Nuscale Power LLC是由Fluor Corp.拥有的高级核小型模块化反应堆（SMR）技术的行业领先开发商，该技术由Fluor Corp.拥有。为了增加增长和项目资金。
与Spring Valley Aquisition Corp.的交易将于2022年第二季度开始结束，将创建一家价值19亿美元的公司，Fluor的股份设定为60％，低于80％。它将在股票符号SMR下进行交易。自2011年3000万美元投资以来，该公司一直是Nuscale的利益相关者。
Under the transaction, the combined company would gain up to $413 million in gross cash proceeds, including from new investors, and be renamed NuScale Power Corp., according to Portland, Ore.-based NuScale, which licensed the technology from Oregon州立大学。
市场推动
荧光主席艾伦·博克曼（Alan Boeckmann）在接受采访时告诉ENR，这项交易将加速Nuscale的市场推动力。新利luck他说，Fluor将继续提供工程服务，项目管理和供应链支持，并成为Nuscale的独家建筑商。
Boeckmann没有指出承包商是否或何时会进一步减少其股份。他说：“我们打算留下重要的投资者。”
与Nuscale相关的投资者和项目合作伙伴包括Doosan重工业和建筑，三星C＆T Corp.，JGC Holdings Corp.，IHI Corp，IHI Corp，Enercon Services Inc.，GS Energy，Sarens和工程公司Sarent＆Lundy。他们投资了约1.93亿美元。
TerraPower LLC, the design startup backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has chosen to build a demonstration of its 345-MWnatrium晚期核反应堆该公司表示，在怀俄明州的凯默勒（Kemmerer），在一家两单元燃煤工厂附近，该工厂将于2025年关闭，该公司表示，11月17日，该公司估计项目成本估计为40亿美元。
But NuScale's advanced SMR technology is the only modular design that has received U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission standard design approval for a 50-MW reactor module, which was去年也通过安全审查后给予。
该公司计划寻求更大版本的反应堆的类似认可。Nuscale获得了约13亿美元的财务支持，以资助设计和供应链开发，以制造反应堆模块，其中包括Fluor的6亿美元和5亿美元的5亿美元。
构建原型
Fluor的Boeckmann表示，Nuscale将在北美，韩国和日本设有反应堆模块制造地点，但没有透露位置或供应链合作伙伴。他说，该公司“在去年建立原型和性能测试”。
Boeckmann说，与建造传统的核电站不同，SMR民用建筑可以同时进行设计，加快行动开始。他说：“旧核电站在建设时从未完成设计。”“这是完全不同的。设计已经被批准了。”
该公司表示，Nuscale的电厂设计最近更名为Voygr，可用于四个，六个和12个单元的模块，每天可提供多达924兆瓦的电力。
"NuScale’s reactors are designed to safely shut down in an emergency and self-cool, indefinitely, with no need for operator or computer action, power or the addition of water – a first for any commercial nuclear power plant" the company says, adding that intellectual property supporting its technology "is protected by more than 600 granted or pending patents."
尽管NRC设计和安全批准，但NUSCALE反应堆将需要NRC合并的结构和操作许可证（COLA）。该过程可能需要长达2。5年的时间，它已经在建造六单元工厂，使用77兆瓦的Nuscale反应堆模块用于犹他州相关的市政电力系统。
The estimated 452-MW project anticipates construction start by 2024 at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory and is set to operate by 2029. It is part of a DOE program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using nuclear power to support intermittent renewable energy.
The project has faced delays and去年被缩放从原始的12个单元中。有关科学家的联合也引起了人们的关注关于Nuscale设计和其他高级核反应堆的安全性和成本问题。
扩大的可能性
Boeckmann noted government support to NuScale's SMR development since the Obama administration, emphasizing that “renewables don’t have the reliability factor, and that nuclear power "is a great complement. You need baseload power for the grid.” The NuScale reactor design generates less waste and the Idaho project will have onsite waste storage for 60 years.
Nuscale有大约19项协议，以开发或探索11个国家 /地区的SMR发电厂，其中1个罗马尼亚set to operate by 2028, and others planned in Poland. That country is one that agreed, along with others at the COP26 climate conference in Scotland last month, to phase out construction of coal-fired power facilities.
Boeckmann noted a number of Japan-based investors in NuScale's technology, contending that it may help to "turn around" the country's ban on nuclear power construction in place since the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011.
Nuscale总裁兼首席执行官John Hopkins说：“现在是加速和扩展我们将开拓性SMR技术带给更多客户的合适时机。”合并的公司。
Th合并协议”带来新的资本,reducing cash burn and providing public price discovery of NuScale's intrinsic value where investors have generally attributed only modest value," said Andrew Wittmann, senior construction sector analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. Equity Research. "At minimum, decreased cash usage is a positive." He said the deal "reduces Fluor's cash commitment and assigns a high intrinsic value to NuScale."
