Nuclear Engineering Program Director, Dr. Ken Allen, is a primary consultant for HolosGen Corporation, responsible for oversight of the neutronic calculations and design of the HOLOS micro- modular reactor. His team was just awarded a 2.3-million-dollar grant as part of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) initiative. The grant was provided to develop a gas-cooled nuclear reactor with load following ability that can be packaged in a standard shipping container. By using a closed Brayton cycle engine with components connected directly to the reactor core, the team expects to simplify plant construction, leading to lower costs and shorter commissioning times. The team aims to demonstrate the viability of this concept using multi-physics modelling and simulation tools validated by testing a non-nuclear prototype.
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