Safety Systems Analysis and Licensing Strategies
Goal
Risk-informed safety systems analysis and licensing strategies under the Capacity Expansion Pathway enable higher (extended) power uprate levels.
Planned major accomplishments​
- Integrate safety systems analysis for uprated design conditions
- Develop computational tools to optimize plant uprates and cost benefits
- Provide early issue-resolution frameworks to streamline regulatory review
- Evaluate margin recovery using best-estimate plus uncertainty methods
UPRISE – (Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort) Alignment
- Streamline regulatory processes
- Promote risk-informed approaches
- Enable faster capacity expansion roll-out while maintaining safety