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CASL Industry Council Meeting

April 4-5, 2017

Courtyard Marriott Charleston Historic District

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Ensure CASL provides effective leadership advancing the

Modeling and Simulation state-of-the art in the nuclear industry.

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Industry Council Mission

Ensure that CASL solutions are “used and useful”

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Industry Council Meeting Goals

Provide an opportunity for engagement between industry stakeholders and CASL researchers.

Discuss CASL and industry priorities to ensure that they are aligned.

Present and seek feedback on the progress on CASL’s R&D activities and plans.

Identify strategic collaborations between industry and CASL Focus Areas.

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Industry Council Updates• Industry Council leadership change

– None

• New IC Members– Korean Hydro & Nuclear Power

• Retired IC Members

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Nuclear Plant Owners

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Dominion Overview• Overview

– Serves utility and retail customers in 14 states– 24,300 MWe generation by diverse assets– 63,800 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines– 34,200 miles of gas trans, dist, gathering and storage pipeline– Gas acquisitions and major expansions of gas infrastructure (Cove Point, Atlantic Coast

Pipeline)– Nuclear generation supported by licensed in-house methods for reload core design and

safety analysis• Nuclear Plants

– Millstone 2 – 869.5 MWe 1975 (2035) CE 4-Loop– Millstone 3 – 1210 MWe 1986 (2045) W 4-Loop– Surry 1 & 2 – 1676 MWe 1972,1973 (2032, 2033) W 3-loop – North Anna 1 & 2 – 1892 MWe 1978, 1980 (2038, 2040) W 3-loop

• CASL interests– Advancing the state of the art, analytical benchmarks

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APS Overview• Overview

– Owner/Operator of Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Largest Single Site Power Producer in US since 1992

– Performs in-house core designs, reload designs and non-LOCA accident analyses– No fuel failures since U2C14, March 2008 (mfg. defect); U1 failure 2005 (GTRF);

U3 failure 2004 (GTRF)• CASL Interests

– Advancing state of knowledge– Improving production codes &

eventual licensure• Nuclear Plants

– PVNGS 1, 2 & 3, 1986, 1986, 1988 – Combustion Engineering System 80– Current RTP 3990 MWth per Unit– Units 1, 2 & 3 are licensed to operate through 2045, 2046 & 2047

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Duke Energy• Overview

– Among Largest US Electric Utilities– 11 Nuclear Units in Carolinas – Self-performs non-LOCA Safety Analyses

• CASL interests– Challenge Problems– Advancing state of knowledge– Improving production codes

• Nuclear Plants– Oconee 3x 2568 MWth PWR - Babcock & Wilcox– Brunswick 2x 2923 MWth BWR - GE Mark I Containment– Catawba 2x 3411/3469 MWth PWR - Westinghouse 4-loop, Ice Condenser Containment– McGuire 2x 3469 MWth PWR - Westinghouse 4-loop, Ice Condenser Containment– Harris 1x 2948 MWth PWR - Westinghouse 3-loop– Robinson 1x 2339 MWth PWR - Westinghouse 3-loop

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• Overview– Approximately 32,700 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation's cleanest, lowest-cost

power generation fleets.– Constellation provides energy products and services to approximately 2 million residential, public sector

and business customers.– Exelon’s six utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers in Delaware,

the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries.

• CASL interests– University of Illinois/CASL to evaluate the impact of load follow on PCI using BISON– University of Tennessee to model Braidwood Unit 2 Cycle 13 PCI Fuel Failure– TMI Distinctive Crud Pattern (DCP) Benchmark

• Nuclear Plants– 23 Units (8 PWRs, 15 BWRs) at 14 sites

• Braidwood, Byron, Clinton, Dresden, FitzPatrick, LaSalle, Quad Cities, Limerick, Oyster Creek, Peach Bottom, TMI, Calvert Cliffs, Nine Mile Point, and Ginna

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EDF Key figures• French NPP fleet

• 58 operating reactors, from 900 MW to 1450 MW• 157 to 205 fuel assemblies per reactor• Fuel cycles - 12 or 18 months• Fuel assemblies renewal from 1/4th to 1/3rd

