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Page • Click image to enlarge Over many decades, the Department of Energy has made significant investments in developing, building, and maintaining a large-scale testing capability at Sandia. These capabilities are used to provide qualification evidence for complex systems and materials used in packaging, storage, and transportation of radioactive materials. The testing...

Page • Nuclear Energy Ensuring environmental stability for national security, Sandia’s Nuclear Energy teams provide research and analysis to help ensure safe, secure, viable, and sustainable solutions to nuclear energy challenges, ranging from power generation to space launch safety to the management of spent nuclear fuel. Sandia develops innovative technologies and methodologies...

Page • Sandia’s nuclear facility cybersecurity risk research is focused on understanding the cybersecurity risk unique to the commercial nuclear energy sector. This research considers the use and designs of nuclear power plant safety control systems, the formal regulatory licensing process, and nuclear community stakeholder capabilities. Nuclear Energy Security Foundational Research Our initial...

Page • Sandia has played a pivotal role in the development of safety and risk assessment technologies for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) since the Browns Ferry event in 1975. The Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant fire highlighted the breadth of safety challenges that could arise beyond those assumed in developing...

Page • Sandia is the nation’s leading security laboratory, expressly missioned to support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with commercial nuclear power risk management. We integrate diverse capabilities to provide the scientific basis for risk-informed, performance-based advanced reactor security. Sandia’s nuclear security research has two areas of focus: Nuclear Energy Cybersecurity by Design,...

Page • Click image to enlarge Sandia is a recognized world leader in non-proliferation capabilities and leads the Center for Global Security and Cooperation (CGSC). The CGSC and its predecessors have supported global security and nonproliferation for more than 70 years and works to achieve global security through international technical engagement. We work with...

Page • Nuclear Waste Management Providing scientific information and analyses, as well as programmatic guidance, to both national and international entities, to facilitate resolving nuclear waste management challenges. Sandia started working in the nuclear waste research area in the early 1970’s and published its first report on nuclear waste in 1973. Sandia...

Page • NuMAD (Numerical Manufacturing And Design) 3.0 is an open-source software tool which simplifies the process of creating a three-dimensional model of a wind turbine blade. The tool manages all blade information, including aerodynamic and material properties, as well as material placement. The blade information can be modified manually or automatically...

Page • Offshore Design Optimization Advancing technology, siting offshore turbines and wind farms, and reducing offshore wind’s cost of energy Leveraging our rotor systems optimization capabilities in wind plants, we couple controls, loads, and dynamics to optimal floating topologies, lowering the cost of energy of future coastal power plants. Sandia National Laboratories...

Page • Sandia draws on materials science, risk assessment, pipeline, and rail safety experience to create new approaches for pipeline inspection, repair, and optimization. Our research examines safe rail transportation of oil and its many byproducts, fire safety for pipelines and plants, and cybersecurity for all forms of the fossil energy infrastructure....

Page • Sandia is a leading resource for novel and innovative solutions to problems involving: Subsurface characterization Target detection and monitoring Multi-scale physics of fluid-rock interactions We specialize in computational modeling, lab and field measurement, and analytical capabilities for improved oilfield awareness — including the length scale of interstitial pore spaces to...

Page • Historically, nuclear cyber and physical security have been subject to significantly different regulatory considerations for the existing fleet of reactors. Nuclear physical security has a strong emphasis on deploying proven physical security solutions and demonstrating the ability to defend against a specified Design Basis Threat (DBT). Alternatively, the current approach...

Page • Due to the harsh, remote, and vast Arctic environment, energy, transportation, communications, weather prediction, charting, and sensor technology, infrastructure, and services are not as reliable as in the continental United States. Sandia delivers essential science and technology for Arctic operations in keeping with our mission as a Department of Energy...

Page • Click image to enlarge The U.S. inventory of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from commercial nuclear power plants is estimated to reach approximately 135,000 metric tons by mid-century. Sandia performs research and development (R&D) to support the safe management and integration of the continued storage and transportation of commercial SNF, safeguards...