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The United States nuclear industry is moving forward with advanced reactor designs to provide safer, more efficient electricity to replace non-nuclear generation technologies that produce greenhouse gases. However, the technology for advanced reactors must still undergo rigorous safety review.
The Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) Program was launched in response to requests from U.S. companies that require different testing facilities than the commercial nuclear power technology in use today. The VTR is a critical element for the advancement of nuclear technologies domestically and internationally and for re-establishing U.S. leadership in nuclear energy.
Since 2018, AYZA PROJECT LLC, in collaboration with nuclear industry leader GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), has supported the research and development phase of the U.S. Department of Energy’s VTR program.
Gen IV advanced reactors are cooled by substances other than water, such as liquid sodium, lead, gas, or molten salts. These advanced reactors produce no greenhouse gases during operation, like the existing fleet of water-cooled reactors.
However, they offer additional benefits such as:
AYZA PROJECT LLC’s R&D phase support is being performed under contract with GEH; GEH is under contract with Battelle Energy Alliance, the management and operating contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory.
The VTR development efforts are using the best available resources from the DOE laboratories, industry, and universities to expedite the reactor design and construction, and to develop the scientific infrastructure for a powerful testing capability sustained over many decades.
Instead of producing electricity, the VTR will be used to conduct accelerated irradiation testing and qualification of the fuels, materials, instrumentation, and sensors to be used in the rapidly evolving advanced reactor (Gen IV) designs brought forward by U.S. companies, public and private research institutions, and international collaborations with allied nations. When complete, the VTR will have the ability to simultaneously conduct multiple experiments for advanced reactor technologies.
The GEH-AYZA PROJECT LLC team is performing the conceptual design of structures, systems, and components of the VTR – a sodium- cooled fast neutron reactor based on GEH’s Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM) design.
AYZA PROJECT LLC’s R&D phase support is being performed under contract with GEH; GEH is under contract with Battelle Energy Alliance, the management and operating contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory.
The VTR development efforts are using the best available resources from the DOE laboratories, industry, and universities to expedite the reactor design and construction, and to develop the scientific infrastructure for a powerful testing capability sustained over many decades.
