Complex nuclear plants have high costs. Documenting and maintaining information contributes a large share of those costs. Improving methods to design, construct and operate nuclear plants lowers costs. Improving design processes could help manage nuclear project costs, birth-to-death. Improving methods that manage design basis information before, during and after construction would not only lower initial nuclear costs, but also provide more complete, accurate information for operations over plant life. Nuclear safety would benefit. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) offers a unique opportunity to advance nuclear design methods to improve cost performance. Better design methods could automatically track changes to critical design content reducing laborious effort to update designs, speeding development. They would enhance information sharing. The commercial NGNP project is a significant opportunity to improve commercial nuclear plant safety design. The U.S. DOE should promote innovative nuclear design processes with the NGNP. Providing a single, consistent design framework on a modern data platform would make the NGNP the nuclear industry’s “Go to the Moon” project.
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18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
May 17–21, 2010
Xi’an, China
Conference Sponsors:
- Nuclear Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-4931-6
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Improve Safety Lower Cost: Demonstrate Nuclear Design Technology With DOE’s Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Available to Purchase
J. J. Hunter
J. J. Hunter
Core, Inc., Greeley, CO
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J. K. August
Core, Inc., Arvada, CO
J. J. Hunter
Core, Inc., Greeley, CO
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ICONE18-29801, pp. 191-203; 13 pages
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April 8, 2011
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August, JK, & Hunter, JJ. "Improve Safety Lower Cost: Demonstrate Nuclear Design Technology With DOE’s Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)." Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. 18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering: Volume 3. Xi’an, China. May 17–21, 2010. pp. 191-203. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE18-29801
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