DOE awards safe, clean energy project to Ozark IC
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS February 2022 – Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. (Ozark IC), a Fayetteville-based leader in rugged electronics, recently earned a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The final one-year contract is still in negotiations and is expected to be nearly $200,000. Ozark IC will use its high-temperature technology to develop a high-temperature health-monitoring instrument that measures the state of molten salts used in molten-salt cooled nuclear reactors (MSRs). Molten salts are used in next-generation nuclear reactors to transfer heat from the reacting fuel or to have nuclear fuel dissolved within the salty fluid itself – thereby providing safe, clean energy. “The opportunity to use our technology to help meet the demand for […]