Opportunity ID: 324312

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 31310020K0002
Funding Opportunity Title: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant, Faculty Development Grant, and Trade School and Community College Scholarship Grant, Fiscal Year (FY) 2020
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Education
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Assistance Listings: 77.008 — U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 2
Posted Date: Feb 10, 2020
Last Updated Date: Apr 01, 2020
Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 10, 2020
Current Closing Date for Applications: May 08, 2020
Archive Date: Jun 07, 2020
Estimated Total Program Funding: $11,000,000
Award Ceiling: $450,000
Award Floor: $150,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: Private institutions of higher education
Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: • Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education• Private Institutions of Higher Education• Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)• Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)• Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions• Predominately Black Institutions (PBIs)• Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AAPIs)

Additional Information

Agency Name: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Description:

The NRC is interested in institutions and technologies that will enhance the NRC’s transition as a 

modern, risk-informed regulator. The challenge areas below are of interest to the NRC and are 

provided for your awareness/consideration.

• Advanced non-light water reactors (e.g., material degradation, safety systems, non- traditional 

fuel concepts, safety systems)

o Heat transfer and fluid flow in molten salts and liquid metal coolants

o Physical properties and chemistry of molten salts, including tritium production

o Compatibility of reactors components with salt

o Corrosion tolerance and criterial for reactor components in salt, sodium, or high- temperature 

gas environments

o Graphite aging and degradation

o Modeling and simulation of steady-state and transient behavior of microreactors

o Operational and siting health physics and radiation protection dose calculations and modeling 

associated with advanced non-LWR

• Probabilistic Risk Assessment (e.g., human reliability analysis, organizational factors, natural 

hazards risk, common cause failures, crediting recovery of failed equipment, implementing 

alternative strategies to restore safety function, and approaches or methods to support the use of 

success paths in risk-informed decision-making)

•   Fire Risk Analysis

• Innovative radiation detection technologies for minimizing groundwater contamination at nuclear 

power plants.

•  Nuclear-safety related text mining analytics, and block chain technologies

• Fuels and Neutronics (e.g., nuclear data, lattice/core physics, transport, shielding criticality 

safety, and sensitivity uncertainty methods and analysis)

o Accident tolerant, high-burnup, and high-enrichment fuel modeling and performance

o Accelerated fuel qualification

o Modeling and simulation of metallic and Tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel

• Thermal-hydraulics (e.g., two-phase flow and heat transfer, post-critical heat flux phenomena, 

fluid mechanics, experimental programs, multi-physics methods, or computation)

o The development and benchmarking of multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations in 

reactor fuel bundle geometries to facilitate modeling of reactor accident scenarios using 3D CFD 

methods.

o Sub-channel thermal-hydraulics.

o Quantification of code uncertainty and uncertainty methods.

• Consequence and Emergency Preparedness (e.g., radionuclide dispersion and migration, long-term 

post-accident recovery health and economic impacts)

o Benchmarking of simplified methods for near-field atmospheric dispersion affected by building 

wakes against state-of-the-art dispersion modeling methods

o Methods for estimating costs and durations for post-accident cleanup and recovery following 

severe accidents

• Materials engineering (e.g., metallurgy, corrosion science, fracture mechanics, advanced 

manufacturing, modeling, non-destructive examination)

• Applications of artificial intelligence and advanced sensors for in-service inspection of reactor 

components

•   Natural hazards assessment (seismic, flooding, and high-wind hazards)

o Flooding (e.g., probabilistic flood hazard assessment)

• Digital instrumentation and controls (e.g., systems design, software engineering, hazards 

analysis)

•   Cybersecurity

•   Characterization, handling, storage, or disposal of waste streams (including used fuel) from 

nuclear power plants (including the various advanced reactor designs that are currently under 

development.

Link to Additional Information:
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

MLita Carr

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Phone 301-415-6869
Email:mlita.carr@nrc.gov

Version History

Version Modification Description Updated Date
Submission date extended due to COVID-19 Apr 01, 2020
Feb 10, 2020

DISPLAYING: Synopsis 2

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 31310020K0002
Funding Opportunity Title: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant, Faculty Development Grant, and Trade School and Community College Scholarship Grant, Fiscal Year (FY) 2020
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Education
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Assistance Listings: 77.008 — U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 2
Posted Date: Feb 10, 2020
Last Updated Date: Apr 01, 2020
Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 10, 2020
Current Closing Date for Applications: May 08, 2020
Archive Date: Jun 07, 2020
Estimated Total Program Funding: $11,000,000
Award Ceiling: $450,000
Award Floor: $150,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: Private institutions of higher education
Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: • Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education• Private Institutions of Higher Education• Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)• Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)• Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions• Predominately Black Institutions (PBIs)• Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AAPIs)

Additional Information

Agency Name: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Description:

The NRC is interested in institutions and technologies that will enhance the NRC’s transition as a 

modern, risk-informed regulator. The challenge areas below are of interest to the NRC and are 

provided for your awareness/consideration.

