The Tennessee Valley authority submitted a request to the American Nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Committee to build a small modular reactor Ge Vernova Hitachi Energy Bwrx-300 in Clinch River.
This means that the authority of the Tennessee (VAT) Valley is the first public service in the United States to present a application permission application for BWRX-300 technology, and was described through the president and the executive leader of TVA, Don Moul, as “a vital step” for TVA, as well as for the region and the United States, accelerating the progression of new nuclear technologies, its source chain and its chain. “The VAT has made the paintings to advance in the design and expand the first application for BWRX-300 technology, creating a trace for other public facilities that decide to build the same technology,” he said, adding that TVA “is interested in paintings with an administration to boost complex nuclear technologies.
VAT invested in the popular design of the BWRX-300 in the context of a technical collaboration agreement with the production of Ontario energy, the Polish corporate green energy and the nuclear energy of GE Vernova Hitachi (GVH, previously Ge Hitachi Nuclear Energy, GEH). It also directs a coalition of public service corporations and partners of the origin chain that requested a concession of USD 800 million of the Ministry of Energy of the United States that increases the structure of the first small modular reactor in the United States and a subsidy of USD 8 million to the charge of licenses.
Small modular reactors – SMR – are reactors with a smaller and more modular design than the nuclear advertising fleet in the United States. In addition to providing protection improvements, its smallest impression and its modular design means that they can potentially be built faster, they are to use and adapt more in the landscape due to its compact size, VAT said.
TVA already has a first site permit for SMRs on the Clinch River site, certifying that the site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is suitable for the construction of a nuclear strength of the site safety, the environment has an effect and emergency planning. It also ended and presented an environmental report for the allocation to the Nuclear Regulatory Committee, and states that the preparation of the SMR site can begin in 2026.
“VAT investment in the popular BWRX-300 generation design will increase its deployment, helping to comply with the development of power and power security,” said GVH’s president and executive leader, Craig Ranson. “This step, in addition to this month’s resolution in the province of Ontario, to build the first SMR in the western world, shows that this generation is complex and real. “
The BWRX-Tres hundred design is an SMR of three hundred MWE water-cooled flow with passive protection systems that exploit the design and license base of the Burbujeante water reactor ESBWR evolved through Geh. Earlier this month, the Canadian province of Ontario approved the OPG to begin the construction of the first of the 4 BWRX-Tres hundred sets planned on Darlington’s nuclear task site.