U.S. based vendors are seeking to bring SMR LWR designs to market within the next 5-10 years but will be confronted with technological, licensing and financial challenges.
* To address these challenges NE will collaborate with NRC and industry to:
• Research and develop new technologies (e.g., helical steam generators, ceramic fuels) that support multiple designs.
• Support development of risk-informed safety analyses to support SMR licensing.
• Engage NRC and industry early on unique SMR licensing/policy issues.
• Develop new and/or revise current industry codes and standards for SMRs.
• Establish cost models that validate a range of nuclear energy options.
* A cost-share partnership for first-of-a-kind SMR design and licensing may be initiated in 2011.
A combined set of 101 pages of slides from the NRC Small Reactor workshop
Generation IV
* Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR)
* Very High Temp Reactor (VHTR)
* Supercritical-Water Cooled Reactor (SCWR)
* Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor SFR)
* Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR)
* Molten Salt Reactor (MSR)
• Hyperion Power Module
• Accelerator-Driven System (ADS)
• Fusion & Fission-Fusion Hybrids
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Workshop
Scaling Down Reactors: A Different Model for Nuclear Energy from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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