NuScale Power Advanced SMR: Blazing the Trail · 2016-06-21 · A NuScale Power Module (NPM)...
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NuScale Power Advanced SMR:
Blazing the Trail
NCSL NUCLEAR LEGISLATIVE WORKING
GROUP SPRING MEETING
Charles Marcinkiewicz, Director of
Marketing, NuScale Power
Idaho Falls, ID
June 15 - 17, 2016
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What Does it Take to Bring a New Design to Market?
Vision—improvements vis-à-vis existing designs (safety, fuels,
efficiency, costs, speed of deployment)
Time—concept, modeling, prototype, testing, materials (NuScale will
be ~24 years)
Money– For NuScale ~$1B+, currently ~$12MM+/month,
Market—Unless someone is willing to buy it there is no point
Government Support—this is a heavy lift for private sector
Licensing—certainty of dedicated resources, requirements,
schedule
Supply chain—lots of new stuff needs to be made and constructed
People—600+ currently on project at NuScale
WARNING: New fuels, non-LWR’s, new materials will take longer—
design, testing, demonstration, licensing
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Blazing the Trail to Commercialization
A NuScale Power Module (NPM) includes the reactor vessel, steam
generators, pressurizer and containment in an integral package that
eliminates reactor coolant pumps and large bore piping (no LB-
LOCA)
Each NPM is 50 MWe (gross) and factory built for easy transport and
installation
Each NPM has its own skid-mounted steam turbine-generator and
condenser
What is a NuScale Power Module?
Each NPM is installed
below-grade in a
seismically robust,
steel-lined, concrete
pool
NPMs can be
incrementally added to
match load growth - up
to 12 NPMs for 600
MWe gross (~570 net)
total output
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*Source: NRC
Size Comparison
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Coolant Flow Driven By Physics
Convection – energy from the
nuclear reaction heats the primary
reactor coolant causing it to rise by
convection and natural buoyancy
through the riser, much like a
chimney effect
Conduction – heat is transferred
through the walls of the tubes in the
steam generator, heating the water
(secondary coolant) inside them to turn
it to steam. Primary water cools.
Gravity – colder (denser) primary
coolant “falls” to bottom of reactor
pressure vessel, cycle continues
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NuScale Fuel—(NuFuel HTP2 ™)
• Standard 17 X 17 PWR
Fuel Assembly
• Half height
• 37 FA’s/core
• Enriched ~3.7%
• ~ 4% MTU of 1000MW core
• RFO 24-month cycle
• ~1/3 core replaced
• MOX capable
• Areva design and
Fabrication — NuAB
guidance
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Site Overview
annex building
warehouse
cooling towers A
cooling towers B
reactor
building
administration
building
radwaste
building
switchyard
turbine building B
ISFSI
(dry cask
storage)
turbine building A
parking
control building
protected
area fence
34.5 acres (~14 hectares)
within the protected area fence
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SMR Technology Leader – Collaborative Research
• From 2012 to 2015, NuScale Power
staff has engaged in nearly 60
research collaborations with
external organizations
• NuScale is collaborating in more
than $24 million of externally
funded research, primarily from
DOE-sponsored university and
laboratory grants
18 completed, 37 active or
pending, and 4 inactive
collaborations
Engagements with 13 different
companies, 5 US national
laboratories, and 15
universities
• Internationally, NuScale has
partnered with two universities (UK
and Italy), one national laboratory
(UK), and one commercial company
(Finland)
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Distribution of Research Collaborations
Industry
Labs
Universities
Industry Laboratories Universities
Systems and Components Needed to Protect the Core:
Reactor Pressure Vessel
Containment Vessel
Reactor Coolant System
Decay Heat Removal System
Emergency Core Cooling System
Control Rod Drive System
Containment Isolation System
Ultimate Heat Sink
Residual Heat Removal System
Safety Injection System
Refueling Water Storage Tank
Condensate Storage Tank
Auxiliary Feedwater System
Emergency Service Water System
Hydrogen Recombiner or Ignition
System
Containment Spray System
Reactor Coolant Pumps
Safety Related Electrical
Distribution Systems
Alternative Off-site Power
Emergency Diesel Generators
Safety Related 1E Battery System
Anticipated Transient without
Scram (ATWS) System
NuScale Safety Systems
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Reduced Core Damage Frequency
Source: NRC White Paper, D. Dube; basis for discussion at 2/18/09 public
meeting on implementation of risk matrices for new nuclear reactors
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10-5
10-4
10-3
NRC Goal (new reactors)
Operating PWRs
Operating BWRs
New LWRs
(active)
New PWRs
(passive)
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More Barriers Between Fuel & Environment
Conventional Designs
1. Fuel Pellet and Cladding
2. Reactor Vessel
3. Containment
NuScale’s Additional Barriers
4. Water in Reactor Pool
5. Stainless Steel Lined Concrete Reactor Pool
6. Biological Shield Covers Each Reactor
7. Reactor Building
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Ground level
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Smaller Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) Due to Safer Design
(depending on site characteristics)
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Innovative Advancements to Reactor SafetyNuclear fuel cooled indefinitely without AC or DC power*
WATER COOLING BOILING AIR COOLING
• 30 days is a minimum based on very conservative estimates.
*Alternate 1E power system design eliminates the need for 1E qualified batteries to perform ESFAS protective functions –Patent Pending
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Making it Real
Commercialization Plan and Status
The Genesis of Program WIN
June 2010: Idaho Governor Butch Otter became Chair of
Western Governors Association (WGA) and sponsored Western
nuclear energy policy
June 2011: “The Future of Nuclear Energy:
Shaping a Western Policy” published:
discusses SMR’s explicitly
Feb 2012: Otter creates Idaho Leadership in
Nuclear Energy (LINE) Commission
June 2012: Utah Governor Gary Herbert
becomes WGA Chair and sponsors development
of a 10-year energy plan-patterned after Utah 10-year plan
June 2013: WGA 10-yr plan unveiled with stated goal to “Find
ways to accelerate the introduction of SMRs into the
marketplace.”
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First Deployment: UAMPS CFPP
• First Deployment: UAMPS CFPP• Utah Associated Municipal
Power Systems (UAMPS) Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) will be first deployment, sited in Idaho.
• UAMPS consists of 45 members serving load in 8 western states.
• DOE INL site use agreement
• Site selection nearly complete
• “Nth” Deployments by 2034• Within Program WIN
• Other US Projects
• International Projects
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NuScale Diverse Energy Platform (NuDEP) Initiative
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• SAFE
• SMALL
• SCALABLE
• FLEXIBLE
• RELIABLE
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Lowering the Barriers for Market Entry
High capital costs set the bar high for building new nuclear
power plants, especially in unregulated markets.
These barriers can be lowered by giving proper value to the
environmental benefits of nuclear power.
Examples:
To really combat anthropogenic climate change, a carbon price, or
some other disincentive that includes natural gas is essential.
Renewable portfolio standards should be redefined as clean energy
portfolio standards and include new nuclear generation.
Subsidies for clean energy should be equal across the board for all
clean energies on a per kW basis.
Unregulated market structures will need to be reformed for new builds
of nuclear power units to be viable.
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NuEx Tours – NIST, Control Room Simulator and UMM
Acknowledgement & DisclaimerThis material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy
under Award Number DE-NE0000633.
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Mike McGough
Chief Commercial Officer
www.nuscalepower.com
The Element of Nu
Charles Marcinkiewicz
Director, Commercial Processes
Mike McGough
Chief Commercial Officer
www.nuscalepower.com
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