ML23060A143

Lund - TH23 - v6

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Issue date:	03/16/2023
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Session TH23, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, March 16, 2023, Thursday Constructing Our Energy Future Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Reactor Louise Lund Construction TH23 Chair Director, Division of Engineering (DE)

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

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TH23Constructing Our Energy Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Reactor Construction Ashley Finan Juswald Vedovi Bret Tegeler Hasan Charkas Director Senior Operations Consulting Engineer Principal Project Manager National Reactor Leadership Manager Westinghouse Electric Electric Power Research Innovation Center (NRIC)

General Electric Hitachi Company (WEC) Institute (EPRI)

Idaho National Nuclear Energy (GEH)

Laboratory (INL)

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Advanced Reactor Construction

• Advanced reactor designs use different nuclear technologies and take different approaches for civil/structural construction.

• The industry and research communities are making strides in developing advanced construction technologies to reduce construction costs and shorten schedules:

• Modular construction, steel-concrete composite construction, SteelBricksTM, seismic base isolation, floating platforms, augmented reality (AR) for construction management, digital twins (DT), artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), etc.

• The speakers will discuss various activities their organizations are conducting.

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Examples of NRC Activities and Challenges

• Developing a technology-inclusive regulatory framework to accommodate different nuclear technologies.

• Staying current with the emerging advanced construction technologies and development of the related codes and standards, and how related NRC guidance may be updated.

• Ensuring that advanced construction technologies to reduce construction cost maintain the appropriate safety and defense in depth.

• Carefully assessing first-of-a-kind new advances for long-term performance and inspection and maintenance protocols.

• Considering how the fast pace in adopting and developing AR/AI/ML/DT in particular requires acquiring new skills quickly and proactively recruiting the next generation of tech-savvy engineers.

• Assessing the implications of building advanced reactors on sites that are normally not considered for large light-water-reactor designs.

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Examples of NRC Activities Related to Design and Construction

• Participation in the application of advanced

• Future Focused Research program includes construction methodologies considered by the projects on DT, AI/ML, and natural language DOE/NRIC demonstration project. processing.

• Development of risk-informed, performance-

• University Nuclear Leadership Program grants:

based, technology-inclusive regulatory guides

• Lapped connection for accelerated modularized on seismic design and seismic base isolation construction for advanced reactors.

• Advanced sensors for structural integrity monitoring

• Soil-structure interaction framework for small modular

• Continued engagement with standards reactors development organizations, including the

• Concrete creep and creep fracture annual NRC Standards Forum.

• Hybrid risk tools for external hazard probabilistic risk assessment TH23 - Constructing Our Energy Future 6

TH23Constructing Our Energy Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Reactor Construction Presentations:

Ashley Finan, INL, National Reactor Innovation Center Advanced Construction Technology Initiative Juswald Vedovi, GEH, Progress and Lessons Learned on Advanced Construction Technologies for New Small Modular Reactor Projects Bret Tegeler, WEC, Design and Construction Considerations in Conceptual Design of Advanced Reactors Hasan Charkas, EPRI, EPRIs Advanced Construction ResearchEnabling the Deployment of Advanced Reactors TH23 - Constructing Our Energy Future 7

TH23Constructing Our Energy Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Reactor Construction Panel Discussion TH23 - Constructing Our Energy Future 8

Closing Remarks Continue Continue Continue engaging all collaborating on enhancing stakeholders shared research engineering interests communication TH23 - Constructing Our Energy Future 9

TH23Constructing Our Energy Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Reactor Construction Contact Information Louise Lund, Chair of Session TH23, Director, Division of Engineering, NRC/RES louise.lund@nrc.gov Jinsuo Nie, Coordinator of Session TH23, Structural Engineer, NRC/RES/DE jinsuo.nie@nrc.gov Frederick Sock, Liaison of Session TH23, Structural Engineer, NRC/RES/DE frederick.sock@nrc.gov TH23 - Constructing Our Energy Future 10