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Shifting the paradigm of supply chain
Chad Wolf
When I began my nuclear career, I was coached up in the nuclear energy culture of the day to “run silent, run deep,” a mindset rooted in the U.S. Navy’s submarine philosophy. That was the norm—until Fukushima.
The nuclear renaissance that many had envisioned hit a wall. The focus shifted from expansion to survival. Many utility communications efforts pivoted from silence to broadcast, showcasing nuclear energy’s elegance and reliability. Nevertheless, despite being clean baseload 24/7 power that delivered a 90 percent capacity factor or higher, nuclear energy was painted as risky and expensive (alongside energy policies and incentives that favored renewables).
Economics became a driving force threatening to shutter nuclear power. The Delivering the Nuclear Promise initiative launched in 2015 challenged the industry to sustain high performance yet cut costs by up to 30 percent.
Michael P. Short (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Miaomiao Jin (Idaho National Laboratory), Ittinop Dumnernchanvanit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Max Carlson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sean Robertson (Transatomic Power Corporation), Gilberto Mota (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alexandra R. Delmore (University of Wisconsin Madison), Akshay Dave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Bren A. Philips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew T. Nelson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dennis F. Hussey (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)), Daniel M. Wells (Electric Power Research Institute), Jeff Deshon (Electric Power Research Institute), Naiqiang Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Brian Kendrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Chris Stanek (Los Alamos National Laboratory), David Andersson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kenneth J. McClellan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Derek R. Gaston (Idaho National Laboratory), Cody J. Permann (Idaho National Laboratory), Richard C. Martineau (Idaho National Laboratory)
Proceedings | The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting | November 16-19, 2020 | Pages 461-466
