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This support includes solicitation and procurement activities, contract administrative activities, and headquarters project management and technical activities. INL has provided technical support to NP 2010 in soil characterization, spent fuel transportation analysis, and economic analysis.
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• Common safety and licensing issues among the families of reactor designs are fully standardized. Standardized Design Completion The present schedules for completion of the full designs need to be accelerated to be consistent with the goal of determining cost and construction time estimates scheduled for mid-FY 2008 and completing design before the start of construction.
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Recommendation 2-6. DOE should evaluate the need for a reinvigorated R&D program to improve the performance of existing nuclear plants in a DOE-industry cost-shared effort separate from NP 2010.
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2004b. Application of Advanced Construction Technology to New Nuclear Plants, MPR Report 2610.
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2005. DOE NP 2010 Nuclear Power Plant Construction Infrastructure Assessment, MPR-2776.
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has engaged other governments, the international and domestic industry, and the research community in a wide-ranging effort to develop advanced next generation nuclear energy systems known as "Generation IV." The goals are to widen the applications and enhance the economics, safety, and physical protection of the reactors, to improve fuel cycle waste management, and to advance proliferation resistance in the coming decades -- that is, 2020 and beyond. OVERALL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Six nuclear reactor technology concepts were identified in the DOE-initiated international Generation IV Technology Roadmap (DOE, 2002)
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. There are three major strategic goals on the Generation IV technology roadmap: • Electricity generation at competitive cost in large and small reactors, • Use of process heat to produce alternative energy products (e.g., hydrogen)
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Each reactor concept research program was focused on its major viability issues: • SCWR: Advanced materials, chemistry, and heat transfer (T > 500ºC) , • GFR: Alternative fuel types and innovative safety concepts, • LFR: Lead corrosion and materials studies, modular reactor design, and • SFR: Development of actinide transmutation fuels, and reduction of capital costs through improved design features and power conversion technologies.
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Preconceptual design of the entire system, with 1. Conceptual design of the entire system, nominal interface requirements between sufficient for procurement specifications for subsystems, and established pathways for construction of a demonstration plant, and with disposal of all waste streams validated acceptability of disposal of all waste streams 2.
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. NEXT GENERATION NUCLEAR PLANT Program Description The NGNP program represents DOE's focused effort under the Generation IV program on the VHTR.
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In addition, certain fundamental decisions are to be made, including selection of the mission of the NGNP (efficient electricity production, process heat, hydrogen generation, or a combination of these) and the specific hydrogen generation technology.
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