ML21098A175

M210413: Slides - Finan - Briefing on Advanced Reactor Preparedness Through Regulatory Engagement and Research Cooperation

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DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstrations & NRIC U.S. NRC Commission Meeting: Briefing on Advanced Reactor Preparedness Through Regulatory Engagement and Research Cooperation April 13, 2021 Ashley E. Finan, Ph.D., NRIC director ashley.finan@inl.gov nric.inl.gov

Historical Context

• Reactor Demonstration Programs

• Atomic Energy Commission

• National Reactor Testing Station

• Production Reactors

• Cooperative Power Reactor Demonstration Program

• International Demonstration Programs

• Recent Policy Actions

• Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act

• Nuclear Energy Innovation Modernization Act

• Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program

• Energy Act of 2020 2

Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program

• Objectives:

• Develop, construct, and demonstrate several advanced reactors with beneficial capabilities

• Support diversity of advanced designs

• Stimulate private sector companies/supply chains

• Funding pathways aligned with varied maturity levels:

• Advanced Reactor Demonstration (Demos) awards

• Risk Reduction for Future Demonstration (Risk Reduction) awards

• Advanced Reactor Concepts-20 (ARC-20) awards 3

Risk Reduction Concept Demonstrati Development on 4

Slide content courtesy of U.S. DOE-NE

5 mission 7

Empowering Innovators

• Demonstration Resource Network

• Regulatory Risk Reduction

• Test beds

• Economic Risk Reduction

• Demonstration Sites

• Experimental Facilities

• Virtual Test Bed

• NRIC Resource Team l 8

• Digital Engineering - work underway, open sourcing tools Addressing Cost

• Advanced Construction Technologies - award forthcoming

• Integrated Energy Systems - EOI forthcoming and Markets

• Construction Readiness - initial scoping 9

NRIC is a National Program and Central Integrator for Partners and Collaborators

Thank you!

Questions?

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Backup slides 12

5-Year NRIC Program Objectives Enable demonstration of at least 2 advanced reactors

• Make available infrastructure, sites, materials, expertise

• Provide regulatory support

• Best practices in public engagement Prepare DOE/labs for continuing innovation and demonstration

• Develop best practices for planning/construction/demonstration of nuclear projects

• Develop enduring infrastructure and expertise

• Establish methods for efficient coordination among laboratories 13

Goals for FY21 - Maintain progress to support demonstrations by the end of 2025 and sustained innovation Demonstrate Prepare vital Build and develop cost-cutting infrastructure the NRIC team technology Provide Strengthen and Anticipate and planning tools expand address regulatory and resources partnerships and needs engagement 14

NE Advanced Reactor Development R&D Campaigns

• Fast Reactor Technologies

• Demonstrate feasibility of advanced systems and component technologies

• Methods and code validation to support design and licensing

• Qualification of legacy metallic fast reactor fuel performance data

• Gas Reactor Technologies

• Advanced alloy and graphite materials qualification

• Scaled integral experiments to support design and licensing

• TRISO-coated particle fuel development and qualification

• Molten Salt Reactor Technologies

• Investigate fundamental salt properties

• Materials, models, fuels and technologies for salt-cooled and salt-fueled reactors

• Microreactors

• Non-nuclear and nuclear integrated system testing supporting commercial demonstrations and end-user applications

• Maturation of innovative components and semi-autonomous operating regimes

Other NE Programs Supporting Advanced Reactor Development

• Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP)

• Major cost-shared awards to construct and demonstrate two concepts in 5-7 years

• Other cost-shared awards supporting development of emerging innovative concepts

• National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC)

• Supporting domestic advanced reactor demonstrations by establishing innovative testing infrastructure, performing siting analyses, and conducting stakeholder outreach

• Advanced Reactor Regulatory

• Crosscutting non-LWR licensing framework activities

• Close collaboration with campaigns, industry stakeholders, and NRC

• Nuclear Cybersecurity

• Developing methods and technologies for cost-effective, cyber-secure digital instrumentation, control, and communication for current and future nuclear plants

• Advanced Reactor Safeguards

• Developing optimized methods and technologies for advanced reactors to meet domestic materials accountancy and physical protection requirements

• Integrated Energy Systems

• Developing tools and technologies to support the demonstration and commercialization of a broad range of non-electric applications for current and future nuclear plants

DOE Fuel Cycle Programs Supporting Advanced Reactor Development

• Mission: to enable innovation and the implementation of advanced technologies to optimize U.S.

nuclear energy systems and to support U.S. industry opportunities for global deployment

• Shifting emphasis towards balanced portfolio to support Advanced Reactor Demonstration and Deployment and Innovative Fuel Cycle R&D for the future

• Versatile Test Reactor: An essential domestic capability to support the development of innovative fuels, materials and technologies

• Fuel for Advanced Reactors: Metal, carbides, nitrides, and dissolved/liquid fuel concepts

• Recycling Technologies: To sustain options for improved fuel utilization and higher performing waste forms

• Material Protection, Accounting and Control Technologies (MPACT): To improve fuel cycle efficiency and effectiveness in accountancy and proliferation resistance

• Systems Analysis: To improve fuel cycle efficiency and effectiveness in accountancy and proliferation resistance