U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Funding Opportunity Announcement, Nuclear Education Curricula Development Grant, Fiscal Year 2011 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued this Fiscal Year 2011 Nuclear Education Curricula Development Grant funding opportunity to strengthen the academic pipeline and instructional capacity in fields that directly support the NRCs public safety and regulatory mission. As an independent federal agency created under the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, the NRC licenses and regulates civilian uses of nuclear materials (byproduct, source, and special nuclear material) with the goal of protecting public health and safety, supporting common defense and security, and protecting the environment. This grant opportunity sits under the NRC Nuclear Education Grant Program, which was authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The overall intent is to build and sustain the educational infrastructure needed for the United States to move forward with nuclear energy and related activities in a way that remains safe, secure, and environmentally responsible.

This particular announcement focuses on curriculum development, meaning it is geared toward designing, improving, or expanding courses, course sequences, training materials, and academic content areas that prepare students and working professionals for nuclear-related work aligned with NRC oversight. The program is meant to support courses, studies, training, curricula, and disciplines tied to nuclear safety, nuclear security, and nuclear environmental protection, plus other areas the NRC views as essential to its regulatory responsibilities. In practice, the opportunity encourages colleges and universities to develop instruction that better equips the future workforce with the technical and professional competencies needed in regulated nuclear activities, including power generation, fuel cycle operations, materials handling, radiation protection, and safety analysis.

The NRC lists a wide set of technical priority areas eligible for curriculum development support. In nuclear engineering, emphasis areas include criticality safety courses for nuclear professionals, thermal hydraulics model development, reactor physics, nuclear power plant safety, nuclear power plant design and operations (including operating and emergency operating procedures), and fuel performance. In radiochemistry and radiobiology and health physics, the supported topics include health physics modeling, dosimetry and measurements, environmental transport, dissolution, and migration, decontamination and decommissioning, and reprocessing and recycle chemistry and technology courses. For materials and mechanical engineering, the NRC highlights welding principles and nondestructive examination (NDE) technology, management of aging plants (components and systems), and material corrosion. Additional priority areas include reliability and risk analysis; electrical engineering topics such as power generation and distribution or electrical components and digital instrumentation and control systems; safeguards and security including material control and accountability courses and vulnerability analysis; human factors and human reliability including human factors modeling and applied experimental psychology focused on human performance; and fire protection engineering, specifically fire modeling for fuel cycle facilities and fire modeling for nuclear power plants. Taken together, these focus areas reflect the NRCs practical needs in reviewing designs, licensing activities, inspecting operations, and evaluating risk and safety performance across the nuclear sector.

Administratively, the opportunity is a discretionary grant under the education activity category and is associated with CFDA number 77.006 (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Education Grant Program). The funding opportunity number is HR-FN-0610-EDU5. The announcement was posted and created on September 20, 2010, with an original and current closing date of November 1, 2010, and an archive date of December 1, 2010. The announcement indicates there is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which means applicants were not required to contribute a specific non-federal share as a condition of receiving an award.

Eligibility is centered on institutions of higher education, including public and state-controlled institutions and private institutions. The announcement also explicitly references categories of institutions commonly targeted for inclusion in federal education and workforce initiatives, including Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions. The Eligible Applicants field also notes "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," indicating there may have been additional eligible organization types described in the full announcement, but the core emphasis is clearly on higher education providers capable of developing and delivering nuclear-related curricula.

For applicants or interested parties who could not access the full announcement electronically, the listed NRC contact for assistance was MLita Carr, Contracts Specialist, reachable by phone at 301-492-3464 or by email at Mlita.Carr@nrc.gov.

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