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...
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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...
Offshore Design Optimization
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...
Offshore wind roadmap addresses operations and maintenance challenges and opportunities
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Offshore Wind Research program recently completed a first-of-its-kind report, “An Operations and Maintenance Roadmap for U.S. Offshore Wind.” Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the roadmap assesses current operation and...
Oil & Gas Midstream
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....
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