Regulatory Risk Reduction for Advanced Reactor Technologies: FY 2017 Framework Modernization Proposals and Status
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
The regulatory framework governing the licensing of commercial nuclear power plants in the U.S. developed over recent decades with a strong emphasis towards assessing large light water reactor (LWR) safety. However, recent shifts in energy market needs and priorities has brought new and different types of nuclear technologies into consideration for applications that include but are not limited to electric power generation. In order to realize the benefits in efficiency, reliability and safety that advanced (non-LWR) can potentially offer, efforts are needed to modernize the existing regulatory framework to make technical licensing requirements more compatible with radically new nuclear technologies. To serve the needs of the energy market, this update should be performed on a schedule conducive to deployments projected to begin as early as 2025. Beginning in 2016, an initiative was launched to amend the U.S. nuclear power reactor licensing framework by making the technical requirements contained therein more generically compatible with non LWR technology. The Licensing Modernization Project (LMP) was established as an industry-led team of subject matter experts managed by Southern Company Services and supported through a cost sharing arrangement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Technical and programmatic coordination for the effort was also provided by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the Licensing Department of the Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART) Program located at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and others.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1408735
- Report Number(s):
- INL/EXT-17-42791
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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