Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States (2023) / Chapter Skim
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federal agencies -- Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Department of Commerce -- working on the different licensing and authorization processes regularly speak and work with one another when presented with an application. This close coordination across these lead agencies has several benefits: it may reduce the need for extensive modification to manage the export of new and advanced reactors and their technologies, and, given that the export of any individual advanced reactor by a U.S.
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2019) .27 Russia also has had at least two dozen entities working on advanced reactors, including molten salt reactor, liquid metal-cooled fast reactor, HTGR, and SMR designs, and offers other new power reactor options, such as floating NPPs (Allen and Milko 2017; World Nuclear News 2021)
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2) Finding Finding 10-3: As some growth scenarios indicate, there could be a significant increase in the number of deployed advanced reactors throughout the world by 2050.
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The Gen IV International Forum (GIF) , for example, originated in 2000 to discuss international collaboration for the development of nuclear energy systems using fourth generation nuclear reactors.
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competitive. Financing of nuclear projects in foreign countries has taken many forms, including the following (see Chapter 3 and IAEA 2018)
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advanced reactors in the international marketplace, which could limit the opportunities to build successful partnerships that the United States has used effectively to promote U.S. national security and global nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.
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These latter two projects address concerns about the international competitiveness of U.S. new and advanced reactors and the possible erosion of international safeguards and security standards as a consequence of market expansion for some countries.
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Increased commitment of U.S. resources to the three lead export control agencies will be needed to support the work of the Nuclear Suppliers Group on new and advanced reactors, including resources for and leadership in a review of new materials and technologies in conjunction with an internal U.S.
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M3 U.S. Regulatory Preparations for the Export of Advanced Reactors.
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. The NRC granted the DC granted the DC in July 2022 (World Nuclear News 2022)
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This type of design can provide flexible power operations and reduce costs by allowing for the use of non-safety-grade components for the balance of plant. The Natrium design can be optimized for specific markets such as electrical energy or process heat applications (e.g., hydrogen production)
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2018; NRC 2021b) and with Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on a Vendor Design Review for demonstration in Canada at the Ontario Power Generation Darlington site (X-energy 2021a)
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Microreactor conceptual designs cover the range of larger advanced reactor designs -- for example, liquid metal-cooled and gas-cooled reactors, thermal and fast neutron spectrum reactors (Palmieri, Corradini, and Wilson 2021)
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