This nuclear reactor is something that we’ve never seen before – a small modular reactor that is economic, factory built and shippable, flexible enough to desalinate seawater, refine oil, load-follow wind, produce hydrogen, modular to any size, and that provides something we’ve all been waiting for – a reactor that cannot meltdown.At 36 seconds past 4:00 a.m. NuScale is partnered with Fluor Corporation ( NYSE: FLR), a global engineering, procurement, and construction company with a 60-year history in commercial nuclear power. There is great potential for small reactors in energy markets-domestic and overseas,’ NEI President and Chief Executive Officer Maria Korsnick said. ‘Small reactors are one of the most promising new nuclear technologies to emerge in decades. If Puerto Rico had 10 of these plants, they would no longer worry about hurricanes. This SMR is ideal as the basis of a microgrid.
It can be used to provide process heat for industrial applications, or be integrated with intermittent renewables for a combined power plant that is impervious to extreme weather and that can provide zero-carbon affordable electricity 24/7. One 50-MWmodule can power a community of 35,000 people without having to connect to a larger grid, essential for isolated regions like islands and military bases that presently depend on fossil fuel. Canada and the United Kingdom have expressed interest in this technology, while other countries including Argentina, China, Russia and South Korea are developing their own SMR designs, both for domestic use and export markets.Ĭonservative estimates predict between 55 and 75 GW of electricity will come from operating SMRs around the world by 2035, the equivalent of more than 1,000 NuScale Power Modules. This project will take advantage of the reactor’s specific ability to completely load-follow UAMPS wind farms.īuilding the first SMR has far-reaching commercial potential as well. It will be constructed for the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems ( UAMPS) at the Idaho National Laboratory, operated by the experienced nuclear operator Energy Northwest. The expectation is strong enough that the first commercial NuScale power plant is planned as soon as the review is completed.
REACTOR MELTDOWN 2 REVIEW FULL
The full review will be completed by late 2020, after which NRC will issue a design certification, valid for 15 years, for NuScale to construct this new type of power plant.
REACTOR MELTDOWN 2 REVIEW SIMULATOR
They’ve spent $70 million dollars in testing, built large-scale test facilities and built the first 12-reactor Control Room Simulator in the world, at both NuScale’s Integral System Test facility on the Campus of OSU and in at their new offices in Richland, Washington. NuScale has all its ducks in a row, absolutely critical for a fast review and licensing. This SMR can also be constructed in about half the time of traditional nuclear plants. These innovative designs bring the total life-cycle cost to produce electricity with this SMR to below that of most other energy sources, just slightly above hydro and natural gas. The boundaries of this plant are only about 500 yards on a side. power plant covers less than a tenth of a square mile, about 60 acres. The small size of the NuScale SMR and the absence of large support systems means that the entire. In comparison, it takes at least 130,000 acres, or about 200 square miles, of wind farms to produce the same amount of energy as one NuScale 12-pack. A single NuScale nuclear power module is 76-feet tall and 15-feet in diameter, and sits in a plant covering less than a tenth of a square mile or about 60 acres. These modules use standard 17x17 PWR fuel assemblies, also making them cost-effective, at only half the height, with an average U-235 enrichment of 3.8%.
Traditional nuclear reactors are between about 600 and 1,200 MW, but these small power modules are about 50 MW each and 12 of them can be put together to make a power plant up to 600 MW - a 12-pack. Traditional large reactors need extremely large forging facilities, of which only a few exist in the world - none in America.
The reactor vessels and other large components can be manufactured with medium-sized forges, something we actually have here in the United States. The components of the NuScale reactor can all be manufactured in a factory prior to shipping (see figure) and assembly at the site, removing a major cost issue with building new nuclear plants. A couple of additional features are: 1) no one can hack this reactor and 2) refueling of this reactor does not require the nuclear plant to shut down.
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