The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has put $7 million in funding up for grabs for nuclear energy programs at U.S. universities, the agency announced this week.
The University Nuclear Research Infrastructure Revitalization grant will account for almost all of this round funding at a single $6-million award, DOE wrote in the release. The funding is available for improving or fixing up existing nuclear-energy-research infrastructure, according to a DOE press release released Wednesday.
The University Reactor Sharing and Outreach Program grant, meanwhile, is geared toward sharing existing university research reactors with institutions that don’t have a reactor of their own. That could include elementary, middle and high schools, DOE wrote in the release. The agency could award as many as five $200,000 grants under this program.
Applications for both grants are due by 6 p.m. Eastern time on Feb. 14, according to the agency’s press release. The grants are part of DOE’s Nuclear Energy University Program.
