Title:

NuScale Power: Thinking Small in a Big Way

Speaker:

Dr. Daniel T. Ingersoll

Affiliation:

NuScale Power, LLC

When:

Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

Boggs Building, Room 3-47

Host:

Dr. Anna Erickson
anna.erickson@me.gatech.edu
404-385-0419

Abstract

Interest in smaller sized nuclear power plants has been growing steadily world-wide and is now emerging rapidly in the United States. NuScale Power is developing a small modular reactor design that will offer a more affordable and more flexible approach to expanding the use of nuclear energy for a broader range of energy customers. Based on a standardized and highly robust 50 MWe nuclear module, a NuScale plant will be scalable up to 12 modules, each of which are factory fabricated and can be installed in an incremental fashion to maximize affordability and owner flexibility. A brief overview of the NuScale module and plant design will be presented with emphasis on the high level of safety, affordability and flexibility achieved by the modular design.

Biography

Dr. Daniel Ingersoll is Director of the Office of Research Collaborations for NuScale Power where he coordinates and develops R&D partnerships between NuScale and external research organizations. Prior to joining NuScale, he was Senior Program Manager for the Small Modular Reactors R&D Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received a BS degree in Physics from Miami University and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois.