2024 is an exciting year for new nuclear with the first Construction Permit Applications being submitted to the NRC for commercial non-light-water reactors that following the Licensing Modernization Process (LMP). NEI is hosting a LMP Construction Workshop to celebrate milestones and align on whether any gaps exist that need to be addressed to ensure a smooth next stage of deploying these designs using LMP. The goal of the meeting is to bring together advanced reactor (AR) stakeholders to achieve:
- Alignment across organizations on challenges and successes of LMP guidance related to constructing new nuclear plants
- Identification of common challenges which may provide input to future regulatory modernization efforts
- Discuss industry’s previous experiences licensing during construction, and how those can be applied to projects that will use LMP
- Changes to the licensing basis during construction
- The NRC AR Construction Oversight Process (ARCOP)
- Risk Informed (RI) QA during construction
- LMP implications for design and construction Codes and Standards (C&S)
- Any other topics related to construction brought up to address on an industry-wide basis
Who Should Attend?
- AR Vendors
- Constructors
- Utilities and other End Users
- EPC and contractor support
Schedule
Day 1: Industry Only
- LMP development update
- Presentation Licensing for Part 50 Construction
- Industry presentations
- Discussion of gaps and development of strategy
- Happy Hour following Day 1 activities
Day 2: Industry and NRC
- Morning – Continuation of Workshop
- Industry Presentation
- NRC Presentation
- Discussion between NRC and industry on change management during construction
- Afternoon – Technology Inclusive Management of the Safety Case (TIMaSC) Kickoff
- Overview and discussion of TIMaSC project
- TIMaSC Network Diagram Discussion
