Closed · DE-FOA-0002255 · CFDA 81.049 · Discretionary

National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade: Diagnostic Measurements of Spherical Tokamak Plasmas

Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Science, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1-$2M
Award range
Closed
Status
April 9, 2020
Close date
20
Expected awards

The verdict

National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade: Diagnostic Measurements of Spherical Tokamak Plasmas is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Science that offered $1 -- $2,000,000 across 20 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 414 other opportunities from Office of Science.

$1-$2M
award range
Closed
application status
20
expected awards
81.049
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade:… is closed (last close April 9, 2020). The parent program page for CFDA 81.049 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Office of Science still indexes 414 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed April 9, 2020

Posted Feb 13 Closes Apr 9

Est. Total Funding

$10,000,000

Expected Awards

20

Instrument

Grant

Description

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announces its interest in receiving grant applications for plasma diagnostic instruments on the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. This FOA will be one of two accepting applications for research pertaining to spherical tokamaks in Fiscal Year 2020. Only applications for collaborative research focused on implementing and operating a diagnostic instrument and analyzing the resulting NSTX-U data should be submitted to this FOA. Applicants may wish to search for DE-FOA-0002259 to see the details of the other FOA supporting research in spherical tokamaks.The Spherical Tokamak program helps to build the scientific foundations for fusion energy by both contributing to the fundamental understanding of magnetically confined plasmas and assessing the attractiveness of the spherical tokamak for future fusion facilities. Applications for collaborative research must support the Spherical Tokamak program by addressing key scientific issues related to one or more of the following topics: Macroscopic Stability, Multi-Scale Transport Physics, Plasma Boundary Interfaces, Plasma Waves and Energetic Particles, and Advanced Operating Scenarios and Control.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · DE-FOA-0002255

Grants.gov marks National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade:… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Office of Science book (278 peers, 67% of 415).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 81.049

Basic Energy Sciences

U.S. Department of Energy

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Agency Contact

Josh King Program Manager Phone 301-903-9707

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What to do next

National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade:… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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