Nuclear Energy R&D obligations in Washington

What the 81.121–Washington join is

CFDA 81.121 is titled NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION. Crossed with Washington place of performance, obligations sum to $985,179,326 on 5 awards. The national nuclear R&D hub includes other states. Washington’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $985,179,326 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of reactors at Hanford or in Richland.

Five awards is a concentrated R&D pattern: DOE nuclear research often posts as a small number of large assistance or cooperative-agreement instruments. The join does not name national labs, list demonstration projects, or count megawatts. Packet facts stop at $985,179,326, 5 awards, WA, and 81.121. Correlation is not causation.

81.121 is not environmental cleanup

Hanford cleanup and other DOE environmental catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $985,179,326 would invent a broader DOE total than this cell contains. Facts available: Washington, CFDA 81.121, $985,179,326, 5 awards. Reactor types, TRL levels, and lab names are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration, not a ranking of generating capacity. Dividing $985,179,326 by 5 yields about $197.04 million per award—a large R&D-instrument scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5 is not a count of reactors.

Washington geography on the nuclear R&D tag

WA is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Richland, Seattle, or another in-state address can share the tag. Awards coded to Idaho, Oregon, or California stay outside $985,179,326 even when a multi-lab team crosses those borders. The code does not convert $985.2 million into a site map.

Washington federal spending is the all-program parent. 81.121 is one row on Washington programs. $985.2 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration in Washington for the filtered table, CFDA 81.121 for 81.121 without a Washington filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $985,179,326.

Reading 5 awards under $985.2 million

$985,179,326 ÷ 5 is about $197.04 million per award. That average is an R&D-agreement scale, not a typical electricity bill. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 5 as a record count, not as 5 finished demonstrations.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $985,179,326 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 5 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $985,179,326 without changing the join key of 81.121 and WA.

What the nuclear R&D–Washington pair does not prove

A large 81.121 total tagged to Washington does not measure whether a demonstration reached commercial operation, and it does not equal cleanup work. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $985,179,326 on 5 awards for Nuclear Energy R&D in Washington.

Keep both sides of the join: Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration and Washington, obligations only. Do not annualize $985,179,326 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 5 as a reactor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an energy story.

Using the nuclear R&D–Washington overlay

The overlay target is the Washington × CFDA 81.121 table. Open Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration in Washington when you want the same $985,179,326 / 5-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 81.121 drops the Washington filter. Washington federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Washington programs lists other catalogs beside 81.121. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Washington won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 81.121 plus WA. Obligations of $985,179,326 are not outlays.

Questions

How much nuclear energy R&D funding is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $985,179,326 in CFDA 81.121 obligations with Washington place of performance on 5 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not DOE cleanup. Keep Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration and Washington together when citing $985,179,326.

Does 5 awards mean 5 reactors?

5 is a USAspending award-record count, not a reactor census. The implied mean is about $197.04 million per award. Unique recipients and project names are unpublished. 5 is a record count, not a person or facility census. The overlay is the live Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration–Washington table.

Is this Washington’s total federal energy spend?

No. $985,179,326 is only the 81.121 × Washington cell. Other DOE catalogs appear on separate Washington program pages. Nationwide 81.121 is not limited to Washington. Obligations of $985,179,326 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration–Washington table.

Do these obligations equal electricity generated?

No. $985,179,326 is an obligation sum for research, development, and demonstration. Outlays are a different series. Megawatt-hours are not in the packet facts. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 81.121 × WA pair. The overlay is the live Nuclear Energy Research, Development And Demonstration–Washington table.