Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration — CFDA 81.121

Nuclear-energy R&D obligations at $3.68 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,684,681,280.77 ($3,684,681,281 rounded) in obligations under CFDA 81.121. Three hundred seventy-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $9.77 million per award — larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year research, development, and demonstration awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical reactor-project budget.

The assistance-listing title is NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION. CFDA 81.121 is the identifier. Other energy listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $3.68 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined energy-R&D total this packet does not contain.

124 recipients, 38-state coding

One hundred twenty-four recipients share 377 awards, or about 3.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.68 billion evenly would assign about $29.7 million per recipient. That pattern is denser than a one-award-per-recipient demonstration file but thinner than a multi-thousand-row science listing. The packet does not list the 124. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of reactors or researchers.

Thirty-eight states in the geographic count show incomplete nationwide coding in this extract. Nuclear-energy dollars still concentrate where labs, universities, and industrial partners sit. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a reactor count

Among energy listings, 81.121 is a mid-volume file: 377 rows against 124 recipients. Multi-year demonstrations and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique facilities. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of nuclear projects.” Recipients (124) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (377) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report megawatts, license status, or publication counts. Citing 377 as reactors or plants would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus energy outlays

The $3.68 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against nuclear-energy R&D awards — are not in the packet. A laboratory can show a large obligation stock while demonstration work follows a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 81.121 to size this nuclear-energy listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a plant-status dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.121.

What the 81.121 tables omit

The Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a reactor registry, not a license docket, and not a publication index. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,684,681,280.77. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 377 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 38 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on equipment or staff.

Where the 81.121 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.121 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other energy listings. For 81.121 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.121’s 377 awards spread $3,684,681,280.77 across 124 recipients and 38 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 3.0 award records per recipient and about $9.77 million per award are the structure story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 81.121 is indexed at $3,684,681,280.77 in obligations, 377 awards, 124 recipients, and 38 states on USAspending.gov. Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.68 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 81.121, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $3,684,681,280.77 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for nuclear energy research and demonstration?

USAspending.gov records $3,684,681,280.77 in obligations for CFDA 81.121. SpendingVault indexes 377 awards, 124 recipients, and 38 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a reactor count. CFDA 81.121’s $3.68 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 81.121 carry?

The listing shows 377 awards against 124 recipients, or about 3.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $9.77 million per award. Award count is not a plant or reactor count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 81.121 awards?

The extract lists 124 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.121. Geographic coding covers 38 states. The packet does not name the 124 or publish plant status. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 81.121’s $3.68 billion on 377 awards, with 124 recipients and 38 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.68 billion already spent on nuclear R&D?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.121’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or demonstration results. The $3.68 billion on 377 awards is the obligation figure.