+ 14 AGR in the UK

• Some estimated costs*• One day of outage: ~1 M€• Total fuel cost: ~5 €/MWh• Major retrofit in France: ~50 b€

Including post-Fukushima program: ~10 b€

• A company strongly involved in numerical simulation for existing and future NPPs

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Fuel and SMR Vendors

http://www.bwxt.com/

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• AREVA Global– Refocusing on Core Nuclear Business, EDF Partnership– 14,000 Employees Worldwide– More Than 40 Sites in Key Regions Around the World

• AREVA in the United States– Fuel Manufacturing and Engineering Services for BWR and PWR

Reactors– Primary Locations, Charlotte, Lynchburg, and Richland– Nearly 5,000 Employees

• CASL interests– Advancing Analytical Capabilities– Improving Computation Capabilities– Challenge Problems and Results– Enhancing Usability

AREVA NP OverviewFUEL Key figures

• > 40 years of experience in PWR and BWR• > 224,000 assemblies delivered worldwide• 109 of the 289 light water reactors (excluding

VVER) in operation worldwide use AREVA NP technology fuels

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BWXT Overview

Key Operations• Lynchburg, VA• Barberton, OH• Euclid, OH• Mt. Vernon, IN• Erwin, TN• Cambridge, Ontario

Joint Ventures• West Valley, NY• Niskayuna, NY• Dravosburg, PA• Piketon, OH• Lexington, KY• Paducah, KY• Idaho Falls, ID

• Carlsbad, NM• Los Alamos, NM• Las Vegas, NV• Livermore, CA• Aiken, SC• Hancock County, MS• New Orleans, LA

Key Offices• Lynchburg, VA• Charlotte, NC• Oak Ridge, TN• Chattanooga, TN• Aiken, SC• Washington, DC• Cambridge, Ontario

BWXT Operations BWXT Key Offices Joint Ventures

BWXT operates six major manufacturing facilities

~5,400 employees worldwide, ~4,000 with U.S. federal security clearances

Skill sets include scientists, engineers, machinists, technicians and administrators

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licenses for our nuclear fuel facilities in Lynchburg, VA and Erwin, TN

Nuclear plant development projects iPWRs, advanced reactors Accident tolerant fuels

CASL Interests Tool for Evaluation Model V&V Mission for CAER-IST as a NSUF Challenge Problems

Company Overview Locations

BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) is a leading supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government; provides technical, management and site services to support governments in the operation of complex facilities and environmental remediation activities; and supplies precision manufactured components and services for the commercial nuclear power industry.

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Wilmington, NCUSA

• Nuclear Power Plants: ABWR, ESBWR and PRISM

• Nuclear Services• Advanced Programs …

Recycling

• Nuclear Fuel Fabrication ….BWR and CANDU

• CANDU Services• Fuel Engineering and Support

Services

Peterborough, ONCanada

Wilmington, NC Yokosuka, Japan

• Uranium Enrichment … Third Generation Technology

Wilmington, NCUSA

Tokyo, Japan

GE Hitachi nuclear alliance and businesses

TM16 NuScale Nonproprietary

Copyright 2015 by NuScale Power, LLCT

NuScale Overview

Test & Engineering Facilities

NuScale Control Room Simulator

NuScale Engineering Offices Corvallis

More than 600 people currently working with NuScale (300 direct employees).

Completed DCA on 12/31/16; docketed by NRC on 3/12/17.

Total cumulative investment by end of 2016 was ~$500M

NuScale has teamed with AREVA, ARES, Ultra, Rock Creek, and Enercon

Expect to add manufacturing partner in 2017. First COLA to be submitted in 2018 by UAMPS We are in full swing (finally) with CASL test stand:

Evaluate CRUD impacts on core performance

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Westinghouse Overview• Overview

– Westinghouse provides fuel, services,technology, plant design, and equipmentfor the commercial nuclear electric powerindustry.

