Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMR-160 (Phase 1 Only)

SMR, LLC is developing an innovative Small Modular Reactor called the SMR-160 that will provide 160 MW(e) of safe, dependable, carbon-free power to global energy markets, while creating thousands of well-paying U.S. engineering and manufacturing jobs, growing this nation’s economy and supporting the revitalization of Camden, NJ. The SMR-160 is designed for unconditional safety and represents a product solution optimized for security, minimum land use, affordability, and utilization of diverse passive safety features. Planned for operation by 2026, the SMR-160 offers an innovative next-generation solution for advancing safe and competitive commercial nuclear power both in the United States and worldwide. SMR, LLC has over six (6) years of direct reactor facility design experience, supported by world-class organizations in the nuclear industry that have been providing experience and expertise in design, licensing, construction, commissioning, and operations. Decades of this design experience is being made available to insure the success of this project.

SMR, LLC’s proposed project will yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate SMR passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR-160 and other SMR designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. NRC and international regulators. Multi-purposed and flexible by design, the planned test platforms will provide significant benefit to other advanced reactors employing passive and natural-circulation concepts. In coordination with expert collaborators, this project will produce a database of experimental data for direct application to validation of the SMR-160 power plant primary and safety systems, and with extensible application to other natural circulation light water reactor designers. Industry will directly benefit through the resulting extension of these phenomenological databases necessary to validate system concepts and increase confidence in the system analysis codes used throughout plant design.