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A novel new consortium has announced participation in the American funding contest for new reactor designs. Proposing a high-temperature helium cooled reactor, the group features strong support from the state of New York.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Hoping to demonstrate new reactor concepts by 2022, the Department of Energy is running the second stage of a competition for cost-sharing support for new small modular reactor (SMR) development. On offer is access to up to $226\u00a0million, for which a range of companies have placed bids. Babcock & Wilcox\u2019s mPower reactor won the first round and was given access to $79\u00a0million in November 2012.<\/p>\n

National Project Management Corporation (NPMC) is leading the latest bid to be announced. It includes a cluster of regional partners in the state of New York: the state government itself, the City of Oswego, the Port Authority of Oswego, Empire State Development and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.<\/p>\n

Also in the team are the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company of South Africa and National Grid, the power grid operator based in the UK but with a US operation counting 3.3\u00a0million customers in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

Reactor concepts<\/h4>\n

The NPMC-led project specifies a gas turbine modular high-temperature reactor (GT-MHR) concept as a \u2019common nuclear engine\u2019 which could be adapted to three main tasks: generating electricity; supplying heat for industry or production of hydrogen; and a \u2019deep burn\u2019 of used nuclear fuel materials that would produce heat and power while simplifying waste disposal.<\/p>\n

This description matches the publicised benefits of General Atomics\u2019 GT-MHR, which was developed through the 1980s and 1990s, latterly with partners in Japan and Russia where a prototype was once intended to be built. However, the nameplate generating capacity of 165\u00a0MWe matches the former PBMR design rather than General Atomics\u2019 ~280\u00a0MWe GT-MHR, and General Atomics is not mentioned in the NPMC bid. General Atomics has actually submitted its own bid to the DoE based on a variation of GT-MHR known as the Energy Multiplier Module.<\/p>\n

PBMR\u2019s project in South Africa has been shelved, but the company\u2019s technology has certain parallels with the GT-MHR concept. Both are based on \u2019Triso\u2019 fuel particles where a 0.5\u00a0mm speck of uranium oxide fuel is contained in several layers of silicon and carbon and embedded in a graphite matrix. PBMR\u2019s design has these formed into tennis ball-sized pebbles that make up a large core, while GT-MHR has them in hexagonal prisms that build into a compact core block. Both designs also use helium as coolant, directly driving a turbine-generator set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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