NSUF awards 28 Rapid Turnaround Experiment proposals

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) has awarded 28 proposals to support the advancement of nuclear science and technology by providing access to world class capabilities at no cost to the researcher. This is the second award for FY 2023.

28 new Rapid Turnaround Experiment (RTE) projects, totaling approximately $1.74M, have been awarded. These awards went to 19 principal investigators from universities and 9 from national laboratories.

The NSUF competitively selected these projects from a pool of quality RTE proposals submitted during the solicitation period. Proposals were evaluated based on a variety of factors including technical approach, mission relevance, and scientific-technical merit.

Full Name

Institution

Aaron Kohnert

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Allison Probert

University of Florida

Arthur Motta

Pennsylvania State University

Boopathy Kombaiah

Idaho National Laboratory

Caleb Massey

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Calvin Parkin

Sandia National Laboratories

Charles Hirst

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Donna Guillen

Idaho National Laboratory

Elizabeth Getto

United States Naval Academy

Emily Proehl

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Ge Yang

North Carolina State University

Hyosim Kim

Los Alamos National Laboratory

James Edgar

Kansas State University

James Spicer

Johns Hopkins University

James Stubbins

University of Illinois

Janelle Wharry

Purdue University

Jian Gan

Idaho National Laboratory

Jingfan Yang

Purdue University

John Snitzer

Purdue University

Jonathan Balog

Pennsylvania State University

Lance Snead

Stony Brook University

Lingfeng He

North Carolina State University

Ramprashad Prabhakaran

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Stephen Taller

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Takuya Yamamoto

University of California-Santa Barbara

Tanner Mauseth

Idaho State University

Tianyi Chen

Oregon State University

Zhibin Yu

Florida State University

NSUF recipients do not receive direct financial awards. Access to state of the art experimental irradiation testing, post irradiation examination, INL high performance computing, and technical assistance for the design and execution of projects is provided at no cost to the recipients.

Prospective researchers are encouraged to request samples from the Nuclear Fuels and Materials Library. The NSUF will give special consideration to Principal Investigators from Minority Serving Institutions.

The NSUF, managed by Idaho National Laboratory, provides unparalleled opportunities for nuclear energy researchers. Through the RTE solicitation, researchers can access capabilities such as irradiation, post irradiation examination, beamline, and high performance computing equipment. RTEs are also accompanied with the expertise necessary to advance the understanding of irradiation effects in nuclear fuels and materials in support of DOE-NE’s mission.

The next RTE call has opened and will close on June 28 at 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time. The NSUF endeavors to balance the distribution of funds in a single call to impact a broad group of researchers. To do so, the NSUF may limit the number of awards to a single partner, a single institution, a single research group, self-applications, awards to non-US institutions, and may decline proposals with very large budgets out of proportion to the guidelines. The NSUF may award CAES-only or HPC-only applications, even if their scores are below the threshold for the RTE call. The NSUF may also restrict awards to applicants who have a poor record of completing awarded RTEs within the nine-month period and/or have a poor record of timely publication and/or acknowledgment of NSUF-funded research.

Find current and past awards here. Visit NSUF at https://nsuf.inl.gov.