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NuScale Nonproprietary © 2016 NuScale Power, LLC
NuScale Power Update Blazing the Trail to the Future of
Nuclear Energy Partners in Science and Technology
Up ‘n Atom Breakfast Mike McGough, NuScale Power
Idaho Falls, ID May 3rd, 2016
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Blazing the Trail to Commercialization
Brief NuScale History
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One-third scale Test Facility
NuScale Control Room Simulator
NuScale Engineering Offices Corvallis, Oregon
NuScale first of current US SMRs to begin design of commercial NPP.
NuScale technology in development and design since 2000 (DOE) MASLWR program, with INL, lessons from AP600/1000 ¼-scale testing facility built and operational
Electrically-heated 1/3-scale Integral test facility first operational in 2003
Began NRC design certification (DC) pre-application project in April 2008, >20K Mhrs
Acquired by Fluor in October 2011 >600 people currently on project, ~$410MM
spent project life-to-date ($12MM/mo) >250 patents pending/granted, 19 countries Portland, Corvallis, Rockville, Charlotte,
Richland, London US DOE SMR Awardee, 12/12/13, $217MM
A NuScale Power Module (NPM) includes the reactor vessel, steam generators, pressurizer and containment in an integral package that eliminates reactor coolant pumps and large bore piping (no LB-LOCA)
Each NPM is 50 MWe and factory built for easy transport and installation
Each NPM has its own skid-mounted steam turbine-generator and condenser
What is a NuScale Power Module?
Each NPM is installed below-grade in a seismically robust, steel-lined, concrete pool
NPMs can be incrementally added to match load growth - up to 12 NPMs for 600 MWe gross (~570 net) total output
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*Source: NRC
Size Comparison
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Coolant Flow Driven By Physics
Convection – energy from the nuclear reaction heats the primary reactor coolant causing it to rise by convection and natural buoyancy through the riser, much like a chimney effect
Conduction – heat is transferred through the walls of the tubes in the steam generator, heating the water (secondary coolant) inside them to turn it to steam. Primary water cools.
Gravity – colder (denser) primary coolant “falls” to bottom of reactor pressure vessel, cycle continues
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NuScale Fuel—(NuFuel HTP2 ™)
• Standard 17 X 17 PWR Fuel Assembly
• Half height • 37 FA’s/core • Enriched ~3.7% • ~ 4% MTU of GW-size
plant core • RFO 24-month cycle • ~1/3 core replaced • MOX capable • Areva design and Fab—
NuAB guidance
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Site Overview
annex building
warehouse
cooling towers A
cooling towers B
reactor building
administration building
radwaste building
switchyard
turbine building B
ISFSI (dry cask storage)
turbine building A
parking
control building
protected area fence
34.5 acres (~14 hectares) within the protected area fence
SAFETY
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Systems and Components Needed to Protect the Core: Reactor Pressure Vessel Containment Vessel Reactor Coolant System Decay Heat Removal System Emergency Core Cooling System Control Rod Drive System Containment Isolation System Ultimate Heat Sink Residual Heat Removal System Safety Injection System Refueling Water Storage Tank Condensate Storage Tank
Auxiliary Feedwater System Emergency Service Water System Hydrogen Recombiner or Ignition
System Containment Spray System Reactor Coolant Pumps Safety Related Electrical
Distribution Systems Alternative Off-site Power Emergency Diesel Generators Safety Related 1E Battery System Anticipated Transient without
Scram (ATWS) System
NuScale Safety Systems
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Core Damage Frequency Significantly Reduced Reduced
Source: NRC White Paper, D. Dube; basis for discussion at 2/18/09 public meeting on implementation of risk matrices for new nuclear reactors
More Barriers Between Fuel & Environment Conventional Designs 1. Fuel Pellet and Cladding 2. Reactor Vessel 3. Containment
NuScale’s Additional Barriers 4. Water in Reactor Pool 5. Stainless Steel Lined Concrete Reactor Pool 6. Biological Shield Covers Each Reactor 7. Reactor Building
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Ground level
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Smaller Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) Due to Safer Design
(depending on site characteristics)
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Innovative Advancements to Reactor Safety Nuclear fuel cooled indefinitely without AC or DC power*
WATER COOLING BOILING AIR COOLING
• 30 days is a minimum based on very conservative estimates.
