Federal energy R and D priorities: materials research and development

Technical Report · Sun Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6436123

Recommendations are presented on priorities within DOE's non-defense R and D program and suggests where funding should be changed, relative to the President's FY 1982 budget request. The ERAB has confined its recommendations to matters of science, technology and engineering. The salient findings of the Board are: (1) Funding relative to the President's FY 1982 budget request for the science and technology base programs should be increased in some programs and remain the same in others. Within these programs high priority should be given to: research on the phenomena governing accumulation of CO/sub 2/ in the atmosphere, and research into acid rain. (2) In the electric supply sector, priority should be given to supporting: nuclear waste isolation research and demonstration, conventional reactor systems and safety, the LMFBR base program, and uranium enrichment R and D. (3) Programs in which reductions can be made include: small reductions in magnetic fusion, significant reductions in the Clinch River breeder, the light water breeder, electricity transmission, and high temperature geothermal, and phase-out of funding for hydropower and magnetohydrodynamics. (4) The Board noted that the electric supply technology is receiving funding substantially in excess of its contribution to present and future energy supplies. (5) Technologies such as enhanced oil and gas recovery will be adequetely supported by the private sector. (6) R and D funding for energy conservation and end-use technology is underfunded. (7) The Board believes that if its recommendations are implemented, a net reduction in DOE's budget will result.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC. Energy Research Advisory Board
• OSTI ID: 6436123
• Report Number(s): DOE/S-0031; ON: DE84017284
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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