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{{#Wiki_filter: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
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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}}

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