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Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Pathway to Deployment

Federal funding opportunity DE-FOA-0003485 from Headquarters (Department of Energy).

Posted
October 16, 2024
Closed
January 17, 2025
Award ceiling
$800,000,000
Award floor
$1,000,000
Program funding
$900,000,000
Expected awards
0
Cost sharing
Yes
Instrument
Other
Assistance listing
81.255
Category
Energy
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February 16, 2025

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 81.255 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.

FY2025 obligated
$6.2B
FY2026 obligated
−$654.7M
FY2027 (to date) obligated
$0
Awards in window
96

A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.

Top recipients: Cleveland-cliffs Steel Corporation, National Cement Company of California, Inc., Century Aluminum Co, Heidelberg Materials Us Inc, Eastman Chemical Company

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

Nuclear energy is the nation’s largest source of carbon-free power, and it provided 48 percent of America’s carbon-free electricity in 2023. The nuclear industry today is building new commercialization momentum as utilities and other potential customers see the successful operation of Vogtle Units 3 and 4, anticipate sustained load growth, and begin to take advantage of tax credits and other financial support made available by the Inflation Reduction Act. Utilities are seeking and receiving Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees to extend reactor operations to 80 years, planning to uprate reactor capacity, reversing plans to close reactors, and restarting formerly shuttered reactors. However, the industry must still overcome barriers to achieve commercial liftoff by securing committed investments in an orderbook of new nuclear projects and standing up the industrial base needed for fleet-level deployment.

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