering innovative clean energy technologies for nuclear energy systems. All applications submitted under this CINR FOA must demonstrate a strong tie to at least one of these three mission priorities and highlight how it supports the DOE priorities. NE conducts crosscutting nuclear energy research and development (R&D) and associated infrastructure support activities to develop innovative technologies that offer the promise of dramatically improved performance for its mission needs as stated above, while maximizing the impact of DOE resources. DOE has established a Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) team, which has been working closely with the advanced nuclear design community to identify R&D objectives and work scopes that may be appropriately addressed through DOE programs. Several of the work scopes contain explicit language as guidance; however, there are many additional work scopes that, at least tangentially, address needs identified in technology specific workshops. Work scopes that may be addressed in activities funded under this CINR FOA are identified in Part IX, Appendices A-C of this CINR FOA. Generally speaking, applications that offer flexibility or provision for addressing measurements, materials, and conditions relevant to private sector developers of fast-spectrum reactors (lead-cooled, sodium cooled, and gas cooled), molten salt reactors (MSR), or high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGCR) are encouraged. NE strives to promote integrated and collaborative research conducted by national laboratory, university, industry, and international partners under the direction of DOE-NE’s programs, and to deploy innovative nuclear energy technologies to the market in order to meet the strategic goals and optimize the benefits of nuclear energy.

Category: Energy, Opportunity Zone Benefits.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, DE-FOA-0003577, which is open now.

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