Economic and Employment Impacts of Small Modular Reactors - SMR

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Nuclear Generation Capacity (Gwe) 700 650 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 Figure 3 Projected International Nuclear Capacity (Total) EIA Ref. Case IAEA High Case 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 Nuclear Generation Capacity (Gwe) Figure 4 Projected International Nuclear Capacity Additions 30 EIA Ref. Case 25 IAEA High Case 20 15 10 5 0 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 SMR Share of Nuclear Market There are two scenarios presented for SMR market share as a percentage of new nuclear power installations Moderate Deployment and Disruptive Technology. Both scenarios assume that SMRs capture a growing piece of the overall nuclear capacity additions from the time of their initial commercial deployment through 2030. Increasing demand in nuclear capacity is assumed to result in a corresponding increase in demand for SMR systems. The first year of possible commercial manufacture for SMR systems is assumed to be 2015. This is based on the published intentions of light water SMR manufacturers to submit design certification applications to the NRC beginning in 2011, at the time the present study was initiated (NuScale Power, n.d.; Babcock & Wilcox Company, 2009; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2010). The actual time between applications for design certification to SMR 18
manufacture and deployment in a commercial power setting may be significantly longer than the four years projected. In both of the SMR market share cases, the growth is expected to be linear between the low point in 2015 to a high point in 2030; therefore, if actual commercial manufacture of SMR units begins after 2015, a corresponding linear shift in the economic outputs would likely occur in the years after 2030. The Moderate Deployment scenario was applied to each of the capacity growth scenarios to provide projections for Low, Moderate, and High SMR unit counts. This scenario represents a slow but steady increase in the market share for SMR systems. In this scenario, SMRs are assumed to begin at a 2% capture rate in 2015, culminating in a capture of 32% of nuclear capacity additions by 2030. Th embrace SMR technology such that there is a significant replacement of large-‐scale nuclear facilities by SMRs. In this case, SMRs are assumed to capture 75% of nuclear additions by 2030. As previously discussed, numerous characteristics of proposed SMR designs can serve to overcome barriers that have limited the growth of the nuclear power industry (Ingersoll, 2009; Carelli et al., 2010). Such characteristics include: Scalability to meet the increasing demand of developing energy markets -‐ Incremental cost benefits realized from modular factory construction of reactor and turbine components Improved transportability Reduced site construction times Longer fuel cycles Placement of the reactor vessel underground to improve security from terrorist and proliferation threats Incorporating off-‐site refueling and off-‐site spent fuel storage for use in undeveloped regions Incorporating inherent and passive safety features Reduced dependence on water as a coolant opening up areas previously unsuited for nuclear plants such as the arid, western U.S. The disruptive scenario is matched with the High nuclear capacity growth scenario to represent a highest possible SMR market potential. The data in Table 2 summarizes the projections for SMR market share of new nuclear power capacity for each scenario. 19
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