Virginia Nuclear Energy Frontier Research Center

Virginia General Assembly recently established the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority (VNECA) effective July 1, 2013. A non-profit Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium (VNEC) will be created by VNECA in the coming months. One of the major planned goals for the VNEC is to foster strategic partnerships between Virginia educational institutions, federal laboratories, nuclear industry and non-profit organizations to rapidly expand the nuclear energy business sector in the commonwealth. Several of the VNECA stakeholder institutions have already formed a Virginia ADS Consortium with a vision to create a state-of-the-art Science and Technology Center (STC) for the application of high-power accelerators for the advancement of innovative multidisciplinary science and to educate future generation of scientists and engineers. In this presentation we will explore the objectives of the Virginia ADS Consortium and its plans to implement them.