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Office of Nuclear Energy Update
Dr. Peter LyonsAssistant Secretary for Nuclear Energyy gy
U.S. Department of Energy
Nuclear Energy Advisory CommitteeNuclear Energy Advisory CommitteeWashington, DCJune 12, 2012
President Obama’s Nuclear Energy GoalsNuclear Energy Goals
“We can build the next generationWe can build the next‐generation nuclear reactors that are smaller and
safer and cleaner and cheaper.”
The Ohio State University‐March 22, 2012
“With rising oil prices and a warmingWith rising oil prices and a warming climate, nuclear energy will only become more important. That’s why, in the United
States we’ve restarted our nuclearStates, we ve restarted our nuclear industry as part of a comprehensive
strategy to develop every energy source.”
Nuclear Security Summit‐March 26, 2012
Secretary Chu Visits Vogtle
“The resurgence of nuclearThe resurgence of nuclear energy starts here in Georgia.”
“Nuclear energy is a critical part of President Obama's all‐of‐the‐above energy strategy.”
Secretary Steven ChuFebruary 15, 2012
Recent Key Events
NE Reorganization
NEAC MembershipNEAC Membership
Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Final Report Issued January 26 2012Future‐ Final Report Issued January 26, 2012
Small Modular Reactor Program Approved
Fuels with Enhanced Accident Tolerance
NEUP Awards
FY 13 Budget
Proposed Organizational RealignmentOrganizational Realignment
The roles and responsibilities of the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretaryd h hi f i ffi ill b lid d i i l i iand the Chief Operating Officer will be consolidated into a single position, NE‐2.
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear EnergyNE‐1/2
Chief Operating
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear EnergyNE‐1/2NE‐2
Current Proposed
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Facility
Operations/Chief Operating
NE‐3
Office of Human Capital & Business Services
NE‐21
Chief Operating Officer
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Facility
NE‐3
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary/Chief Operating Officer
Operations/Chief Operating Officer
ADAS Deputy COO
Office of Budget & Planning
NE‐22
for Nuclear Facility Operations
Idaho Operations Office
Idaho Operations Office
Office of Integrated Safety & Program Assurance
NE‐31
Office of Human Capital & Business Services
NE‐33
Office of Budget &NE‐34
Office of Facilities Management
NE‐31
Program Assurance
Office of Facilities Management
NE‐32
Office of Budget & Planning
Proposed Organizational RealignmentProposed Organizational Realignment
A new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Innovative Science and Technology, NE‐4, will be established the Office of Advanced Modeling and Simulation will be transferred (from NE‐7) the Office of Advanced Modeling and Simulation will be transferred (from NE 7) a new Office of Innovative Nuclear Research will be established and will report to the new DAS
Current Proposed
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Science and Technology
Innovation
NE‐4
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactor
Technologies
NE‐7
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Facility
Operations/Chief Operating Officer
NE‐3
Office of Advanced Modeling & Simulation
NE‐41Office of Advanced Modeling &
Simulation
NE‐71
Office of Light Water Reactor Technologies
NE‐72
Idaho Operations Office
NE‐31 NEET, NSUF
Office of Innovative Nuclear Research
NE‐42Technologies
Office of Integrated Safety & Program Assurance
Office of Facilities Management
NE‐32
NEUP, SBIR
RFM RRIRFM‐RRI
Proposed Organizational RealignmentProposed Organizational Realignment
Current Proposed
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactor
Technologies
NE‐7Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Nuclear Reactor Technologies
NE‐7
Office of Advanced Modeling & Simulation
NE‐71Office of Light Water Reactor
Technologies
NE‐72
Office of Light Water Reactor Technologies
NE‐72
Office of Gas Cooled Reactor Technologies
NE‐73
Office of Advanced Reactor Technologies
NE‐74
Office of Space & Defense Power Systems
NE‐75
Office of Advanced Reactor Concepts
NE‐74
Office of Space & NE‐75
Defense Power Systems
Current OrganizationAssistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Dr. Peter B. Lyons, Assistant SecretaryShane Johnson, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee
NE‐1/2
Office of Policy, Integration & Communication
John Gross
Program Integration Council
NE Senior Managers
NE‐2.1
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fuel Cycle Technologies
Monica Regalbuto
NE‐5
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Nuclear Energy
Policy and Cooperation Ed McGinnis
NE‐6Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Nuclear Facility Operations/Chief Operating
OfficerDennis Miotla
NE‐3
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactor
TechnologiesJohn Kelly
NE‐7
Office of Systems Engineering & Integration
Robert Price
Office of Fuel Cycle Research & Development
