The Office of Materials and Chemical Technologies
and NE-43 Programs Stewardship
FY24 CINR FOA Webinar
Stephen Kung
stephen.kung@nuclear.energy.gov
202-579-0599

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NE-1/2

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Dr. Kathryn Huff, Assistant Secretary

Stakeholder Advisory Groups

Dr. Mike Goff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

NE-20
Chief Operating
Officer
Dennis Miotla

Office of Budget &Planning
Patrick Edgerton
Office of Human Capital& Business Services
Deborah Sharpe
Office of Communications
and Engagement
Alisa Trunzo

NE-3
DAS for Nuclear
Infrastructure
Programs
Tracey Bishop

NE-4
DAS for NuclearFuel Cycle andSupply Chain
Jon Carmack

Office of Nuclear
Facilities Management
VacantOffice of Advanced
Fuels Technologies
Bill McCaughey

Office of Nuclear
Materials Production,
Management &Protection
Jon Higdon

Office of Materials
and ChemicalTechnologies
Stephen Kung

NE-5
DAS for Reactor
Fleet andAdvanced Reactor
Deployment
Alice Caponiti

Senior Advisor Staff

NE-6
DAS forInternational Nuclear
Energy Policy andCooperation
Aleshia Duncan

Manager
Idaho
Operations
OfficeLance LaCroix

NE-8
DAS for Spent
Fuel & Waste
Disposition
VacantOffice of Nuclear
Energy Technologies
Suibel Schuppner

Office of Bilateral,
Multilateral andCommercialCooperation
VacantOffice of Spent Fueland Waste Scienceand TechnologyWilliam Boyle

Office of Nuclear
Reactor DeploymentAlison Hahn

Office ofInternational Nuclear
SafetyVacantOffice of Integrated
Waste Management
Erica Bickford

Office of Materials and Chemical Technologies (NE-43)
Staff & Program Responsibilities
Dr. Bill Del Cul

Ms. Tansel Selekler

Aqueous Separations
Vapor Phase Separations
Hybrid ZIRCEX

Materials Protection, Accounting& Control Technology
EBR-II for HALEU Production

Ms. Kimberly Gray

Off-Gas Captures and Immobilization
Advanced Waste Form Development

Dr. Ming Tang

Innovative Nuclear Materials

Dr. Stephen KungOffice Director

Dr. Jim Willit

Ms. Sue Lesica

Pyroprocessing
Molten Salt Chemistry
Salt Fuels

Materials Coordination,
NE-5 ART and LWRS Materials R&D3NE-43 Program Stewardship(I) Materials Recovery & Waste Form Development (MRWFD)
Mission – Develop advanced fuel recycle technologies to improve resource
utilization, reduce repository burden, limit proliferation risk and improve
economics.
Implementation Strategies:•Demonstrate recycling technologies to produce HALEU materials
for advanced reactor fuel-fabrication R&D needs;•Address nuclear materials separation and recovery challenges for various
advanced reactor designs;•Develop efficient and economical technologies for commercially viable
future industrial deployment;•Steward and expand the capabilities and knowledge in nuclear chemistry
for a broad range of nuclear applications.
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NE-43 Program Stewardship(II) Materials Protection, Accounting & Control Technologies (MPACT)
Mission – Supports the U.S. advanced fuel cycles technology developers toeffectively and economically address nuclear materials control andaccounting (MC&A) requirements.
Implementation Strategies:•Develop innovative real (or near-real) time technologies, analysis tools,and advanced integration methods to improve to enable U.S. domestic
nuclear materials management and safeguards for emerging nuclear
fuel cycles;•Engage with government and industry stakeholders early in thetechnology development process to enable a cost-effective
implementation of safeguards by design for both front end and back- endstages of the fuel cycle.
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NE-43 Program Stewardship(III) Innovative Nuclear Materials
Missions – (1) Develop next generation fuel cladding and in-core materials and (2)address nuclear materials recycling and reuse with emphasis on maintaining
long-term nuclear materials sustainability.
Implementation Strategies:••••

Establish robust nuclear materials core competencies and R&D capabilities atnational labs and universities;
Support nuclear materials research community to train broad-based next
generation expertise;
Capitalize on recent breakthroughs in computational modeling, simulation, datascience, advanced characterization, instrumentation, radiation methods,
manufacturing and processing capabilities to accelerate new cladding materials
discovery and to enhance nuclear materials recycling / reuse capabilities;
Provide a technical basis for supporting the U.S. industries’ goal forcommercialization of advanced nuclear technologies.
6LabsUniversities

Syracuse Univ
Northwestern Univ
Washington
St Univ

Univ of Idaho

Univ Wisconsin-Madison

Oregon St Univ

Univ of Illinois@UrbanaChampaign@Chicago

Rensselaer
Polytechnic Inst
MITBoston Univ

Univ Mass - Lowell
Univ Connecticut
CUNY-Hunter

Univ of Utah
Brigham Young Univ
Colorado School of Mines

Ohio St Univ

U. Colorado @ Boulder
UC - Berkeley

Univ ofPittsburgh

Penn St Univ
Univ of Virginia
UT-KnoxvilleUN - Reno

UN - Las Vegas
UC - Los Angeles
Arizona St Univ

Clemson Univ
Texas A&M Univ
Univ of Houston
Florida International Univ

Univ S. Carolina

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FY24 CINR FOA Topics
Under NE-43 Program Areas
Topic Area 4 — Nuclear Fuel Recycle Technologies — Develop
advanced fuel recycling technologies and address fundamental
materials separations and recovery challenges:• Innovative Aqueous Separation (Bill Del Cul)
• Advanced Vol-oxidation and Vapor Phase Separations (Bill Del Cul)
• Molten Salt Processes and Salt Chemistry (Jim Willit)

Topic Area 5 — Fuels• Molten Salt Fuels (Jim Willit)

Topic Area 10 — Licensing, Safety, and Security• MC&A Methods and Tools for Fuel Recycling Processes (Tansel Selekler)

Topic Area 11 — Advanced Nuclear Materials• Innovative Cladding Materials (Ming Tang)• New Materials for Off-gas Capture and Waste Form Materials (Kim Gray)8