Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation – Micro Modular Reactor (MMR)

Описание: Presentation by James Voss, Managing Director, USNC Australia.

Australian Nuclear Association ANA2023 Conference, held Friday 6 October 2023 at the Aerial UTS Function Centre, Ultimo, NSW.

Introduced by Michelle Durant, Managing Director at The Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering - AINSE Limited.

USNC’s Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) is a 45 MWth or 15 MWe generating plant. It is a high temperature gas cooled reactor. Everything about the MMR has been designed for safety. Lessons learned from previous nuclear incidents – Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima – have been fully integrated into the design to ensure safety.

Ongoing licensing in Canada and the United States for USNC’s first two projects have affirmed that the MMR can be deployed with zero set back distance. In Illinois, MMR is being developed for installation within the center of a university campus with over 50,000 students, faculty and staff circulating nearby. This is achievable because of the absence of credible events that can lead to the release of radioactive material from the MMR. The plants are “walk away safe” requiring no operator intervention or the availability of sophisticated external safety systems to assure performance.