*Alternate 1E power system design eliminates the need for 1E qualified batteries to perform ESFAS protective functions – Patent Pending
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How do we know it works?
NuScale Testing Programs
NuScale Reactor Qualification Test Plan
NuScale Reactor Qualification Test Plan outlines Design Certification and First Of A Kind Engineering (FOAKE) projects for reactor safety code development, validation, reactor design and technology maturation to reduce First Of A Kind (FOAK) design risk.
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Testing Progress
Test/Demonstration Program Test Facility Status
Critical Heat Flux Test – Initial Fuel Design Stern Lab, Canada Completed
Steam Generator Tube Inspection Feasibility Study Corvallis, Oregon Completed
SIET TF1; 3-Coil, Full-Length, Electrically Heated Steam Generator SIET, Piacenza, Italy Completed
SIET TF2; 252-Coils, full length, Prototypic Fluid-to-Fluid heat transfer SIET, Piacenza, Italy Completed
Upper Module Mock-up OIW, Vancouver, WA Completed
Fuel Mechanical and Hydraulic Richland, WA Completed
NIST-1 Facility; Integral System OSU, Corvallis, OR Critical Path Testing Complete
CRA and Drive Shaft Alignment and Drop Erlangen, Germany Under Construction
Steam Generator Flow Induced Vibration Erlangen, Germany Under Construction
CRA/CRAGT Flow Induced Vibration Erlangen, Germany Under Construction
Critical Heat Flux– NuScale Fuel Design w/AREVA HMP/HTP grids Karlstein, Germany Under Construction
Steam Generator Orifice Hydraulic Testing TBD (US Domestic) Bid Down Selection
Percentage of Required DCA Testing Completed: > 60%
Total Testing Expenditures to Date: $24 Million
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Full Length SG Test (TF-2) Construction/Hardware
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NIST-1 Testing Progress
All tests required to validate NRELAP5 for LOCA applications are complete • HP-01 (volume and elevation) • HP-02 (high pressure condensation) • HP-03 (DHRX characterization) • HP-04 (cooling pool characterization) • HP-05 (powered natural circulation flow) • HP-06 (CVCS discharge line break) • HP-07 (pressurizer spray line break) • HP-09 (ECCS RVV spurious opening) NRELAP5 test assessment is complete NRC inspection of NIST-1 is complete Status: • Facility completed shutdown, reconfiguration
and maintenance • Resumed testing week of Jan 4
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Preliminary NRELAP 5 Predictions of NIST-1
CVCS piping rupture (LOCA): • Excellent predictions of:
– reactor and containment vessel water levels
– reactor and containment vessel pressures through ECCS valve opening
• Significant margin to core uncover • NRELAP5 correctly captures LOCA physics
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SG Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) Test Hardware
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Tube Supports Vessel Head Tube Bending
Tube Bending Rig Machining of Tube Sheet
CRA and Drive Shaft Drop Alignment Test
Objectives: • Demonstrate Control Rod Assembly (CRA)
insertion with drive shaft support, CRA Guide Tube (CRAGT) and guide card misalignment and fuel assembly distortion.
• Measure fuel insertion rate profile under different operational conditions.
