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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) FY2019 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for its Integrated University Program (IUP) was issued on www.grants.gov 30 September 2018. The FOA will be open for 60 days. Some modifications have been made to this year's FOA that included language describing research areas of interest to the NRC, adherence to service agreements, student repayment debt collection, and timeliness of grant spending.

The FOA is a bit more descriptive this year and focuses details on the topical areas that are of interest to the NRC and the nuclear industry. This is the first time NRC has been able to provide its suggestions of topical areas into the FOA.

The IUP is not a technical-research grant program. It is intended to support academic institutions to encourage careers and research in nuclear-related fields to meet the future workforce needs, while enhancing the nuclear industry broadly. Proposals are not reviewed/rated based on the research, but are competitively rated against specific criteria. These are grants, not cooperative agreements, so NRC can't direct the research being performed or the outcome.