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Office of Nuclear Energy Update

Dr. Peter LyonsAssistant Secretary for Nuclear Energyy gy

U.S. Department of Energy

Nuclear Energy Advisory CommitteeNuclear Energy Advisory CommitteeWashington, DCJune 12, 2012

President Obama’s Nuclear Energy GoalsNuclear Energy Goals

“We can build the next generationWe can build the next‐generation nuclear reactors that are smaller and

safer and cleaner and cheaper.”

The Ohio State University‐March 22, 2012

“With rising oil prices and a warmingWith rising oil prices and a warming climate, nuclear energy will only become more important. That’s why, in the United

States we’ve restarted our nuclearStates, we ve restarted our nuclear industry as part of a comprehensive

strategy to develop every energy source.”

Nuclear Security Summit‐March 26, 2012

Secretary Chu Visits Vogtle

“The resurgence of nuclearThe resurgence of nuclear energy starts here in Georgia.”

“Nuclear energy is a critical part of President Obama's all‐of‐the‐above energy strategy.”

Secretary Steven ChuFebruary 15, 2012

Recent Key Events

NE Reorganization

NEAC MembershipNEAC Membership

Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Final Report Issued January 26 2012Future‐ Final Report Issued January 26, 2012

Small Modular Reactor Program Approved

Fuels with Enhanced Accident Tolerance

NEUP Awards

FY 13 Budget

Proposed Organizational RealignmentOrganizational Realignment

The roles and responsibilities of the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretaryd h hi f i ffi ill b lid d i i l i iand the Chief Operating Officer will be consolidated into a single position, NE‐2.

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear EnergyNE‐1/2

Chief Operating

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear EnergyNE‐1/2NE‐2

Current Proposed

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Facility

Operations/Chief Operating

NE‐3

Office of Human Capital & Business Services

NE‐21

Chief Operating Officer


NE‐3

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary/Chief Operating Officer

Operations/Chief Operating Officer

ADAS Deputy COO

Office of Budget & Planning

NE‐22

for Nuclear Facility Operations

Idaho Operations Office


Office of Integrated Safety & Program Assurance

NE‐31

Office of Human Capital & Business Services

NE‐33

Office of Budget &NE‐34

Office of Facilities Management

NE‐31

Program Assurance


NE‐32


Proposed Organizational RealignmentProposed Organizational Realignment

A new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Innovative Science and Technology, NE‐4, will be established the Office of Advanced Modeling and Simulation will be transferred (from NE‐7) the Office of Advanced Modeling and Simulation will be transferred (from NE 7) a new Office of Innovative Nuclear Research will be established and will report to the new DAS

Current Proposed

Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Science and Technology

Innovation

NE‐4

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactor

Technologies

NE‐7


Operations/Chief Operating Officer

NE‐3

Office of Advanced Modeling & Simulation

NE‐41Office of Advanced Modeling &

Simulation

NE‐71

Office of Light Water Reactor Technologies

NE‐72


NE‐31 NEET, NSUF

Office of Innovative Nuclear Research

NE‐42Technologies



NE‐32

NEUP, SBIR

RFM RRIRFM‐RRI

Proposed Organizational RealignmentProposed Organizational Realignment

Current Proposed


Technologies

NE‐7Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Nuclear Reactor Technologies

NE‐7


NE‐71Office of Light Water Reactor

Technologies

NE‐72


NE‐72

Office of Gas Cooled Reactor Technologies

NE‐73

Office of Advanced Reactor Technologies

NE‐74

Office of Space & Defense Power Systems

NE‐75

Office of Advanced Reactor Concepts

NE‐74

Office of Space & NE‐75

Defense Power Systems

Current OrganizationAssistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

Dr. Peter B. Lyons, Assistant SecretaryShane Johnson, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee

NE‐1/2

Office of Policy, Integration & Communication

John Gross

Program Integration Council

NE Senior Managers

NE‐2.1

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fuel Cycle Technologies

Monica Regalbuto

NE‐5

Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Nuclear Energy

Policy and Cooperation Ed McGinnis

NE‐6Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Nuclear Facility Operations/Chief Operating

OfficerDennis Miotla

NE‐3


TechnologiesJohn Kelly

NE‐7

Office of Systems Engineering & Integration

Robert Price

Office of Fuel Cycle Research & Development

NE‐51

NE‐52

Office of International Nuclear Energy Policy

Michelle Scott, Acting

Office of International Nuclear F l M t

NE‐61

NE‐62Idaho Operations Office

Richard Provencher, Manager Office of Human Capital & Business Services

NE‐33


Trevor Cook, Acting

NE‐71


NE‐72

ADASRichard Stark

Deputy COOSusan Johnson, Acting

NE 54

Research & DevelopmentAndy Griffith

Office of Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition Research & Development

