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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
HR-FN-0712-EDU7
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jul 26, 2012
Creation Date:
Jul 26, 2012
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Oct 03, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Oct 03, 2012
Archive Date:
Nov 02, 2012
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Education
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$4,700,000
Award Ceiling:
$200,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
77.006
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U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Education Grant Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
-Public or State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
-Private Institutions of Higher Education
Hispanic-serving Institutions
-Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
-Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
-Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
Agency Name
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Description
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency, established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, tasked with licensing and regulating the Nations civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear material to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the NRC Nuclear Education Grant Program to support courses, studies, training, curricula, and disciplines pertaining to nuclear safety, nuclear security, nuclear environmental protection, and other fields that the Commission determines to be critical to the NRCs regulatory mission. The NRC Nuclear Education Grant Programs primary purpose is supporting and developing the educational infrastructure necessary to allow the Nation to safely advance its nuclear energy initiatives.
The NRC currently encourages curriculum development in the following technical areas:
Nuclear Engineering
Criticality safety courses for nuclear professionals
Thermal-hydraulics model development
Reactor physics
Nuclear power plant safety, licensing, and regulation
Nuclear power plant design and operations (including operating and emergency
operating procedures)
Fuel performance
Radiochemistry and Radiobiology
Health Physics
Health physics modeling
Dosimetry and measurements
Environmental transport, dissolution, and migration
Decontamination and decommissioning
Reprocessing, recycle chemistry, and technology courses
Materials and Mechanical Engineering
Welding principles, and nondestructive examination (NDE) technology
Management of aging plants (components and systems)
Material corrosion
Reliability and Risk Analysis
Level 2 and Level 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
Electrical Engineering
Power generation and distribution or electrical components
Digital instrumentation and control systems
Safeguards and Security
Material control and accountability courses
Vulnerability analysis
Human Factors and Human Reliability
Human factors modeling
Applied-experimental psychology, specializing in human performance and human factors
Fire Protection Engineering
Fire Modeling for Fuel Cycle Facilities
Fire Modeling for Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear Waste
The fuel cycle
Nuclear waste forms
Disposal methods
Chemistry of nuclear waste
Computational Methods
Application to nuclear safety
Model development
Computer code development and maintenance
Computational methods using alternative computer operating systems
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