NE‐51
NE‐52
Office of International Nuclear Energy Policy
Michelle Scott, Acting
Office of International Nuclear F l M t
NE‐61
NE‐62Idaho Operations Office
Richard Provencher, Manager Office of Human Capital & Business Services
NE‐33
Office of Advanced Modeling & Simulation
Trevor Cook, Acting
NE‐71
Office of Light Water Reactor Technologies
NE‐72
ADASRichard Stark
Deputy COOSusan Johnson, Acting
NE 54
Research & DevelopmentAndy Griffith
Office of Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition Research & Development
William Boyle
NE‐53
Fuel ManagementAlan Brownstein
Office of Integrated Safety & Program Assurance
Mike Worley
NE‐31
Offi f F iliti M t
NE‐32
Deborah Sharpe
Office of Budget & Planning
Patrick Edgerton, Acting
NE‐34
Rebecca Smith‐Kevern
Office of Gas Cooled Reactor TechnologiesTom O’Connor
NE‐73
Office of Advanced ReactorNE‐74
Office of Uranium Management and Policy
William Szymanski
NE‐54Office of Facilities ManagementTracey Bishop
Office of Space & Defense Power Systems
Owen Lowe
NE‐75
Office of Advanced Reactor Concepts
Tom O’Connor, Acting
Proposed Organization
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear EnergyDr Peter B Lyons Assistant Secretary
Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee
NE‐1/2Chief Operating Officer
Proposed Organization
Dr. Peter B. Lyons, Assistant SecretaryDennis Miotla, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Advisory Committee
Senior Advisors
Office of Human Capital & Business ServicesDeborah Sharpe
NE‐21Office of Budget &
PlanningPatrick Edgerton
NE‐22
p gDennis Miotla
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fuel Cycle Technologies
NE‐5
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Nuclear Energy
P li d C ti
NE‐6
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Facility
O ti
NE‐3
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactor
Technologies
NE‐7
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Science and Technology
I ti
NE‐4
TechnologiesMonica Regalbuto
Office of Systems Engineering & Integration
Robert Price
NE‐51
Policy and Cooperation Ed McGinnis
Office of International Nuclear Energy Policy
Michelle Scott Acting
NE‐61
OperationsTracey Bishop, Acting
Idaho Operations OfficeRichard Provencher, Manager
TechnologiesJohn Kelly
Office of Advanced Modeling & Simulation
Trevor Cook Acting
NE‐41Office of Light Water Reactor
TechnologiesRebecca Smith‐Kevern
NE‐72
InnovationShane Johnson, Acting
Robert Price
Office of Fuel Cycle Research & Development
Andy Griffith
NE‐52
Office of Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition
NE‐53
Michelle Scott, Acting
Office of International Nuclear Fuel ManagementAlan Brownstein
NE‐62Office of Innovative Nuclear
ResearchMike Worley, Acting
NE‐42Office of Facilities Management
Tracey Bishop
NE‐31
Office of Space & NE‐75
Trevor Cook, Acting Rebecca Smith‐Kevern
Office of Advanced Reactor Technologies
Tom O’Connor, Acting
NE‐74
Office of Uranium Management and Policy
William Szymanski
NE‐54
Nuclear Fuel Disposition Research & Development
William Boyle
Defense Power SystemsOwen Lowe
NEAC Membership List Going ForwardGoing Forward
Outgoing NEAC Members Outgoing Chair and Vice ChairOutgoing NEAC Members
1. John Ahearne
2. Allen Sessoms
3. Marvin Fertel
Outgoing Chair and Vice Chair
– William Martin
– John Ahearne
4. Thomas Cochran
5. Neil Todreas
N M b
New Chair and Co‐Chair
– Richard Meserve
– Susan Eisenhower New Members
1. Richard Meserve
2. Susan Eisenhower
3. Matthew Bunn
Notes:
Outgoing members officially rotate out of NEACon September 30, 20123. Matthew Bunn
4. Regis Matzie
5. Margaret Chu
6. Alfred Sattelberger
on September 30, 2012
Total number of NEAC members is 23 and it will decline to 18 on October 1, 2012
7. Mujid Kazimi
Blue Ribbon CommissionRecommendationsRecommendations
1. A new, consent‐based approach to siting future nuclear waste management facilities.
2. A new organization dedicated solely to implementing the waste management program and empowered with the authority and resources to succeed.p g p y
3. Access to the funds nuclear utility ratepayers are providing for the purpose of nuclear waste management.
4. Prompt efforts to develop one or more geologic disposal facilities.
5. Prompt efforts to develop one or more consolidated storage facilities.
6. Prompt efforts to prepare for the eventual large‐scale transport of spent nuclear fuel and high‐level waste to consolidated storage and disposal facilities when such facilities become availablefacilities become available.
7. Support for continued U.S. innovation in nuclear energy technology and for workforce development.
8. Active U.S. leadership in international efforts to address safety, waste management, p y gnon‐proliferation, and security concerns.
Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven ChuStatement on the BRC Recommendations
Th D t t i th t th BRC R tThe Department recognizes that the BRC Report represents “a critical step toward finding a sustainable approach to disposing used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste ”fuel and nuclear waste.