William Boyle

NE‐53

Fuel ManagementAlan Brownstein


Mike Worley

NE‐31

Offi f F iliti M t

NE‐32

Deborah Sharpe


Patrick Edgerton, Acting

NE‐34

Rebecca Smith‐Kevern

Office of Gas Cooled Reactor TechnologiesTom O’Connor

NE‐73

Office of Advanced ReactorNE‐74

Office of Uranium Management and Policy

William Szymanski

NE‐54Office of Facilities ManagementTracey Bishop

Office of Space & Defense Power Systems

Owen Lowe

NE‐75

Office of Advanced Reactor Concepts

Tom O’Connor, Acting

Proposed Organization

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear EnergyDr Peter B Lyons Assistant Secretary

Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee

NE‐1/2Chief Operating Officer

Proposed Organization

Dr. Peter B. Lyons, Assistant SecretaryDennis Miotla, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

Advisory Committee

Senior Advisors

Office of Human Capital & Business ServicesDeborah Sharpe

NE‐21Office of Budget &

PlanningPatrick Edgerton

NE‐22

p gDennis Miotla

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fuel Cycle Technologies

NE‐5

Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Nuclear Energy

P li d C ti

NE‐6


O ti

NE‐3

p


Technologies

NE‐7

Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Science and Technology

I ti

NE‐4

TechnologiesMonica Regalbuto

Office of Systems Engineering & Integration

Robert Price

NE‐51

Policy and Cooperation Ed McGinnis

Office of International Nuclear Energy Policy

Michelle Scott Acting

NE‐61

OperationsTracey Bishop, Acting

Idaho Operations OfficeRichard Provencher, Manager

TechnologiesJohn Kelly


Trevor Cook Acting

NE‐41Office of Light Water Reactor

TechnologiesRebecca Smith‐Kevern

NE‐72

InnovationShane Johnson, Acting

Robert Price

Office of Fuel Cycle Research & Development

Andy Griffith

NE‐52

Office of Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition

NE‐53

Michelle Scott, Acting

Office of International Nuclear Fuel ManagementAlan Brownstein

NE‐62Office of Innovative Nuclear

ResearchMike Worley, Acting

NE‐42Office of Facilities Management

Tracey Bishop

NE‐31

Office of Space & NE‐75

Trevor Cook, Acting Rebecca Smith‐Kevern

Office of Advanced Reactor Technologies

Tom O’Connor, Acting

NE‐74

Office of Uranium Management and Policy

William Szymanski

NE‐54

Nuclear Fuel Disposition Research & Development

William Boyle

Defense Power SystemsOwen Lowe

NEAC Membership List Going ForwardGoing Forward

Outgoing NEAC Members Outgoing Chair and Vice ChairOutgoing NEAC Members

1. John Ahearne

2. Allen Sessoms

3. Marvin Fertel

Outgoing Chair and Vice Chair

– William Martin

– John Ahearne

4. Thomas Cochran

5. Neil Todreas

N M b

New Chair and Co‐Chair

– Richard Meserve

– Susan Eisenhower New Members

1. Richard Meserve

2. Susan Eisenhower

3. Matthew Bunn

Notes:

Outgoing members officially rotate out of NEACon September 30, 20123. Matthew Bunn

4. Regis Matzie

5. Margaret Chu

6. Alfred Sattelberger

on September 30, 2012

Total number of NEAC members is 23 and it will decline to 18 on October 1, 2012

7. Mujid Kazimi

Blue Ribbon CommissionRecommendationsRecommendations

1. A new, consent‐based approach to siting future nuclear waste management facilities.

2. A new organization dedicated solely to implementing the waste management program and empowered with the authority and resources to succeed.p g p y

3. Access to the funds nuclear utility ratepayers are providing for the purpose of nuclear waste management.

4. Prompt efforts to develop one or more geologic disposal facilities.

5. Prompt efforts to develop one or more consolidated storage facilities.

6. Prompt efforts to prepare for the eventual large‐scale transport of spent nuclear fuel and high‐level waste to consolidated storage and disposal facilities when such facilities become availablefacilities become available.

7. Support for continued U.S. innovation in nuclear energy technology and for workforce development.

8. Active U.S. leadership in international efforts to address safety, waste management, p y gnon‐proliferation, and security concerns.

Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven ChuStatement on the BRC Recommendations

Th D t t i th t th BRC R tThe Department recognizes that the BRC Report represents “a critical step toward finding a sustainable approach to disposing used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste ”fuel and nuclear waste.

The Department acknowledges that “the specifics of a new strategy for managing our nation’s used n clear f el ill need to be addressed innuclear fuel will need to be addressed in partnership with Congress.”

