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Technology Roadmap for Small Modular Reactor Deployment.

"Technology roadmaps have proven to be a useful management tool for evaluating, planning and strategizing the development of complex technological projects. This publication is intended to provide Member States with a set of generic roadmaps which can be used in the deployment of small modular...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vienna : International Atomic Energy Agency, 2021.
Colección:IAEA nuclear energy series ; no. NR-T-1.18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1. Background
  • 1.2. Objective
  • 1.3. Scope
  • 1.4. Structure
  • 2. SMALL MODULAR REACTORS AND THE TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP
  • 2.1. Current status of deployment
  • 2.2. Modular design and construction: Terminology
  • 2.3. Nuclear power infrastructure
  • 2.3.1. SMR deployment in a country with an existing nuclear power programme
  • 2.3.2. SMR deployment in a country without an existing nuclear power programme: The IAEA's Milestones approach
  • 2.4. Non-proliferation and safeguards
  • 2.5. Technology roadmap as a concept
  • 3. PROSPECTS, IMPEDIMENTS AND DEPLOYMENT INDICATORS
  • 3.1. Prospects
  • 3.1.1. Enhanced safety, energy security and carbon free power
  • 3.1.2. Smaller grids, remote locations, integration with renewables and replacement of ageing fossil fuelled plants
  • 3.1.3. Easier to site and smaller emergency planning zones
  • 3.1.4. Capacity factors and incremental additions of generating capacity
  • 3.1.5. Dispatchable integration with non-dispatchable renewables and the future grid
  • 3.1.6. Non-electrical applications and water usage
  • 3.1.7. Public acceptance, localization and decommissioning
  • 3.1.8. Economics and reduced debt financing
  • 3.2. Issues and impediments
  • 3.2.1. Economics and early adopter of first of a kind technology
  • 3.2.2. Licensing issues and the need for harmonization
  • 3.2.3. Fuel burnup
  • 3.2.4. Public acceptance
  • 3.2.5. Continued R&D
  • 3.2.6. Infrastructure considerations of SMRs in the context of the IAEA's Milestones approach
  • 3.2.7. Operation and maintenance of novel technology
  • 3.3. Indicators of SMR deployment
  • 3.3.1. Categories and indicators for SMR deployment
  • 3.3.2. Overview of the methodology
  • 4. STAKEHOLDERS AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
  • 4.1. Stakeholders
  • 4.1.1. Designer/supplier
  • 4.1.2. Owner/operating organization
  • 4.1.3. Technical support organization
  • 4.1.4. Investors
  • 4.1.5. Regulatory bodies
  • 4.1.6. Government
  • 4.1.7. Public
  • 4.1.8. Other stakeholders
  • 4.2. Regulatory frameworks
  • 5. TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP FOR NEAR TERM DEPLOYABLE SMR TECHNOLOGY
  • 5.1. Generic roadmap for the owner/operating organization
  • 5.1.1. Task 1: Project creation
  • 5.1.2. Task 2: Planning, financing, contracting and siting
  • 5.1.3. Task 3: Site specific design and engineering support
  • 5.1.4. Task 4: Licensing and regulatory oversight
  • 5.1.5. Task 5: Procurement, supplier development and qualification
  • 5.1.6. Task 6: Construction
  • 5.1.7. Task 7: Training and initial startup
  • 5.1.8. Task 8: Operations, spent fuel/waste management and decommissioning
  • 5.2. Generic roadmap for the designer/supplier
  • 5.2.1. Task 1: Project creation, conceptual design, funding and economic studies
  • 5.2.2. Task 2: Basic design and engineering development
  • 5.2.3. Task 3: Detailed design, testing and validation
  • 5.2.4. Task 4: Fuel design assessment and qualification