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Advanced Reactors and New Reactors Topics
BriefingCommission Meeting
February 6, 2020
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Opening Remarks
Margaret Doane
Executive Director for Operations
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Vision and Direction for Regulatory Reviews of
New and Advanced Reactors
Robert Taylor
Deputy Office Director for New Reactors
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UNIFIED NRR
RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS
SUBSEQUENT LICENSE RENEWAL
OPERATING REACTORS
ADVANCED REACTORS
NEW REACTORS
MEDICAL ISOTOPES
We Make SAFE Use of Nuclear Technology POSSIBLE
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SAFE, TIMELY, AND EFFECTIVE LICENSING & OVERSIGHT OF VOGTLE 3&4
Closing ITAAC
Overseeing Vogtle Construction
Resolving
License Amendment
Requests 5
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SUSTAINING SMALL MODULAR REACTOR (SMR) PROGRESS
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
Phase 5
Phase 6
Rulemaking
Phase 1
Design Certification
on Schedule
Standard Design
Approval
ON THE HORIZON
BWRX-300 SMR
Construction
Permit
Combined License
HITACHI
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ADVANCED REACTORS STAKEHOLDERS
NEIMA NEICA
PUBLIC
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Commitment
Execution
Execution
ENABLING the SAFE Use of
New NUCLEARTechnologies
COMMITMENT
PREPARATION EXECUTION
SUCCESS
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Michael King, Director
Vogtle Project Office
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Leveraging technology and innovation to ensure safe oversight of Vogtle project
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ITAAC CLOSURE
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All Vogtle UINs Are Accepted
Enabling Efficient ICN Reviews
UNIT 3 ICNs UNIT 4 ICNs UINs
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Continuously Adapting Inspection to Incorporate Lessons Learned from First Part 52
Construction
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Initiatives to Modernize Advanced Reactor Licensing
John Segala
Chief, Advanced Reactor Policy Branch
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Executing the Vision
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Facilitating Innovation with an Integrated Safety Approach
Fuel
Performance
Functional
Containment
Siting
Emergency
Preparedness
Environmental Insurance
SSC
Classification
& Event
Selection
Holistically
Considering
Consequences &
Safety Margins
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Developing a Modern Risk-Informed Framework
SECY-19-0117NEI-18-04
DG-13536 LMP Pilots
LicensingModernizationProject (LMP)
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Risk-Informing the Content of Applications
Application
LMPBDBE
Safety-Related SSCs
Non-Safety-RelatedSSCs
Non-Safety-Related SSCs With Special Treatment
Safety ClassificationAdvanced Reactor Design
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Working Group on the Safety of Advanced Reactors (WGSAR)
Cooperating Internationally
Sharing Regulatory Experience
Advancing Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Licensing Approaches
Memorandum of Cooperationwith Canada
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Implementing NEIMA Provisions
Nuclear Energy Innovation and
Modernization Act (NEIMA)
• Issued Reports to Congress- Staged Licensing Process - Risk-Informed Guidance
• Developing Guidance within Existing Framework- Source Term- Event Selection- Containment Performance- Emergency Preparedness
• Developing a Technology-Inclusive, Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Regulatory Framework- 10 CFR Part 53
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Readiness to ReviewNon-LWR Applications
Ben Beasley, Chief
Advanced Reactor Licensing Branch
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Readiness: Staff Preparations
Guidance
for industry
Guidance for
NRC Staff
Training for
NRC Staff
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• Pre-application interaction:
– White paper, audit
– Topical report, Preliminary Safety
Information Document
• Integrated approach to reasonable assurance
of adequate protection
• Environmental reviews
Write SER
No SER
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Readiness: New Approaches
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Readiness: Project Team
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Potential Applicants
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High-Temperature Gas-
Cooled Reactors
(HTGR)
Liquid Metal Cooled Fast
Reactors
(LMFR)
Molten Salt Reactors
(MSR)
GE-H PRISM (VTR)
ARC
TerraPowerWestinghouse
Columbia Basin
Hydromine
Framatome
X-energy
StarCore
General Atomics
Kairos
Terrestrial
Thorcon
Flibe
TerraPower
Elysium
Liquid Salt Fueled
TRISO FuelSodium-Cooled
Lead-Cooled
Alpha Tech
Muons
Micro
Reactors
Oklo
Stationary
Transportable
Others
Others
Westinghouse
Liquid Salt Cooled
Developers that have submitted a RIS response
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Current and Anticipated Work
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Oklo Review Status
Oklo Aurora PowerhousePhoto Courtesy of Oklo, Inc
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• AOO – anticipated operational occurrence
• BDBE – beyond design basis event
• CFR – Code of Federal Regulations
• COL – combined license
• DBA – design basis accident
• DBE – design basis event
• DG – draft guide
• GE-H – GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
• HTGR – high-temperature gas-cooled reactor
Acronyms
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• ICN – ITAAC closure notification
• ITAAC – inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance
criteria
• LAR – license amendment request
• MSR – molten salt reactor
• NEICA – Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act
• NEIMA – Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act
• NRR – Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
• LMP – licensing modernization project
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Acronyms
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• LMFR – liquid metal cooled fast reactor
• LWR – light-water reactor
• NEI – Nuclear Energy Institute
• NRC – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• QA – quality assurance
• PISD – preliminary safety information document
• RIS – regulatory issue summary
• SER – safety evaluation report
• SMR – small modular reactor
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Acronyms
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• SSC – systems, structures and components
• TRISO – tristructural-isotropic
• UAMPS – Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems
• UIN – uncompleted ITAAC notification
• VPO – Vogtle Project Office
• VRG – Vogtle Readiness Group
• VTR – versatile test reactor
• WGSAR – Working Group on the Safety of Advanced
Reactors
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Acronyms