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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vienna :
International Atomic Energy Agency,
2021.
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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