• Advanced non-light water reactors (e.g., material degradation, safety systems, non- traditional 

fuel concepts, safety systems)

o Heat transfer and fluid flow in molten salts and liquid metal coolants

o Physical properties and chemistry of molten salts, including tritium production

o Compatibility of reactors components with salt

o Corrosion tolerance and criterial for reactor components in salt, sodium, or high- temperature 

gas environments

o Graphite aging and degradation

o Modeling and simulation of steady-state and transient behavior of microreactors

o Operational and siting health physics and radiation protection dose calculations and modeling 

associated with advanced non-LWR

• Probabilistic Risk Assessment (e.g., human reliability analysis, organizational factors, natural 

hazards risk, common cause failures, crediting recovery of failed equipment, implementing 

alternative strategies to restore safety function, and approaches or methods to support the use of 

success paths in risk-informed decision-making)

•   Fire Risk Analysis

• Innovative radiation detection technologies for minimizing groundwater contamination at nuclear 

power plants.

•  Nuclear-safety related text mining analytics, and block chain technologies

• Fuels and Neutronics (e.g., nuclear data, lattice/core physics, transport, shielding criticality 

safety, and sensitivity uncertainty methods and analysis)

o Accident tolerant, high-burnup, and high-enrichment fuel modeling and performance

o Accelerated fuel qualification

o Modeling and simulation of metallic and Tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel

• Thermal-hydraulics (e.g., two-phase flow and heat transfer, post-critical heat flux phenomena, 

fluid mechanics, experimental programs, multi-physics methods, or computation)

o The development and benchmarking of multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations in 

reactor fuel bundle geometries to facilitate modeling of reactor accident scenarios using 3D CFD 

methods.

o Sub-channel thermal-hydraulics.

o Quantification of code uncertainty and uncertainty methods.

• Consequence and Emergency Preparedness (e.g., radionuclide dispersion and migration, long-term 

post-accident recovery health and economic impacts)

o Benchmarking of simplified methods for near-field atmospheric dispersion affected by building 

wakes against state-of-the-art dispersion modeling methods

o Methods for estimating costs and durations for post-accident cleanup and recovery following 

severe accidents

• Materials engineering (e.g., metallurgy, corrosion science, fracture mechanics, advanced 

manufacturing, modeling, non-destructive examination)

• Applications of artificial intelligence and advanced sensors for in-service inspection of reactor 

components

•   Natural hazards assessment (seismic, flooding, and high-wind hazards)

o Flooding (e.g., probabilistic flood hazard assessment)

• Digital instrumentation and controls (e.g., systems design, software engineering, hazards 

analysis)

•   Cybersecurity

•   Characterization, handling, storage, or disposal of waste streams (including used fuel) from 

nuclear power plants (including the various advanced reactor designs that are currently under 

development.

Link to Additional Information:
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

MLita Carr

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Phone 301-415-6869
Email:mlita.carr@nrc.gov

DISPLAYING: Synopsis 1

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 31310020K0002
Funding Opportunity Title: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant, Faculty Development Grant, and Trade School and Community College Scholarship Grant, Fiscal Year (FY) 2020
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Education
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Assistance Listings: 77.008 — U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 1
Posted Date: Feb 10, 2020
Last Updated Date: Feb 10, 2020
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Current Closing Date for Applications: Apr 10, 2020
Archive Date: May 10, 2020
Estimated Total Program Funding: $11,000,000
Award Ceiling: $450,000
Award Floor: $150,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: • Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
• Private Institutions of Higher Education
• Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
• Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
• Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
• Predominately Black Institutions (PBIs)
• Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AAPIs)

Additional Information

Agency Name: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Description:

The NRC is interested in institutions and technologies that will enhance the NRC’s transition as a 

modern, risk-informed regulator. The challenge areas below are of interest to the NRC and are 

provided for your awareness/consideration.

