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Country: USA
Summary: Tech Licensing Opportunity: ViBRANT: Visual Benign Reactor As Analog for Nuclear Testing
Deadline: 21 Aug 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 123101235
Document Ref. No.: BA-1398
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Description
ViBRANT: Visual Benign Reactor As Analog for Nuclear Testing
ViBRANT offers a revolutionary approach to simulating and understanding nuclear reactor behaviors using a geometrically accurate, LED-based analog model.
The Challenge:
In the intricate world of nuclear reactor design and testing, the gap between theoretical models and tangible applications presents significant hurdles. Traditionally, this process involves a lengthy and rigid sequence of design, build, test, refine, and repeat, fraught with potential hazards and inefficiencies. Enter ViBRANT (Visual Benign Reactor As Analog for Nuclear Testing), a solution designed to streamline and safeguard this process. Through its innovative use of geometrically accurate, LED-based models, ViBRANT offers a safer, quicker, and more intuitive way to understand and iterate nuclear reactor behaviors and systems.
How it Works:
ViBRANT is a physical apparatus designed to mimic the core configuration of nuclear reactors, such as the SNAP-10A and MARVEL reactors, using 20, 000 individually addressable LED lights. This model facilitates a direct, intuitive connection between digital simulation and physical phenomena, enabling rapid iterations of design, testing, and refinement in a safe, accessible format. It represents a significant step forward in nuclear reactor development, training, and educational tools by bridging the gap between digital approximations and physical reality.
Key Advantages:
Provides a geometrically accurate representation of nuclear reactor cores. Enables rapid, agile iterations between concept ideation and analog validation. Reduces the hazards and protocols associated with full-scale nuclear reactor deployment. Improves understanding and integration of digital and physical development processes. Enhances human interaction with complex nuclear systems through visual and sensory engagement.Problems Solved
Long, sequential development cycles in nuclear reac...
Active Contract Opportunity
Notice ID : BA-1398
Related Notice
Department/Ind. Agency : ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier : ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
Office: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE–DOE CNTR
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Updated)
Updated Published Date: Jul 21, 2025 04:38 pm EDT
Original Published Date: Jul 01, 2024 01:31 pm EDT
Updated Response Date: Aug 21, 2025 11:00 am EDT
Original Response Date: Jul 01, 2025 11:00 am EDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Updated Inactive Date: Sep 05, 2025
Original Inactive Date: Jul 16, 2025
Initiative: None
Classification
Original Set Aside:
Product Service Code: R412 - SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: SIMULATION
NAICS Code: 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services
Place of Performance: Idaho Falls, ID 83415 USA
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