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Awards/PROJECT GRANT (B)

$78,303,346

Department of Energy·Department of Energy

to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

energyactive
ACTION DATE2026-03-03·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_DEFG0297ER41020_089
Award description

EXPERIMENTAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds experimental nuclear physics research at University of Washington, a DOE-supported academic research program.

Sub-sectors
nuclear-physics-researchdoe-national-labsbasic-research
Why this matters

Nuclear physics research underpins DOE's mission in energy, national security, and scientific discovery; supports workforce development in critical nuclear fields.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for specialized instrumentation, detector equipment, and computational resources from physics research suppliers.

U.S.–China competition angle

Nuclear physics expertise is strategically important for U.S. energy independence, advanced reactor development, and maintaining scientific leadership against Chinese research investments.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002144.

Period of performance
Start
1996-12-01
End
2026-12-31
Status
activein 229 days
Sources

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