T6 Design to Assembly Line: Understanding High-Volume Nuclear Reactor Licensing

To enable economies of scale for new advanced reactors, including microreactors, the NRC is streamlining high volume licensing processes to reduce timelines and support efficient deployment. The session will discuss staff activities to optimize regulatory reviews for standardized designs, manage approval of multiple projects simultaneously, and ensure that innovative nuclear technologies can be brought online faster. There is significant industry and market interest in rapid, high volume deployment of new technologies, potentially with deployment in 6 months from site identification. This session will provide a forum for interested parties to learn about what the NRC and industry are doing in this exciting area to achieve this goal.

• Jeremy Bowen, Director, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-power Production and Utilization Facilities, NRR/NRC

   

• Opening Remarks
  Jeremy Bowen, Director, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-power Production and Utilization Facilities, NRR/NRC
• Nth-of-a-Kind Microreactor Licensing and Deployment Considerations
  Jackie Harvey, Senior Project Manager, Advanced Reactor Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-power Production and Utilization Facilities, NRR/NRC
• Environmental Reviews for Nth-of-a-Kind Microreactors
  Donald Palmrose, Senior Reactor Engineer, Environmental Project Management Branch 2, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC
• Design to Assembly Line: Understanding High-Volume Nuclear Reactor Licensing
  Timothy Williamson, Director, Regulatory and Public Affairs, NOV Shepherd Power
• Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations
  Mohammed (Mo) Badal, Program Director, Installation Nuclear Energy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (OASA) Installation, Energy and Environment, U.S. Department of Defense
• Industry's Vision for Efficient Licensing: Policy, Regulation, and Innovation
  Spencer Klein, Senior Project Manager, Nuclear Energy Institute

• Jorge Hernandez Munoz, Project Manager, Advanced Reactor Licensing Branch 2, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-power Production and Utilization Facilities, NRR/NRC e-mail: jorge.hernandez@nrc.gov