Several years ago, GE partnered with Hitachi to develop new nuclear power technologies. The first BWRX-300 small sized reactor is making progress toward starting construction in Ontario, and perhaps in Tennessee in a few years.
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Here in the US, the Tennessee Valley Authority is planning to build a BWRX-300 at its Clinch River site, near Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
From the Power link…
In March 2023, GEH, TVA, Ontario Power Generation (OPG), and Synthos Green Energy (SGE) agreed to team up to advance the global deployment of the BWRX-300 SMR. Through a technical collaboration agreement that was announced in Washington, D.C., TVA, OPG, and SGE agreed to invest in the development of the BWRX-300 standard design and detailed design for key components, including the reactor pressure vessel and internals. GEH, meanwhile, said it was committed to standard design development and anticipated a total investment of about $400 million associated with the development.
Each contributor said it would fund a portion of GEH’s overall cost and collectively would form a “Design Center Working Group” with the purpose of ensuring the standard design would be deployable in multiple jurisdictions. The long-term goal is for the BWRX-300 design to be licensed and deployed in Canada, the U.S., Poland, and beyond.
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In the meantime, there are two primary items on TVA’s to-do list. “Right now, the two biggest things that we have on our list are completing the standard design work, and then the construction permit application,” Boerschig said, noting the standard design is “somewhere north of 75% complete” and that TVA’s plan is to submit the construction permit application “sometime around mid-year of this year.”
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_ Pete