Broad Application Test Reactor cost reduction study

Technical Report · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10150361

Sekot, J P; Amidei, W; Kologi, A L; Lopez, D A; McDaniel, J H; Mousseau, D R; Motloch, C G; Pierce, R L; Rogers, N K; Ryskamp, J M; Sherick, D M; Sorman, K L; Stanley, V R; Werner, J E ^[1]

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1. USDOE Idaho Field Office, Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

A Broad Application Test Reactor (BATR) is needed to provide nuclear testing capacity and capability for future testing needs. The BATR concept is expected to consider a broad range of test applications. The present day costs of design and construction of new nuclear facilities demands that methods, processes, and requirements be critically reviewed and improved if these facilities are to be affordable in the future. The cost of major new projects in this country has been escalating faster than the rate of inflation. For example, the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), a reactor built at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) in the early sixties, cost about $38M in 1960 dollars. Estimates to build that same reactor today range as high as $1B. Although somewhat different in mission, but in many respects comparable to theATR in function, size, and complexity, the Advanced Neutron Source (ANS) proposed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is currently estimated to cost about $2B for design and construction. This report presents cost concerns, cost reduction ideas, and recommendations that were identified and developed by the Cost Reduction Study Team for consideration by the BATR Design Team.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 10150361
• Report Number(s): EGG-NRE-10735; ON: DE93013741
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Mar 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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