According to the letter, dated 28 January, the Cola will be for a six-module plant that can generate 77-MW per module.
The public power consortium Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, or Uamps, launched the Carbon Free Power Project in 2015 to develop, own, and operate the nation’s first SMR plant, to be built at Idaho National Laboratory with reactor technology supplied by NuScale.
NuScale’s SMR design features fully factory-fabricated that use a smaller version of larger, pressurised water reactor technology. The scalable design – power plants can house up to 12 individual modules – offers the benefits of carbon-free energy and reduces the financial commitments associated with gigawatt-sized nuclear facilities, NuScale said.
According to NuScale, approximately 50 procurement packages for the project have been identified, including fuel fabrication, power module fabrication, safety instrumentation and controls, and mechanical handling equipment (equipment used to handle, move, inspect, and disassemble/assemble the power modules).
“Although supply agreements have not been finalised in most cases, suppliers have been identified for more than half of the procurement packages,” NuScale said, adding that the remaining procurement activities will be handled by Fluor – NuScale’s majority investor and engineering, procurement, and construction partner in the US – and are primarily civil/structural items and balance-of-plant equipment.
