Letter of intent sets COLA submittal date for NuScale plant

February 8, 2022, 3:02PMANS Nuclear Cafe

Small modular reactor developer NuScale Power has informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission via letter that a combined license application (COLA) for the Carbon Free Power Project’s SMR plant is expected to be submitted to the agency in January 2024. The COLA will be for a six-unit 77-MWe plant.

The public power consortium Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems launched the Carbon Free Power Project in 2015 to develop, own, and operate the nation’s first SMR plant, to be located at Idaho National Laboratory, with reactor technology supplied by NuScale.

Scope of supply: According to NuScale, approximately 50 procurement packages for the project have been identified, including fuel fabrication, NuScale 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 finalized in most cases, suppliers have been identified for more than half of the procurement packages,” NuScale stated, adding that the remaining procurement activities will be handled by Fluor and are primarily civil/structural items and balance-of-plant equipment.


Related Articles

Will Palisades be the “comeback kid”?

Historic nuclear plant restart could happen in 2025.

April 11, 2025, 3:03PMNuclear News

Mike Mlynarek believes in this expression: “In the end it will be OK; and if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”As the site vice president at Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert...

NuScale E2 Center opens at RPI

March 26, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

The opening of an Energy Exploration (E2) Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., was announced by NuScale Power Corporation on March 24. The training center will provide...