INL National University Consortium – Annual Report 8 Funding Organization Description NUC Collaborator Advanced Manufacturing Office Low Temperature Electrochemical Activation of Ethane for Co-production of chemicals/fuels and hydrogen (Originally an FOA award that developed into a direct-funded program) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advanced Reactor Technologies Gas Cooled Reactor Modeling and Validation: Uncertainty Quantification of the HTGR Simulation North Carolina State University Advanced Reactor Technologies Ready the OSU High Temperature Test Facility for testing. Results of the testing will be used for verification and validation of the RELAP-7 code for very high temperature reactor applications. Oregon State University Advanced Test Reactor Expand the irradiation capabilities at ATR. Statistical Safety Margin Analysis to do uncertainty quantification allowing for higher power experiments in ATR. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bioenergy Technologies Office Evaluation of the reactivity of herbaceous feedstocks for biofuels North Carolina State University Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program Writing code to implement seismic probabilistic risk assessment in MOOSE North Carolina State University National Nuclear Security Administration Feasibility study and engineering design of TREAT low-enriched uranium fuel sample irradiation test in the MIT Reactor. Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Nuclear Security Administration Modeling method for fluid structure interactions Oregon State University National Nuclear Security Administration 3D printing robots for use in radioactive environments Oregon State University National Nuclear Security Administration Comparing plate types of new ATR-type fuel compared to existing type Oregon State University National Nuclear Security Administration Flow testing of in-pile reactor experiments Oregon State University National Nuclear Security Administration Modeling flow through plates and materials testing Oregon State University National Nuclear Security Administration To model this effect of natural frequencies of plate fuel arrays investigations Oregon State University Naval Reactors Pump testing, mocking up test loops for ATR Oregon State University Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Develop a theoretical and modeling framework to interpret Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy experiments for nuclear fuel and materials Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Integration of nuclear and renewable energy sources in competitive markets Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Electricity Delivery and Reliability Background study on the vulnerability of protective relays within the electric sector to damaging cyberattacks, as well as potential solutions to address these key defensive gaps Oregon State University Office of Nuclear Energy Developing cross-section generation models for graphite reactors (MIT graphite pile and INL TREAT reactor) with validation measurements in the MIT graphite pile and developing a subchannel model for multiphysics coupling simulations Massachusetts Institute of Technology Direct Funded