CX-270335: SMR Reactor Vessel Manufacture/Fabrication/Demonstration Project – Electric Power Research Institute

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Nuclear-AMRC, and Sheffield Forgemasters proposes to 1) develop, test and demonstrate new methods for manufacture/fabrication of critical reactor pressure vessel (RPV) components which would enable vessel sections to be produced in a timeframe of less than 12 months, 2) eliminate up to 40% from the cost of manufacturing/fabricating a small modular reactor (SMR) RPV, while reducing the schedule by over 18 months, and 3) explore the acceleration of the deployment of a SMRs in the USA and UK (and ultimately throughout the world) through a project that will produce critical sections of a 2/3rds scale SMR.