Westinghouse Electric Company announced today they will collaboratively team with Burns & McDonnell and General Dynamics Electric Boat to support the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR) application for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Modular Reactor Funding Opportunity.
"We are very pleased to welcome Burns & McDonnell and Electric Boat as members of our vendor team to support the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor design effort, and the ultimate deployment of a Westinghouse SMR at Ameren Missouri's Callaway Energy Center," Michael Anness, SMR product manager at Westinghouse Electric Company, said. "We feel that this collaboration is an excellent fit for the team and will tremendously enhance our capabilities to provide licensing, construction and operational certainty that no other U.S. SMR supplier applying for DOE investment funds can match."
Department of Energy (DOE) SMR investment funds will be awarded to SMR projects that have the most potential and promise to be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and achieve commercial operation by 2022. Earlier this week, Westinghouse and the Missouri Electric Alliance led by Ameren Missouri announced the formation of a utility participation group called the NexStart SMR Alliance in order to rapidly license and deploy Westinghouse SMR technolgoy. The alliance officially submitted its application on May 18th.
Burns & McDonnell, Missouri's oldest and largest engineering firm, will provide architectural and engineering support to design the power systems of the 225 MWe Westinghouse SMR. Electric Boat has joined the Westinghouse-led team to provide modular design support, leveraging the expertise attained over more than 60 years of nuclear-powered submarine design and manufacturing to the benefit of commercial nuclear programs.