Review of DOE's Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program (2008) / Chapter Skim
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NUCLEAR POWER 2010 The Nuclear Power 2010 (NP 2010) program was established by DOE in 2002 to support the near-term deployment of new nuclear plants.
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• Estimate the capital costs and operation and maintenance costs, construction time, and levelized cost of electricity for the two plants. • Evaluate the business case for building new nuclear power plants, and pave the way for an industry decision to build new ALWR nuclear plants in the United States.
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• Common safety and licensing issues among the families of reactor designs are fully standardized. Standardized Design Completion While standardization of the COL application is stressed for each reactor design, it is not clear that the COLs would be standardized among the families of designs on common safety and licensing issues.
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THE GENERATION IV AND NUCLEAR HYDROGEN INITIATIVE PROGRAMS DOE has engaged other governments in a wide-ranging effort to develop advanced next-generation nuclear energy systems, known as Generation IV, with the goal of widening the applications and enhancing the economics, safety and physical protection of the reactors and improving fuel cycle waste management and proliferation resistance in the coming decades. Six nuclear reactor technology concepts were identified in the U.S.
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and VHTRs based on NGNP technology could be realized in four market segments where HTRs could make products at a lower cost than competing technologies: base-load electricity, combined heat and power, high-temperature process heat, and hydrogen. A long-term goal for the NGNP is to demonstrate hydrogen production as an energy carrier for a hydrogen economy.
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The NHI program is tightly tied to the NGNP program to develop a reactor capable of providing high-temperature process heat. NHI activities are coordinated with the larger DOE hydrogen program, led by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as well as with NGNP.
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Though NE currently focuses on the VHTR for process heat and the SFR for advanced fuel cycles, it should assess the cost-benefit of a single reactor system design to meet both needs. THE ADVANCED FUEL CYCLE INITIATIVE AND GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS Since 2002, the United States has been conducting a program of spent fuel reprocessing under the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI)
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Such advanced fuel cycle technologies would substantially reduce nuclear waste, simplify its disposition, and help to ensure the need for only one geologic repository in the United States through the end of this century. • Develop, demonstrate, and deploy advanced reactors that consume transuranic elements from recycled spent fuel.
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