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As the United States aging fleet of nuclear reactors approach the end other their lifetimes, a new generation of nuclear reactors (Generation IV) are being developed to ensure national energy security without emissions or pollutants as a byproduct. However, there are many technological hurdles associated with the extreme corrosive environments required by molten salt reactor designs. This presents ...

For the foreseeable future, the Nation’s energy demand will continue to come largely from indigenous fossil energy resources and hydrocarbon fuels. Specifically waste coal plus other opportunity fuels need to be utilized as a feedstock to eliminate a waste stream and optimized to maximize energy yield and cleanly minimize pollutant emissions. Modular equipment is needed for installation in coal ...

Atomically precise manufacturing is an emerging manufacturing technology in which materials, structures, devices, and finished goods are fabricated such that every atom is positioned at an exactly-specified location relative to the other atoms. However, two factors limiting this technology are the low fabrication yields of probes sharp enough to perform atomically precise manufacturing, and the sh ...

Millions of dollars are spent every year in generating the tons of data that are necessary for addressing nuclear physics grand challenge problems at DOE facilities. Due to inherent technical and financial limitations at the “last- mile” of the data delivery pipeline, only a small fraction of these expensive Peta bytes of data is available for immediate access by end-users at any given time. T ...

The chemical industry is seeking new domestic feedstocks that are independent of imported oil. Waste CO2 is an abundant and low-cost domestic source of carbon for making chemicals but there is a need for new technologies to cost-effectively capture and convert CO2 into useful materials. The objective of this project will be to develop an economically viable process that converts waste CO2 from sou ...

With the continuous growth of hydraulic fracking, the volume of fracking wastewater that needs to be treated prior to disposal is also growing and is a major challenge and concern for society. The improper treatment of wastewater prior to disposal has multiple consequences to the environment, including contamination to the soil and drinking water source.The recycling and reuse of water and chemica ...

The overall objective of the project is to develop a process for the manufacture of conductive inks using U.S.coal as a primary feedstock.Minus 100 LLC, in collaboration with existing graphite manufacturers and ink formulators, will develop new or improved methods of manufacturing conductive ink products using coal as a primary feedstock.There are existing commercial markets for conductive inks ($ ...

Two main problems are targeted by the proposed work: (1) the underutilization of coal, a valuable natural resource, has led to a catastrophic drop in employment within the coal industry ecosystem in specific geographic areas in the country; and (2) the need within the insurance-driven roof replacement market for a suitable, light weight, low cost, high durability roofing material.These problems wi ...

FPoliSolutions, LLC proposes to develop and commercialize an integrated data and simulation management framework to reduce power plant operating costs.FPoliSolutions would build from the current RAVEN technology recently developed by Idaho National Lab for the purposes of commercializing an integrated data and simulation management framework for nuclear power plants operation costs reduction.RAVEN ...

Thermochemical processing via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is capable of processing a broad range of feedstocks, has a favorable net energy ratio, and produces an energy-dense liquid biooil product.However, there is an obstacle with current HTL processes that has hampered the adoption of this technology—the HTL process produces a considerable amount of aqueous organic byproducts and HTL oil r ...