ARPA-E selects eight projects for recycled transuranic fuel development
From the Energy digest for Oct 29, 2026
What happened: The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy has selected eight research projects to receive funding under its High-Performance Optimized Recycled Nuclear Isotopes for Gen IV Reactors (HORNIG) program, American Nuclear Society reported on October 29, 2026. The program, announced in April, seeks to advance Executive Order 14302, "Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base," by supporting projects that develop fuel technology for advanced nuclear reactors.
What's genuinely new: The first funding selections under a program announced in April — federal R&D money moving into recycled transuranic fuel technology for Generation IV reactors, a research step beside the thread's enrichment, TRISO and HALEU supply arrangements and the DOE cladding-research funding line. No per-project awardees, institutions, or funding amounts appear in the reporting.
Watch: The named awardees and their funding amounts; the technical approaches each project takes; which Gen IV reactor designs the fuel work feeds; and results milestones from the program announced in April.
Links: American Nuclear Society · Oct 29, 5:21 PM ET