Over 230 Attend NuScale Power’s “NuEx” – NuScale Exposition
August 25 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Speakers and Facility
Tours Showcase Safe, Reliable, Carbon-free, Baseload
Technology
NuScale Power hosted over 230 attendees at its NuScale
Exposition (also known as NuEx) on August 20 and 21, 2015, in
Corvallis, Oregon.
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Washington State Senator Sharon Brown
tours NuScale’s Upper Module Mock-up with NuScale Chief Commercial
Officer Mike McGough during last week’s NuScale Exposition in
Corvallis, OR. The full-scale mockup (with accurately sized and
located components) of the upper 1/3 of the NuScale Power Module
will give NuScale’s engineers important insights into the
inspection and maintenance activities that are essential to plant
operation. (Photo: Business Wire)
A notable list of speakers, including government officials,
industry representatives, and non-governmental organizations,
emphasized the important environmental and economic benefits of
NuScale’s baseload, carbon-free SMR technology.
“Washington State would save half a billion dollars by utilizing
assets we currently have,” stated Washington State Senator Sharon
Brown. “And small modular reactors are not your grandpa’s nuclear.
They are emerging technologies built on existing designs. New
nuclear is smaller, safer, and carbon-free.”
NuEx attendees were provided with a rare look into NuScale’s
test facilities, including the one-third-scale NuScale Integrated
System Test (NIST) facility, which has been in operation proving
the features of the NuScale Power ModuleTM since 2003; the
12-module, NuScale control room simulator, operational since May of
2012; and a full-scale mockup of the upper assembly of the NuScale
Power Module. Other exhibits that were on display at the event
included a full-scale representation of the nuclear core of the
NuScale reactor and a full-scale replica of a nuclear fuel
assembly.
“Our intent was to have all of our guests leave NuEx with a
thorough understanding of NuScale’s SMR technology and share in our
excitement that the NuScale Power Module will play a unique and
vital role in the next generation of carbon-free, baseload
electricity,” stated Mike McGough, NuScale’s Chief Commercial
Officer. “And based on the feedback we received, I think we
accomplished those goals.”
NuScale provided “poster session” displays staffed by members of
its design, engineering and licensing organizations describing
specific details of the NuScale design and development status.
Several of NuScale’s key supply chain members also participated in
the event.
About NuScaleNuScale Power,
LLC is developing a new kind of nuclear plant; a safer, smaller,
scalable version of pressurized water reactor technology, designed
with natural safety features. Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR), a
global engineering, procurement, and construction company with a
60-year history in commercial nuclear power, is the majority
investor in NuScale. As the sole winner of the second round of the
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) competitively-bid, cost-sharing
program to develop nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) technology,
NuScale's design offers the benefits of carbon-free nuclear power
but takes away the issues presented by the cost of installing large
capacity. A nuclear power plant using NuScale's technology is
comprised of individual NuScale Power Modules™, each producing 50
megawatts of electricity (gross) with its own factory-built
combined containment vessel and reactor vessel, and its own
packaged turbine-generator set. A power plant can include as many
as 12 NuScale Power Modules to produce as much as 600 MWe, gross
(570 net, nominal, after house loads). The reactor coolant is
driven by natural circulation and can be shut down safely with no
operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external water supply.
NuScale power plants are scalable - additional modules are added as
customer demand for electricity increases. NuScale's technology
also is ideally suited to supply energy for district heating,
desalination, and other applications. NuScale is headquartered in
Portland, Oregon and has offices in Corvallis, OR; Rockville, MD;
and Charlotte, NC. For more information visit:
www.nuscalepower.com.
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NuScale Power, LLCMike McGoughChief Commercial
Officer410-200-5375mmcgough@nuscalepower.com
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