The Department of Energy has revealed its third round of selections for its Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear’s (GAIN) nuclear energy voucher program in fiscal 2026.
According to DOE GAIN’s Wednesday press release, the recipients are:
- Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, Texas.
- OrganiCore Nuclear, based in New York, N.Y.
- Raven-Flint Nuclear Corp., based in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
- Srijan LLC, based in College Station, Texas.
Aalo, a company also selected under DOE’s reactor pilot program, will be awarded to work on the development of software modifications to support advanced reactor economics, plant availability and safety analysis capabilities.
Just like for its pilot reactor, Aalo will work with DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to further expand on the software, Event Modeling Risk Assessment using Linked Diagrams’ (EMRALD), modeling and simulation capabilities, according to the project description. The company uses INL’s EMRALD to perform generational risk analysis for reactor availability and safety optimization.
Raven-Flint Nuclear Corp. will also work with INL for its project to develop a uranium conversion process “that eliminates the need for elemental [fluorine] F₂ and F₂-derived fluorinating agents,” according to its project description.
OrganiCore Nuclear will partner with DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory on design-enabling nuclear data evaluation for an organic-cooled small modular reactor that the company is developing.
While Srijan will work on its project of overcoming the material-growth barrier for fabrication of a novel semiconductor neutron detector for advanced reactors with DOE’s Sandia National Laboratory.
DOE GAIN nuclear energy voucher program allows nuclear companies to be permitted access to DOE’s national laboratories to support nuclear innovation. These announced awards come after the second round of GAIN vouchers were selected in April.