The Department acknowledges that “the specifics of a new strategy for managing our nation’s used n clear f el ill need to be addressed innuclear fuel will need to be addressed in partnership with Congress.”
The Department “will work in parallel to begin i l i h ” b kiimplementing the new strategy” by taking sensible steps toward the implementation of near‐term recommendations.
Small Modular Reactors
Many potential benefits from SMRs:Many potential benefits from SMRs:– Enhanced safety from integral design– Significant job creation opportunitiesg j pp– Shorter construction time – less financial risk – Lower capital cost – less financing required– Could be air‐cooled– Security advantages from underground sitingCould replace aging fossil plants provide– Could replace aging fossil plants – provide low‐carbon energy to address GHG goals
Advanced LWR Fuels with Enhanced Accident ToleranceAccident Tolerance
Vision:Vision:
Mission:Mission:
LWR fleet with enhanced accident tolerance providing a substantial fraction of the national clean energy needs
LWR fleet with enhanced accident tolerance providing a substantial fraction of the national clean energy needs
Develop advanced fuels and non‐intrusive reactor system components (e.g. instruments, auxiliary power sources) with improved performance, reliability and safety characteristics during normal operations and accident conditions
Develop advanced fuels and non‐intrusive reactor system components (e.g. instruments, auxiliary power sources) with improved performance, reliability and safety characteristics during normal operations and accident conditions
10‐year Goals• Insert a LTA into a operatingcommercial reactor
10‐year Goals• Insert a LTA into a operatingcommercial reactor
Must be acceptable to vendors/utilities• Better safety performance (e.g. during normal,design basis accidents and beyond design b d )
Must be acceptable to vendors/utilities• Better safety performance (e.g. during normal,design basis accidents and beyond design b d )• Demonstrate non‐intrusive
components that enhancesafety (e.g. instrumentation with enhanced accident
• Demonstrate non‐intrusivecomponents that enhancesafety (e.g. instrumentation with enhanced accident
basis accidents)• Reliability and fuel configurations similar to current fleet
• Acceptable economicsbl i d li i
basis accidents)• Reliability and fuel configurations similar to current fleet
• Acceptable economicsbl i d li itolerance)tolerance) • Favorable neutronics and licensing
characteristics• Favorable neutronics and licensingcharacteristics
NEUP Award Recipients FY 2009 FY 2012
UW
WSU
FY 2009 – FY 2012
ISUBSU
U of I
BU
UMLUMN
RPI
SU MIT
OSU
CBC
LTCSDSU
10
UC, Berkeley
UC, Davis
CU
CSM
CSU MC
U f I
IIT
NU
Purdue
ND
UMD
JHU
U‐M
MU
UNR
AU
CCNYHunter College
SU
SUNY, Stony Brook
MIT
CSU CWRU
OSU
WUUC
PSU
Pitt Drexel
URI
USU
UU
C
LTC
UW‐Madison
ASU
UC, IrvineCSULBUCLA
UCSB
CSMGW
GIT
U of IKSU
UK
MST
MU
MSU
NCSU
UNC‐CHUNM
UNLV
CUFMU
UTK
VTVCU
UA
U of A
UFL
GITMSU
ASU
SCSU MTCUSC
UT, Austin Texas A&M
UH
UT, Dallas
UT, Arlington
NEUP has awarded $218 1 M UFLNEUP has awarded $218.1 Mto 79 schools in 33 States andthe District of Columbia
FY 2012-2013 Budget Summaryg y
FY 2012 Adjusted
FY 2013 Request
FY 2013 House Appropriations
FY 2013 Senate Appropriations
Program Committee Committee
Integrated University Program 5,000 0 5,000 0SMR Licensing Technical Support 67,000 65,000 114,000 65,000Reactor Concepts RD&D 114,871 73,674 126,660 73,674Fuel Cycle R&D 186 260 175 438 138 716 193 138Fuel Cycle R&D 186,260 175,438 138,716 193,138Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies 74,670 65,318 75,000 65,318Radiological Facilities Management 69,510 51,000 51,000 66,000Idaho Facilities Management O&M 154,097 144,220 154,220 144,220 13‐D‐905, RHLLW 6,280 6,280 6,280 13‐E‐200, APIE 1,500 1,500 1,500Idaho Facilities Management 154,097 152,000 162,000 152,000Idaho Sitewide Safeguards and Security 93,350 95,000 93,350 93,000International Nuclear Energy Cooperation 2,983 3,000 3,000 3,000Program Direction 91,000 90,015 90,015 92,015Nuclear Waste Disposal 25 000Nuclear Waste Disposal 25,000
Use of Prior Year Balances/Reprogramming (17,700)Total, Office of Nuclear Energy 858,741 770,445 883,741 785,445
Other Defense Activities
Prior Year Nuclear Waste Fund
15
Prior Year Nuclear Waste Fund
Nuclear Waste Disposal (New)