{"56339":{"#nid":"56339","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Awarded More Than $3 Million For Energy Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for one of 42 university-led research and development projects aimed at developing the next generation of nuclear technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech is one of 23 U.S. universities that will serve as lead researchers in 17 states. Industry,\u0026nbsp;laboratories\u0026nbsp;and other\u0026nbsp;universities\u0026nbsp;are set to collaborate on many of these projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research is broken down into four categories. Georgia Tech will receive funding of $1,046,277 in the area of \u0022Generation IV Reactor Research and Development.\u0022 The goal: to develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that produce more energy with less waste.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Farzad Rahnema, associate chair of the Woodruff School and chair of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering\/Medical Physics program, will spearhead the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis grant is in addition to a $1 million award Tech received from the Department of Energy last month for membrane research and carbon capture, one of 37 projects selected to help develop clean energy potential in the U.S. Georgia Tech will also partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on a second approved project \u2013 budgeted at $987,547 \u2013 involving membranes and carbon capture. Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars David Sholl and Bill Koros, both from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will be taking the lead on these research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for one of 42 university-led research and development projects aimed at developing the next generation of nuclear technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech receives grant for one of 42 university-led nuclear projects."}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2010-05-20 17:32:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:57","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/nuclear.gov\/pdfFiles\/NEUP_FY10_RDAwards.pdf","title":"List of selected projects"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/koros\/index.php?do=koros","title":"Bill Koros Research Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/sholl\/","title":"David Sholl Research Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/rahnema.shtml","title":"Farzad Rahnema"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9480","name":"energy; nuclear; mechanical;"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon Fernandez\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:don.fernandez@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edon.fernandez@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["don.fernandez@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}