TVA Coal-Fired Plant Potential for Advanced Reactor Siting

Belles, Randy; Omitaomu, Olufemi A.; Worrall, Andrew

doi:10.2172/1826024

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“…2. Belles et al (2021) evaluate 13 CPP sites in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) service territory to determine the potential of these sites for SMR siting. The TVA CPP sites are a mix or existing and former sites and are evaluated using the OR-SAGE tool.…”

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Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants

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Jenson

Wrobel

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A coal-to-nuclear (C2N) transition means siting a nuclear reactor at the site of a recently retired coal power plant. Three overarching questions from the C2N transition guide this research: where in the United States are retired coal facilities located and what factors make a site feasible for transition; what factors of technology, cost, and project timeline drive investor economics over such a decision; and how will C2N impact local communities?The study team evaluated the siting characteristics of recently retired plants and those operating coal-fired power plant sites run by a utility or an independent power producer utilizing publicly available data to screen U.S. coal power plant sites to nuclear-feasible locations. After screening all retired coal sites to a set of 157 potential candidates and screening operating sites to a set of 237 candidates, the study team estimates that 80% of retired and operating coal power plant sites that were evaluated have the basic characteristics needed to be considered amenable to host an advanced nuclear reactor. For the recently retired plant sites evaluated, this represents a capacity potential of 64.8 GWe to be backfit at 125 sites. For the operating plant sites evaluated, this represents a capacity Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants iv September

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