With 60 years of global nuclear project experience as a reactor Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has a full range of new nuclear plant services available and can tailor solutions to help customers like you overcome new plant challenges and experience better project development and execution. Photo courtesy of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

Wilmington, NC, USA – November 01, 2016

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Southern Nuclear have agreed to collaborate in studying the development and licensing of advanced reactors including GEH’s PRISM sodium-cooled fast reactor design.

Jay Wileman, president and CEO, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Photo courtesy of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

“Southern Nuclear’s operational experience, technical expertise and leadership in innovation are significant strengths that will benefit our work together to support the commercialization of advanced nuclear reactor technology,” said Jay Wileman, president and CEO, GEH.
“With a design that can extract energy from used nuclear fuel to generate electricity, our PRISM advanced reactor technology is a game-changer.”

PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost-effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s next evolution of sodium-cooled reactor technology is the PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular) reactor. PRISM is a reactor that uses liquid sodium as a coolant. This coolant allows the neutrons in the reactor to have a higher energy (sometimes called fast-reactors) that drive fission of the transuranics, converting them into short-lived "fission products." This reaction produces heat energy, which is converted into electricity in a conventional steam turbine. Photo courtesy of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

In a Memorandum of Understanding signed by GEH and Southern Nuclear Development, a subsidiary of Southern Nuclear Operating Company, the companies have also agreed to work together toward participating in future U.S. Department of Energy advanced reactor licensing projects.

Stephen Kuczynski, chairman, president and CEO, Southern Nuclear. Photo courtesy of Southern Nuclear

“The relationship with GE Hitachi is an exciting step on our continued journey towards maintaining nuclear energy’s key position in providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy for future generations,” said Stephen Kuczynski, chairman, president and CEO, Southern Nuclear.
“We are fully committed to moving the industry forward, and by pursuing this goal together, we are best able to leverage our combined strengths in research and commercial operations to bring advanced nuclear technology to market.”

October 21, 2016, at Plant Farley, eighth graders from Rehobeth Middle School were able to watch operations training instructor Vince Richter trip the plant in the simulator as he explained the steps to a safe shutdown. Photo courtesy of Southern Nuclear

PRISM is a sodium-cooled, high energy neutron (fast) reactor design which uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies developed both in the U.S. and abroad.

Photo courtesy of GE

The PRISM design has benefited from the operating experience of EBR-II, an integral fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated for more than 30 years in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

The Future of Electricity is DIGITAL. Photo courtesy of GE

GEH believes that no U.S. fast spectrum reactor technology has more testing, design or operational experience than PRISM.

On this basis, PRISM seems well positioned to continue the licensing process and to generally provide a critical regulatory path for licensing of other advanced reactor technology in the U.S.

DIGITAL Power Plant Photo courtesy of GE

According to an analysis performed by GEH, which assumes a quantity of 178,000 metric tons of nuclear material contained in used fuel stocks worldwide, by using PRISM technology on a commercialized basis, all the world’s used fuel could eventually be consumed while at the same time providing enough clean, carbon-free energy to power all global households, (estimated at approximately 1.6 billion living units) for as long as 200 years, based on a per household consumption of 3,400 kWh/year.

POWER Digital Solution Architecture Photo courtesy of GE

About GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

Based in Wilmington, N.C., GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is a world-leading provider of advanced reactors and nuclear services.

Established in 2007, GEH is a global nuclear alliance created by GE and Hitachi to serve the global nuclear industry.

The nuclear alliance executes a single, strategic vision to create a broader portfolio of solutions, expanding its capabilities for new reactor and service opportunities.

The alliance offers customers around the world the technological leadership required to effectively enhance reactor performance, power output and safety.

https://nuclear.gepower.com  

Follow GEH on LinkedIn and Twitter @gehnuclear.

Photo courtesy of GE

About Southern Nuclear

Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), is a leader among the nation's nuclear energy facility operators and an innovator in advanced nuclear technologies.

Southern Nuclear is an essential part of Southern Company's energy portfolio, and its importance will continue to grow as America transitions to a low-carbon energy future.

While the company produces clean, safe and reliable nuclear energy, it's also an economic engine powered by quality jobs and community service.

Southern Nuclear operates a total of six units for Alabama Power and Georgia Power at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala.; the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga.; and the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Ga.

Southern Nuclear is the licensee of two new nuclear units currently under construction at Plant Vogtle that are among the first nuclear units being constructed in the United States in more than 30 years.

Southern Nuclear has received numerous accolades in 2016 for leadership in the advancement of nuclear energy including the Special Achievement Award by the United States Nuclear Infrastructure Council and the Presidential Citation by the American Nuclear Society.

Southern Nuclear also received two of the Nuclear Energy Institute's Top Innovative Practice awards and a special recognition for achieving excellence in research and performance.

Southern Nuclear's Plant Hatch received the ANS Operations & Power Division's Utility Achievement Award for plant improvements that resulted in a record-setting refueling outage duration.

The company's headquarters is in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Twitter: @SouthernNuclear

Facebook: facebook.com/southernnuclear   

www.southerncompany.com/southernnuclear  

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