文部科学省大学間連携共同教育推進事業「未来像を自ら描く電気エネルギー分野における実践的人材の育成」
The Advanced SMRs (aSMR) Conceptual Design and Research Challenges －A Solution for Future Nuclear Power－ （2017/２/23 福岡工業大学）
2017/03/06
【科目種別】電気エネルギー講座Ⅱ（英語科目）
■講 師： Prof. Dr. Thuy T. Le
■ご所属： San Jose State University
■演 題： The Advanced SMRs (aSMR) Conceptual Design and Research Challenges
－A Solution for Future Nuclear Power－
■日 時： 平成 29年 2月 23日（木）13:00～14:30
■場 所： 福岡工業大学 E棟3階 Cultivation Site R2教室
■主 催： 福岡工業大学 大学院工学研究科
■概要
The Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are nuclear power reactors that have power level of 300 MWe or less and are designed in form of modular units. The Advanced SMRs (aSMR) are SMR with generation 4 design objectives. These reactors can be manufactured at a factory and transported by truck or rail to a nuclear power site for onsite installation. SMRs theoretically offer major advantages over traditional large nuclear power reactors such as minimum on-site construction, lower initial capital investment, better power scalability and siting flexibility, higher containment efficiency, enhanced safety and nuclear materials security. Some industry observers believe that SMRs are one solution for the four major challenges in creating nuclear energy facilities, which are costs, safety, waste, and proliferation. Still some others believe that SMRs may not be able to solve problems confronting nuclear power. This presentation assesses the technical characteristics of current SMR designs, which are mostly based on traditional LWR technology. The presentation then analyses the technical objectives and conceptual designs of aSMR which require lots of study and research, for both supply side and demand side. In order for aSMRs to be able to solve current problems confronting nuclear power, aSMR designs must simultaneously resolve the four major challenges without trading off among them. The design should be based on regulatory requirements with realistic technology-specific based on acceptance criteria and outcomes. Based on newest accepted conceptual designs of aSMR, research direction and challenges for the design and development of aSMR in the next 15 years will be presented and discussed.
【学生の関わり様】
日本での研究開発が少ない小型モジュラー炉（SMR）の講演であり，原子力利用の最先端研究が基礎から講演され，大変興味深い内容であった。日本では，東日本大震災を起点として原子力利用において，多くの議論がなされているが，本講演の質疑応答でも原子力を取り巻く環境や世論，SMRなどの革新技術について，講師，教員，そして学生らにより活発な意見交換がなされた。
■講 師： Prof. Dr. Thuy T. Le
■ご所属： San Jose State University
■演 題： The Advanced SMRs (aSMR) Conceptual Design and Research Challenges
－A Solution for Future Nuclear Power－
■日 時： 平成 29年 2月 23日（木）13:00～14:30
■場 所： 福岡工業大学 E棟3階 Cultivation Site R2教室
■主 催： 福岡工業大学 大学院工学研究科
■概要
The Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are nuclear power reactors that have power level of 300 MWe or less and are designed in form of modular units. The Advanced SMRs (aSMR) are SMR with generation 4 design objectives. These reactors can be manufactured at a factory and transported by truck or rail to a nuclear power site for onsite installation. SMRs theoretically offer major advantages over traditional large nuclear power reactors such as minimum on-site construction, lower initial capital investment, better power scalability and siting flexibility, higher containment efficiency, enhanced safety and nuclear materials security. Some industry observers believe that SMRs are one solution for the four major challenges in creating nuclear energy facilities, which are costs, safety, waste, and proliferation. Still some others believe that SMRs may not be able to solve problems confronting nuclear power. This presentation assesses the technical characteristics of current SMR designs, which are mostly based on traditional LWR technology. The presentation then analyses the technical objectives and conceptual designs of aSMR which require lots of study and research, for both supply side and demand side. In order for aSMRs to be able to solve current problems confronting nuclear power, aSMR designs must simultaneously resolve the four major challenges without trading off among them. The design should be based on regulatory requirements with realistic technology-specific based on acceptance criteria and outcomes. Based on newest accepted conceptual designs of aSMR, research direction and challenges for the design and development of aSMR in the next 15 years will be presented and discussed.
【学生の関わり様】
日本での研究開発が少ない小型モジュラー炉（SMR）の講演であり，原子力利用の最先端研究が基礎から講演され，大変興味深い内容であった。日本では，東日本大震災を起点として原子力利用において，多くの議論がなされているが，本講演の質疑応答でも原子力を取り巻く環境や世論，SMRなどの革新技術について，講師，教員，そして学生らにより活発な意見交換がなされた。
