TH23 Constructing Our Energy Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Reactor Construction

Innovative, economical, and safe construction is critical to realizing the perceived momentum of advanced reactors. This session will be devoted to a discussion of challenges for advanced reactor construction and new construction trends and enabling technologies being considered by the industry, the DOE, and academia to overcome those challenges. The session will also provide a forum to discuss the regulatory implications of the proposed advances and approaches. Leading experts from industry, national laboratories, and research institutions will present their views and participate in open discussion among the panel and with the audience on the challenges and opportunities for advanced reactor construction.

• Louise Lund, Director, Division of Engineering, RES/NRC

   

• Introductory Remarks
  Louise Lund, Director, Division of Engineering, RES/NRC
• National Reactor Innovative Center Advanced Construction Technology Initiative
  Ashley Finan, Director, Reactor Innovation Center, Idaho National Laboratory
• Progress and Lessons Learned on Advanced Construction Technologies for New Small Modular Reactor Projects
  Juswald Vedovi, Senior Operations Leadership Manager, General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy
• Design and Construction Considerations in Conceptual Design of Advanced Reactors
  Bret Tegeler, Consulting Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Company
• Advanced Reactors Construction
  Hasan Charkas, Principal Project Manager, Electric Power Research Institute

• Jinsuo Nie, Structural Engineer, Structural, Geotechnical and Seismic Engineering Branch, Division of Engineering, RES/NRC e-mail: Jinsuo.Nie@nrc.gov