Backfit, safety issues raised on proposed NuScale SMR rule

摘要

Issues related to the safety of NuScale Power’s small modular reactor,and to the relevance of NRC’s backfit rule to SMR and other advancedreactor reviews, were raised in comments on NRC’s proposed rule tocertify NuScale’s design.NuScale became in December 2016 the first company to submit anSMR design for NRC certification. NRC accepted the application for afull technical review in March 2017 and issued a standard designapproval Sept. 11.