ML22341A208
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| Issue date: | 12/08/2022 |
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General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems General Atomics-EMS Reactor Development Overview 8 December 2022 Presented To: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Presented By: Dr. Christina A. Back Vice-President Nuclear Technologies and Materials General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group 1
Fast Modular Reactor (FMR) Concept Thermal power 100 MW Electric output 44 MW Coolant Helium Dry Cooling System pressure 7 MPa Auxiliary process facility Reactor Building System temperature 509 - 800 °C Administrative building Reactor Type
§ Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR)
§ High-Temperature Reactor (HTR)
§ Small Modular Reactor (SMR)
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FMR Pre-application Regulatory Engagement Plan A Regulatory Engagement Plan (REP) is encouraged by the NRC as an early step in the overall program to develop and deploy a new reactor technology.
2022/Q1 2022/Q2 2023/Q1 Conceptual Design of GA-EMS FMR Fuel Principal Design GA-EMS FMR Licensing QA program Qualification Strategy Criteria Plan Fuel performance analysis methodology and fuel NRC hosted a public qualification plans meeting regarding the FMR PDC on 9/21/2022 2023/Q2 2023/Q4 2024/Q2 NRC Feedback/
Source Term LBE/ Safety Safety PRA Strategy Document Calculation Analysis Plan Classification Revision Radionuclide transport Licensing basis event Probabilistic risk Categorization of structures, systems methodology selection and safety analysis and process and components into safety-related analysis hazard analysis and non-safety-related systems 3
Accelerated Fuel Qualification (AFQ):
Methodology to Reduce Time and Cost to Qualify New Fuels
- Brings together modeling and simulation with targeted experiments
- Emphasis on physics-based modeling and simulation versus use of empirical fits
- Use of integral as well as separate effects and accelerated experiments K. A. Terrani, N. A. Capps, M. J. Kerr, C.
A. Back, A. T. Nelson, B. D. Wirth, S. L.
Hayes, C. R. Stanek, JNM 539, 152267, 2020 C. Drzewiecki, J. Schmidt, C. VanWert, P. Clifford, NUREG 2246, 2022 Fuel Qualification for Advanced Reactors 4
Fast Modular Reactor (FMR) Fuel Test Plan
- Accelerated testing for long lifetime fuels:
Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) high-burnup Fuel Cladding irradiation tests
- Fission accelerated steady-state testing (FAST) approach with irradiation system for high-throughput acquisition (ISHA) capsule to accelerate the irradiation in compact-size rodlets
- Separate effects test:
Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility transient tests RIA power pulse
- Reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) power pulse test in a modified version of the dry in-pile fracture test (DRIFT) capsule
- Sub-integral test to bound fuel failure criteria:
In-pile tests to component properties
- Confirm the hermeticity, pellet-cladding mechanical interaction to inform FMR design 5