Status of Phase 1 Cold Test: • Test hardware delivered and being assembled • Start of testing = April 2016
CRA Drive Shaft
CRAGT
Upper CRA Drive Shaft Support
Fuel Assemblies Dashpot region
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CRA and Drive Shaft Drop Alignment Test Hardware
Support Beam Fuel Assembly Housing Guide Tube/Card Housing
Counterweight Guide Assembly
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NIST-1 Testing Progress
Installed new laser PIV system to measure local cooling pool liquid velocities next to containment shell
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Licensing Plan and Status
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RIS 2015-07 Response NRC Regulatory Information Summary (RIS) is for
budgeting, staffing and planning purposes Joint response by NuScale and UAMPS submitted on
June 17, 2015 DCA submittal no later than 12/31/2016 UAMPS COLA submittal by 1Q-2018 COLA to reference DCA for up to 12 modules COL site in Idaho including INL UAMPS teaming agreement with ENW identified
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Topical Report Submittals Title Submittal Date NRC Review/Development Status
1 Quality Assurance Program Description May 2015 Accepted for Review: 3 RAIs issued
2 Risk Significant Determination July 2015 Accepted for Review: 3 RAIs issued
3 Electrical System October 2015 Accepted for Review
4 Accident Source Term December 2015 Under NRC Acceptance Review
5 Emergency Planning Zone December 2015 Under NRC Acceptance Review
6 Highly Integrated Protection System December 2015 Accepted for Review
7 Containment Integrated Leak Rate Test March 2016 Under Development
8 AREVA Fuel and CR Topical Report Applicability to NuScale Design
March 2016 Under Development
9 Nuclear Analysis Codes and Methods June 2016 Under Development
10 Steady State Core Thermal-Hydraulics - Primary System Stability
July 2016 Under Development
11 LOCA Evaluation Model (NRELAP5 Code Description) July 2016 Under Development
12 VIPRE Subchannel Methodology September 2016 Under Development
13 Non LOCA Methodology September 2016 Under Development
14 Critical Heat Flux Correlation September 2016 Under Development
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Commercialization Plan and Status
NuScale Advisory Board (NuAB)
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The Genesis of Program WIN June 2010: Idaho Governor Butch Otter became Chair of
Western Governors Association (WGA) and sponsored Western nuclear energy policy
June 2011: “The Future of Nuclear Energy: Shaping a Western Policy” published: discusses SMR’s explicitly
Feb 2012: Otter creates Idaho Leadership in Nuclear Energy (LINE) Commission
June 2012: Utah Governor Gary Herbert becomes WGA Chair and sponsors development of a 10-year energy plan-patterned after Utah 10-year plan
June 2013: WGA 10-yr plan unveiled with stated goal to “Find ways to accelerate the introduction of SMRs into the marketplace.”
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First Deployment: UAMPS CFPP • Utah Associated Municipal
Power Systems (UAMPS) Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) will be first deployment, sited somewhere in Idaho.
• Site selection underway • DOE INL site use agreement • NRC COLA commitment • UAMPS consists of 45
members serving load in 8 western states.
• 33 UAMPS members are subscribers in CFPP
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NMIN – New Mexico Initiative for Nuclear
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New Mexico Initiative for Nuclear (NMIN)
Governor Martinez and Secretary David Martin (EMNRD) NM Energy Plan issued Sept 2015
Includes SMR “pre-feasibility” study DOE Agreed to provide funding NuScale-led task force assembled, KO 12/17/15 UAMPS El Paso Electric PNM Tri State G&T Los Alamos County Utilities Sandia National Lab City of Carlsbad Navajo Tribal Utilities Association Urenco
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Other Potential WIN Projects WIN-WA
ENW ownership, COD target ~2029 Some state and local forces want first WIN project Tri-Dec Siting, Wash St legislative committee visited November 2014. Heavy desire of Wash State for Supply chain Supported Wash study meeting 10/29, Wash Energy Summit 11/2
WIN-UT Replacement of retiring coal plants Feeds to CA COD target ~2030 UAMPS CFPP MUST succeed for this to be possible
WIN-AZ APS/SRP ownership, Navajo coal retirements COD could be as early as 2028/9 SRP has restarted siting studies, staffing up study effort 1Q16, funds budgeted
WIN-WY Coal conversion-driven, Hybrid Energy studies, COD ~ 2030 Replacement for Jim Bridger station? WY desire to enhance energy future for state as coal falls out of favor WY NuDep Studies, jointly with INL
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State senator: Washington small reactor report promising
The development of small modular reactors “has the potential for significant improvements in nuclear plant siting associated with cost, safety, permitting schedule, generation flexibility and site requirements.”
