TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: MoltenClad
Contract Opportunity Analysis
The Department of Energy, through Los Alamos National Laboratory’s TRIAD contractor office, is offering a technology licensing opportunity for MoltenClad, a molten-salt electrodeposition process for protective metallic coatings on nuclear fuel pellets. The technology centers on depositing dense, uniform, full-surface metal coatings in a single step, with potential applicability to advanced reactor fuels, accident-tolerant fuel concepts, and other extreme-environment uses. The approach is described as compatible with refractory metals and tunable salt chemistries, with demonstrated zirconium coatings and a development status of TRL 3, and the place of performance is Los Alamos, New Mexico. For licensing discussions, the listed contacts are Kathleen McDonald and Lindsay Augustyn at licensing@lanl.gov, and no submission deadline or funding amount is provided.