• Advanced non-light water reactors (e.g., material degradation, safety systems, non- traditional 

fuel concepts, safety systems)

o Heat transfer and fluid flow in molten salts and liquid metal coolants

o Physical properties and chemistry of molten salts, including tritium production

o Compatibility of reactors components with salt

o Corrosion tolerance and criterial for reactor components in salt, sodium, or high- temperature 

gas environments

o Graphite aging and degradation

o Modeling and simulation of steady-state and transient behavior of microreactors

o Operational and siting health physics and radiation protection dose calculations and modeling 

associated with advanced non-LWR

• Probabilistic Risk Assessment (e.g., human reliability analysis, organizational factors, natural 

hazards risk, common cause failures, crediting recovery of failed equipment, implementing 

alternative strategies to restore safety function, and approaches or methods to support the use of 

success paths in risk-informed decision-making)

•   Fire Risk Analysis

• Innovative radiation detection technologies for minimizing groundwater contamination at nuclear 

power plants.

•  Nuclear-safety related text mining analytics, and block chain technologies

• Fuels and Neutronics (e.g., nuclear data, lattice/core physics, transport, shielding criticality 

safety, and sensitivity uncertainty methods and analysis)

o Accident tolerant, high-burnup, and high-enrichment fuel modeling and performance

o Accelerated fuel qualification

o Modeling and simulation of metallic and Tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel

• Thermal-hydraulics (e.g., two-phase flow and heat transfer, post-critical heat flux phenomena, 

fluid mechanics, experimental programs, multi-physics methods, or computation)

o The development and benchmarking of multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations in 

reactor fuel bundle geometries to facilitate modeling of reactor accident scenarios using 3D CFD 

methods.

o Sub-channel thermal-hydraulics.

o Quantification of code uncertainty and uncertainty methods.

• Consequence and Emergency Preparedness (e.g., radionuclide dispersion and migration, long-term 

post-accident recovery health and economic impacts)

o Benchmarking of simplified methods for near-field atmospheric dispersion affected by building 

wakes against state-of-the-art dispersion modeling methods

o Methods for estimating costs and durations for post-accident cleanup and recovery following 

severe accidents

• Materials engineering (e.g., metallurgy, corrosion science, fracture mechanics, advanced 

manufacturing, modeling, non-destructive examination)

• Applications of artificial intelligence and advanced sensors for in-service inspection of reactor 

components

•   Natural hazards assessment (seismic, flooding, and high-wind hazards)

o Flooding (e.g., probabilistic flood hazard assessment)

• Digital instrumentation and controls (e.g., systems design, software engineering, hazards 

analysis)

•   Cybersecurity

•   Characterization, handling, storage, or disposal of waste streams (including used fuel) from 

nuclear power plants (including the various advanced reactor designs that are currently under 

development.

Link to Additional Information:
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

MLita Carr

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Phone 301-415-6869
Email:mlita.carr@nrc.gov

Folder 324312 Full Announcement-Full Announcement -> FY20 IUP (Education Program) FOA (Final) v2.pdf

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Folder 324312 Other Supporting Documents-Other Supporting Documents -> FY20 IUP (Education Program) FOA (INSTRUCTIONS) (FInal) v2.pdf

Folder 324312 Other Supporting Documents-Other Supporting Documents -> FY20 FedConnect_Ready_Set_Go (Final).pdf

Folder 324312 Other Supporting Documents-Other Supporting Documents -> FY20 IUP (Education Program) FOA (INSTRUCTIONS) (FInal).pdf

Folder 324312 Other Supporting Documents-Other Supporting Documents -> FY20 FedConnect Letter (Final).pdf

Folder 324312 Other Supporting Documents-Other Supporting Documents -> FY20 CERTIFICATION REGARDING LOBBYING (Final).pdf

Packages

Agency Contact Information: MLita Carr
Grants and Contracts Specialist
Phone 301-415-6869
Email: mlita.carr@nrc.gov
Who Can Apply: Organization Applicants

Assistance Listing Number Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions
PKG00258242 Feb 10, 2020 May 08, 2020 View

Package 1

Mandatory forms

324312 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf

324312 SF424A-1.0.pdf

324312 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf

324312 AttachmentForm_1_2-1.2.pdf

Optional forms

324312 SFLLL_1_2-1.2.pdf

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