NEUP CINR-22-27048: ATF Solutions to Light Water-Cooled SMRs

(1) Investigate near term opportunities of accident tolerant fuels for light water cooled small modular reactors (LWR-SMR) design spaces with Holtec’s SMR-160 as the reference plant for the US university partners and Rolls-Royce’s UK-SMR as the reference plant for UK university partners (2) Simulate the fuel and safety performance of Lightbridge concept for the NuScale SMR (3) Provide scoping analysis of promising longer term advanced fuel forms to improve the safety and economics of LWR-SMRs.

Additional Info

Field	Value
Awarded Institution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PI	Koroush Shirvan