Nuclear Power
Nuclear industry focuses on Generation III technology and small modular reactors
Generation III power technology and advances in small modular reactors are driving developments in the nuclear power generation market. Sean Ottewell reports.
Sean Ottewell informa que la tecnología energética de III generación y los avances en los reactores modulares pequeños están impulsando los desarrollos en el mercado de generación de energía nuclear. Sean Ottewell reports.
Kraftwerkstechnik der 3. Generation und die Weiterentwicklung kleiner, modularer Reaktoren bestimmen die Entwicklung auf dem Atomenergiemarkt. Sean Ottewell berichtet.
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olls-Royce is to collaborate with Rosatom and Finnish nuclear utility company Fortum on an initial project to assess the feasibility of introducing Russian Generation III+
VVER nuclear reactor technology to the UK new build market. Te UK government and Rosatom signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate this commercial work in September. Rolls-Royce and Rosatom have been working closely together since 2011. Tis latest contract will see Rolls-Royce undertake engineering and safety assessment work for Rosatom ahead of its Generation III+ VVER reactor technology potentially entering the first step of the UK’s formal regulatory approval process which is called generic design assessment. Rolls-Royce is also supporting US-based
Fig. 1. USEC’s new commercial grade centrifuges are now spinning individually and at target speed – the next step to producing enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.
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NuScale Power in its submission to the US Department of Energy’s (US DOE) funding opportunity announcement to bring scalable, small modular reactor (SMR) technology to market by 2025. Te development of clean and affordable nuclear power options is a key element of the DOE nuclear energy R&D roadmap. High priority is placed upon accelerating timelines for the commercialisation and deployment of SMR technologies through its SMR licensing technical support programme. Te latest US DOE funding opportunity announcement is focused on optimising SMR efficiency, operations and designs through innovative and effective solutions for enhanced safety, operations
and performance. Te US DOE aims to solicit proposals for cost-shared SMR projects that have the potential to be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and achieve commercial operation around 2025. NuScale Power has developed novel and
proprietary breakthrough technology for an innovative, simple, safe, economic, and scalable SMR. Using proven light water reactor technology, the NuScale Power Module is cooled by natural circulation, is entirely self-contained and is installed underwater and underground to maximise safety.
Generator packages to China Alstom has signed a co-operation agreement with China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) for the supply of turbine and generator packages
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