Low Cost Nuclear Phase 1

该项目的目标是研究和开发核电站设计的创新方法，使新型核电站的发展能够以与其他技术（如可再生能源和具有碳捕获和储存（CCS）的天然气）竞争的价格提供电力。该项目专注于将最新的数字技术、工厂生产流程和废物减少系统整合到一个综合设计开发计划中。该项目将作为概念证明，由此产生的电站设计将满足社会、环境、技术和商业要求。交付该项目的10个组织组成的财团的目标是在16个月内成功交付初始阶段的工作。在该项目成功完成后，财团打算继续开发新型小型模块化核电站设计；其明确的目标是在本世纪30年代和40年代在英国和世界各地部署一批具有成本效益的低碳发电站。最终，这将使英国能够实现其碳减排目标，应对全球气候变化挑战，并在本世纪30年代进入价值超过2000亿英镑的出口市场。该项目的成功交付将产生同样适用于其他新型电站设计的技术、工艺和工具，如先进模块化反应堆（AMR）、未来的核聚变项目和其他主要基础设施项目。

The project’s goal is to investigate and develop innovative approaches to nuclear power stationdesign that will enable the development of a new type of nuclear power station that can provideelectricity at rates competitive with other technologies such as renewables and Gas withcarbon capture and storage (CCS). The project focusses on incorporating the latest digitaltechnologies, factory production processes and waste reduction systems into an integrateddesign development programme. This project will act as proof of concept that the resultingpower station design would meet societal, environmental, technical and commercialrequirements.The consortium of 10 organisations delivering the project are targeting successful delivery ofthis initial phase of work within 16 months. Upon successful completion of this project, theconsortium intends to continue development of the novel small modular nuclear power stationdesign; with the expressed goal of deploying a fleet of these cost effective, low-carbon powerstations through the 2030s and 2040s both in the UK and around the world. Ultimately, this willenable the UK to meet its carbon reduction goals, address the global climate change challengeand access an export market worth in excess of £200Bn by the 2030s.Successful delivery of this project will yield technologies, processes and tools that are alsoapplicable to other novel power station designs, such as advanced modular reactors (AMR),future fusion programmes and other major infrastructure programmes.