SMR - 160 is a passive, intrinsically safe, supremely secure, and economically attractive small
modular reactor with the flexibility to be used in remote locations, in areas with limited water supplies or land, and in unique industrial applications where traditional larger reactors are not practical.
Not exact matches
The US Department of Energy is co-sponsoring a project to see whether small
modular reactors (SMRs), each producing about 180 megawatts (compared
with 1000 megawatts from a full - sized
reactor) can be made cost - effective.
Next Steps The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is working
with the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, to revamp the licensing procedure for nuclear power plants to include new rules tailored to small
modular reactors.
Small
modular reactors may help
with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing
reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.
«Yeah, there's less concrete and, yeah, there's less steel in the
reactor vessel,» says nuclear engineer Eric Loewen, chief consulting engineer at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, which is proposing a
modular fast
reactor to help the U.K.
with its plutonium problem.
The NRC has begun discussions
with Babcock & Wilcox Co. about its proposed mPower
modular reactor design that is currently under consideration by the Tennessee Valley Authority for construction at TVA's Clinch River site in Tennessee.
The one possible turn in the otherwise rough road in the West could be a shift in technology toward small,
modular reactors (SMRs), which U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Ernest Moniz said could be deployed as soon as 2022
with his agency's support.
The CAREM design was developed by Invap under contract
with the CNEA as a simplified
modular pressurised water
reactor (PWR)
with integral steam generators.
So we're doubling our spending on energy research
with a major commitment to small
modular nuclear
reactors.
We are pleased to announce that URS Nuclear, a unit of URS Corporation's (URS) Energy & Construction Division, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding
with Holtec International that gives URS an important role in the development of Holtec's small
modular reactor, the SMR - 160.
The proposal for the second round federal funding opportunity from the U.S. DOE for small
modular reactor (SMR) development is due on July 1, 2013,
with the DOE anticipating making award (s) by January 16, 2014.
SMR - 160 is a passive, intrinsically safe, secure and economical small
modular reactor that has the flexibility to be used in remote locations, in areas
with limited water supplies or land, and in unique industrial applications where traditional larger
reactors are not practical.
We are pleased to announce that a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between our wholly owned subsidiary SMR, LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Office (DOE - SR), along
with the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), has been executed to situate our first 160 MW (e) small
modular reactor at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
He has also been intimately involved
with new plant development and deployment including advanced light water
reactors, small
modular reactors and advance non-light water
reactors.
We are pleased to announce that the Company has partnered
with NuHub, a collaborative group of public, private, academic, and community development groups working to maximize the economic and job creation impact of the nuclear renaissance on the Midstate of South Carolina, to compete for one of two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for small
modular reactor (SMR) development.
We believe South Carolina,
with its pro-business inclinations, a large base of nuclear professionals, great port facilities, and a moderate climate is the natural place for the rise of the small
modular reactor industry that is likely to be worth over 100 billion a year in the next decade.
The «Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small
modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs
with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulators.
Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site,
with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small
modular reactors (SMR).
«You get this beautiful synergy of using PRISM, a small
modular reactor, to fix a [waste] problem and then explore if we could use this to make all this other electricity
with the integral fast
reactor approach,» he explains.
While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small
modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast
reactors as being the most mature advanced
reactor technology
with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous
reactors.
I don't think we can count on Elon Musk coming up
with scaleable atmospheric CO2 scrubbers powered by Lockheed Martin
modular fusion
reactors.
The simplest change would be to replace coal + CCS
with nuclear (the UK government now seems to be chasing the mirage of Small
Modular Reactors) but that is only marginally less unrealistic than CCS (a new post on this shortly, I hope).
Success
with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale,
with viable economics, infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear heat sources and small
modular reactors, and solar heat sources and renewable electricity of sufficient reliability to be integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.
This technology could be revived,
with more modern and cheaper electrolyzers, and the advent of methane cracking and small
modular reactors would eventually allow ammonia production anywhere in the world.
The nuclear industry has embraced this strategy
with the development of small
modular reactors, or SMRs, because downsizing and standardizing the
reactor design can significantly reduce complexity.
«You have to be very careful
with small
modular reactors,» he said, «to distinguish what goes in the near - term commercialization category and what continues to remain a concept in a laboratory someplace.