– Westinghouse is proud to be a CASL Founding Partner

• Focus Items– Evaluation of CASL challenge problems for CRUD, DNB, PCI, LOCA, RIA, GTRF– Provide Data for validation– Support to VERA code and models– Reactor Application of VERA Tools– BISON Test Stand for ATF– VERA Training in Westinghouse– Evaluate Test Results from New Fretting Wear Tester– ATF Challenge Problem

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Engineering Design, Service Providers, R&D

Naval Nuclear Laboratory Interest• Benchmark NNL Advanced Simulation Methods

– Common PWR Benchmark with other leaders in advanced simulation (e.g., Multiphysics) field

• Test stand offers unique ability to assess different coupling approaches & performance with in-house tools

• Accuracy & efficiency (speed, memory)

• Feasibility to leverage DOE/CASL product– Save development & maintenance cost (for DOE)

• Leverage open source products• Reduced effort to leverage HPC architecture advances• Collaboration potential (i.e., UQ, mesh translation, user groups)

– Maintain consistency w/commercial nuclear where makes sense• Leverage economy of scale (software & knowledge) & lessons learned• Reduce effort for Regulatory review process

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ENERCON Services, Inc.

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• Overview– Founded in 1983, Employee Owned,

Based in Kennesaw GA– 31 Office Locations, > 1,200 Employees– > 1,000 Employees supporting commercial nuclear power– ENERCON supports greater than 80% of nuclear power plants in US through preferred

type contracts (85 Units GSA of which 71 are EOC)• CASL Interests

– Reactor physics and fuel performance benchmarking– Accident analysis and fuel damage assessment – Accident tolerant fuels

• Notable Projects– Assisted NuScale in their DCA and Associated Topical Reports on Accident Source Terms

and Nuclear Analysis Methods as well as provided engineering support– Assisting Emirate Nuclear Energy Corp (ENEC) is Licensing and Safety Analysis for the

four APR-1400 Barakah Plants in the UAE

21© 2017 Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. All rights reserved.

Electric Power Research Institute – Nuclear Sector EPRI is a Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization – Nuclear ~$190M/year; > 42% non-US funding

– Founded by and for the electricity industry in 1972 – Independent, nonprofit center for public interest energy and environmental research

Key contributions as a CASL Founding Partner– Falcon v1.2 source code, object code, and V&V documentation– FALCON MOD01 V31 Source code– BOA v3.0 source code, object code, and documentation– VERA Test Stand for PCI analysis– Crud Source Term methodologies (in progress)

Key pending requests– NESTOR data for MAMBA V&V– Crud - Fuel Deposit Sourcebook – Falcon v1.3.1 and V&V documentation– BOA v3.1– WALT loop CILC testing data– NSRR RIA testing data access

Challenge Problem interests– CIPS / CILC – BOA / MAMBA comparisons– PCI – load follow and high-burnup smaller-MPS w/ hydride redistribution– RIA – BWR PCMI limits: effects of pulse width, temperature, 300 ppm H; partial power analyses– LOCA – fuel fragmentation limiting burnup extensions– DNB – transient rod failure threshold margin; CHF water blades with FAD– ATF – speed up R&D (reducing irradiation testing iterations)

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• Overview• Global company providing power/propulsion solutions across aerospace, marine, energy and defense

sectors• Submarine business operating since late 1950s – design, manufacture, supply and through-life support

of nuclear propulsion plants for the UK fleet• Civil Nuclear business formally initiated in 2008 (working across the whole lifecycle from new design to

life extension and decommissioning) – particularly strong in Controls and Instrumentation and in-service inspection services.

• Most mature reactor analysis capability currently resides in Submarines

• CASL Interests• Particularly development of the VERA suite (coupled code analysis framework) and advanced in-vessel

CFD assessments• Improved validation data to support future regulatory approval

• Possible Applications• Potential future application of CASL tools and methods in our Civil Nuclear business (SMRs or

conventional plants)• Lessons learned from CASL that could be applied to development of our own in-house methods in

Submarines (aimed at reduction of non-recurring expenditure)

See more at: http://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/nuclear.aspx

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• Provider of specialized technical training instructors and expert consultants.

• Solutions reduce costs, enhance employee and plant performance, reduce risk, and improve technical engineering and design.

• We have a track record of 40+ years serving a global, blue chip client base.

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