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...
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Nuclear Energy
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...
Nuclear Energy Cybersecurity by Design
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...
Nuclear Energy Safety Studies
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...
Nuclear Energy Security
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,...
Nuclear Energy Work Complex (NEWC)
Facility • The Nuclear Energy Work Complex (NEWC) consists of two separate facilities: Surtsey and the Cylindrical Boiling facility (CYBL). Surtsey acts as the base of operations for the Nuclear Energy Work Complex and includes a machine shop, electronics shops, outdoor testing facilities, and a blast pad for high-energy tests. CYBL features...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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...
Nuclear Waste Management
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...
Numerical Manufacturing And Design Tool (NuMAD)
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...
Office of Naval Research leverages Sandia-managed airspace over the Arctic Ocean for unmanned aircraft system flight
News Article, July 11, 2024 • Platform Aerospace operated their Ultra-Long Endurance Group 3 Unmanned Aircraft System, Vanilla, in the warning area complex known as W-220, last September at the Oliktok Arctic Research Center. With more than eight days of endurance, Vanilla holds the world record for continuous, un-refueled flight of a combustion engine aircraft. Sandia...
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