Brown is concerned that other states, including Idaho and Oregon, already are making a play for small modular reactor technology, making them direct regional competitors with Washington for possible new jobs.
On January 13th, 2016, Senator Brown introduced Senate Bill 6224 to streamline the application process.
Sen. Sharon Brown, R-Kennewick, visited the NuScale small modular nuclear reactor simulator.
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Project TIN (Tennessee Initiative) • TVA-led ownership consortium • COD Target ~2028/9 • 3-year effort to review and incorporate
NuScale design into long-term planning processes
• Active participation in NuAB, and working groups
• Active in NuScale NRC drop-ins and formal meetings
• ESPA submittal 5/12/16, COLA start late 2016
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Carolina Initiative for New Nuclear (CarolNN) Fluor and NuScale have strong Carolina roots
Fluor Power—Charlotte, NC Fluor Power—Greenville, SC NuScale—Charlotte
NC and SC strong Nuclear Heritage—14 Operating Plants, 2 under construction, 2 proposed McGuire 1&2 Catawba 1 & 2 Oconee 1,2 & 3 Harris H.B. Robinson 2 Brunswick 1 & 2 V.C. Summer 1, 2 & 3 W.S. Lee 1 & 2?
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Other States April 1, 2016, Wisconsin Governor Scott
Walker signed into law the removal of moratorium on new nuclear construction
Kentucky Considering similar new law,
State Senate passed bill lifting moratorium
Overall UAMPS CFPP Project Schedule
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Project Development (see detail)
Operations
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Licensing
Construction and Fabrication
Design & Engineering
Site Characterization
Start COLA
Submit COLA
NRC Issue COL
Submit DCA
NRC Issue DC
Draft DSRS
Final DSRS
Module 12 COD
Start Operational Readiness Program
Complete Operational Readiness Program
Module 1 COD
Operator Training Program Accreditation
Start Finalized Plant Design
Complete Final Plant Design
Reference Plant Design
Install Module 12
Install Module 1
Start Module Fabrication
Order Modules
Site Selection
Site Use Agreements
Define Team Members and structure
Develop Business Model
Onboard Partners
Site Prep & Mobilization
1st Fuel load
1st Safety Concrete Pour
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NPM Fabricator
NuScale Diverse Energy Platform (NuDEP) Initiative
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• SAFE • SMALL • SCALABLE • FLEXIBLE • RELIABLE
NuScale/UAMPS/ENW Study on Integration with Wind Farm
• NuScale includes unique capabilities for following electric load requirements as they vary with customer demand and rapid output variations from renewables: NuFollow™
• There are three means to change power output from a NuScale facility: – Dispatchable modules – taking one or more reactors offline for
extended periods of low grid demand or sustained wind output – Power Maneuverability – adjusting
reactor power for one or more modules (intermediate time frames)
– Turbine Bypass – bypassing turbine steam to the condenser (short time frames
• Explored integration with Horse Butte wind farm in Idaho
• Partnered with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and Energy Northwest
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Horse Butte Wind Farm
Commissioned in 2012 32 Vestas V100 turbines 1.8 MWe capacity per turbine 57.6 MWe total capacity 17,600 acres
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NuScale Paper Released 4/20/16 • Patterned after memory storage RAIR (Redundant Array of
Independent Discs)
• NuScale Redundant Array of Integrated Reactors (RAID)
• Produces Reliable power at 99.99% for 100MW, based on 12-module NuScale plant
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NuEx Tours – NIST, Control Room Simulator and UMM
Mike McGough Chief Commercial Officer [email protected] www.nuscalepower.com
The Element of Nu
Mike McGough Chief Commercial Officer [email protected] www.nuscalepower.com
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