Next Generation Nuclear Plant
A next generation nuclear plant (NGNP) is a generation IV very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR) that could be coupled to a neighboring hydrogen production facility. It could also produce electricity and supply process heat. Up to 30% of this heat could be used to produce hydrogen via high-temperature electrolysis significantly reducing the cost of the process.[1]
The United States Department of Energy issued in 2007 a "request for expressions of interest from prospective industry teams"[2] that want to provide design services for developing the NGNP.
With an earlier focus on South Africa's pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR), in 2012, the Idaho National Laboratory approved a design similar to Areva's SC-HTGR—formerly Antares—reactor as the chosen next-generation nuclear power plant VHTR to be deployed as a prototype by 2021. It was in competition with General Atomics' gas turbine modular helium reactor and Westinghouse' PBMR.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Badwal 2013, pp. 473–487.
- ^ "Next Generation Nuclear Plant revived". World Nuclear News. July 24, 2007. Archived from the original on August 6, 2007.
- ^ "INL approves Antares design".
Sources
- Badwal, S. P. S.; Giddey, S.; Munnings, C. (Sep 2013). "Hydrogen production via solid electrolytic routes". WIREs Energy Environ. 2 (5): 473–487. doi:10.1002/wene.50.
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