The Department “will work in parallel to begin i l i h ” b kiimplementing the new strategy” by taking sensible steps toward the implementation of near‐term recommendations.

Small Modular Reactors

Many potential benefits from SMRs:Many potential benefits from SMRs:– Enhanced safety from integral design– Significant job creation opportunitiesg j pp– Shorter construction time – less financial risk – Lower capital cost – less financing required– Could be air‐cooled– Security advantages from underground sitingCould replace aging fossil plants provide– Could replace aging fossil plants – provide low‐carbon energy to address GHG goals

Advanced LWR Fuels with Enhanced Accident ToleranceAccident Tolerance

Vision:Vision:

Mission:Mission:

LWR fleet with enhanced accident tolerance providing a substantial fraction of the national clean energy needs

LWR fleet with enhanced accident tolerance providing a substantial fraction of the national clean energy needs

Develop advanced fuels and non‐intrusive reactor system components (e.g. instruments, auxiliary power sources) with improved performance, reliability and safety characteristics during normal operations and accident conditions

Develop advanced fuels and non‐intrusive reactor system components (e.g. instruments, auxiliary power sources) with improved performance, reliability and safety characteristics during normal operations and accident conditions

10‐year Goals• Insert a LTA into a operatingcommercial reactor

10‐year Goals• Insert a LTA into a operatingcommercial reactor

Must be acceptable to vendors/utilities• Better safety performance (e.g. during normal,design basis accidents and beyond design b d )

Must be acceptable to vendors/utilities• Better safety performance (e.g. during normal,design basis accidents and beyond design b d )• Demonstrate non‐intrusive

components that enhancesafety (e.g. instrumentation with enhanced accident

• Demonstrate non‐intrusivecomponents that enhancesafety (e.g. instrumentation with enhanced accident

basis accidents)• Reliability and fuel configurations similar to current fleet

• Acceptable economicsbl i d li i

basis accidents)• Reliability and fuel configurations similar to current fleet

• Acceptable economicsbl i d li itolerance)tolerance) • Favorable neutronics and licensing

characteristics• Favorable neutronics and licensingcharacteristics

NEUP Award Recipients FY 2009 FY 2012

UW

WSU

FY 2009 – FY 2012

ISUBSU

U of I

BU

UMLUMN

RPI

SU MIT

OSU

CBC

LTCSDSU

10

UC, Berkeley

UC, Davis

CU

CSM

CSU MC

U f I

IIT

NU

Purdue

ND

UMD

JHU

U‐M

MU

UNR

AU

CCNYHunter College

SU

SUNY, Stony Brook

MIT

CSU CWRU

OSU

WUUC

PSU

Pitt Drexel

URI

USU

UU

C

LTC

UW‐Madison

ASU

UC, IrvineCSULBUCLA

UCSB

CSMGW

GIT

U of IKSU

UK

MST

MU

MSU

NCSU

UNC‐CHUNM

UNLV

CUFMU

UTK

VTVCU

UA

U of A

UFL

GITMSU

ASU

SCSU MTCUSC

UT, Austin Texas A&M

UH

UT, Dallas

UT, Arlington

NEUP has awarded $218 1 M UFLNEUP has awarded $218.1 Mto 79 schools in 33 States andthe District of Columbia

FY 2012-2013 Budget Summaryg y

FY 2012 Adjusted

FY 2013 Request

FY 2013 House Appropriations

FY 2013 Senate Appropriations

Program Committee Committee

Integrated University Program 5,000 0 5,000 0SMR Licensing Technical Support 67,000 65,000 114,000 65,000Reactor Concepts RD&D 114,871 73,674 126,660 73,674Fuel Cycle R&D 186 260 175 438 138 716 193 138Fuel Cycle R&D 186,260 175,438 138,716 193,138Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies 74,670 65,318 75,000 65,318Radiological Facilities Management 69,510 51,000 51,000 66,000Idaho Facilities Management O&M 154,097 144,220 154,220 144,220 13‐D‐905, RHLLW 6,280 6,280 6,280 13‐E‐200, APIE 1,500 1,500 1,500Idaho Facilities Management 154,097 152,000 162,000 152,000Idaho Sitewide Safeguards and Security 93,350 95,000 93,350 93,000International Nuclear Energy Cooperation 2,983 3,000 3,000 3,000Program Direction 91,000 90,015 90,015 92,015Nuclear Waste Disposal 25 000Nuclear Waste Disposal 25,000

Use of Prior Year Balances/Reprogramming (17,700)Total, Office of Nuclear Energy 858,741 770,445 883,741 785,445

Other Defense Activities

Prior Year Nuclear Waste Fund

15

Prior Year Nuclear Waste Fund

Nuclear Waste Disposal (New)

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