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

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Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Briefing to NRC Commissioners on Advanced Reactor Preparedness through Regulatory Engagement and Research Cooperation Stephen E. Kuczynski Chairman, President, & CEO Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

April 13, 2021

Topics

• SNC Perspective on Advanced Reactors

• Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project - DOE award for risk reduction

• Approach to licensing (Licensing Modernization Project and guidance)

Slide 2

SNC Perspective on Advanced Reactors Develop and demonstrate high potential advanced nuclear options that can provide the best value to the company & customers RIGHT TECHNOLOGY

• Provide the backbone of a net zero economy - clean electricity, heat, hydrogen

• Address safety & sustainability RIGHT TIMELINE

• Support decarbonization commitments & demands

• Replace potential retirements RIGHT COST

• Competitive with natural gas combined cycle with post-combustion carbon capture and solar with battery BEST VALUE

• Grow revenue in a rate neutral way

• Be options positive - expand the market past electricity Slide 3

Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project DOE award for Risk Reduction Project MCRE will be the first critical MCFR and positions the technology for success on MCFR Demo Reactor ADVANCED REACTOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM

$113M TOTAL PROJECT (80/20 Cost Share)

• Principal Investigator: Nick Irvin

• Program Manager: Lauren Lathem MOLTEN CHLORIDE REACTOR EXPERIMENT MCRE will be the first fast spectrum molten salt reactor in the world and the fourth MSR ever operated

• INL sited & DOE authorize

• Low power operation up to ~500 kWth

• Provides empirical nuclear data to support design and licensing of MCFR Demo

• Demonstrates safe reactor control under a variety of operating conditions MCRE in LOTUS Test Bed Slide 4

Approach to Licensing Regulatory Framework to Support Development and Deployment of a Variety of Innovative Solutions AGILE

• Coherent, integrated safety-focused requirements for entire plant life cycle

• A dependable platform to equitably treat a variety of nuclear energy generating systems PREDICTABLE

• Performance-based objectives are explicitly established

• Technology-inclusive guidance to meet the expected objectives are provided RESILIENT

• Manages state-of-knowledge and state-of-art changes effectively without unnecessary burden, delay or disruption Technology Inclusive Risk-Informed Performance-Based Framework Part 53 NEI 18-04 / RG 1.233 (LMP) - Optional Method Slide 5

Abbreviations

• SNC - Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

• MCRE - Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment

• MCFR - Molten Chloride Fast Reactor

• INL - Idaho National Laboratory

• DOE - Department of Energy

• NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• MSR - molten salt reactor

• NRIC - National Reactor Innovation Center

• LOTUS - Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the United States

• EPRI - Electric Power Research Institute

• NEI - Nuclear Energy Institute

• RG - Regulatory Guide

• LMP - Licensing Modernization Project Slide 6