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Response to the U.S. DOE’s notice of request for expressions of interest (EOI) in a design of a nuclear fuel facility and a sodium cooled fast reactor.Sep. 8, 2006Accompanying with the related Japanese domestic companies, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA, President Yuichi Tonozuka) has made responses to the notice of request for expressions of interest (EOI) on September 8th, with their technical proposals. The EOI in a design of a nuclear fuel facility including LWR fuel reprocessing and fast reactor fuel fabrication and in a design of a sodium cooled fast reactor, was requested by U.S. DOE to the U.S. domestic and foreign industries. The purpose of this request for EOI in a technical proposal issued by the U.S. DOE is to obtain various technical inputs from U.S. and international nuclear industry and facilitate to create Requests for Proposals (RFP) for real design activities. The DOE will make requirements on each facility design referring the information gained from this EOI and after that they will ask for a design plan as a next step. Both of these targeted facilities are supposed to be in construction around 2010 and in online about 2020 at the earliest. If the technical proposal from Japan at this time will be reflected in the contents of the RFP to be planned, and if they will win in the RFP, the technology or design developed in Japan will be realized in the nuclear facilities in the U.S. at an early date and this might really contribute to the establishment of global standard that we are now seeking for in the field of fast reactor nuclear cycle technology. Attachment 1.Release a Statement of Expressions of Interest to Technological Proposals on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) 2.List of proposers |
