From September 26 - 30, 2016, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference 2016 was held in Vienna International Center. Around 2500 delegates from 155 IAEA Member States, international organizations, NGO’s and the media attended the conference. Senior Vice President of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation and President of Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute (SNERDI), Dr. Mingguang ZHENG made a speech named Design Setup the Basis of Economic Sustainability for Nuclear Power.

From the viewpoints of energy and civilization, Dr. ZHENG presented the dialectical relationships among economy, energy, safety and life, analyzed and proposed the prosperities and challenges of nuclear power development. He presumed that design, including philosophy or computerized design platform, plays a significant role for economic performances of nuclear power plants with facilitations for make, construction, commissioning and operation. He demonstrated that passive safety, standardization, serialization, localization and learning effect could effectively reduce the cost and he deemed that the assessment of electricity generation economy should consider all aspects including R&D and prototype development. In conclusion, he appeared that, as clean energy, nuclear should call for policy to reduce financing costs and harmonize regulation and licensing. The speech was highly recognized and appraised by attendees.

Director General Yukiya Amano noted the significant contribution that nuclear power can make to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, improved energy security and the availability of energy in increasingly large quantities needed for development. The sustainable development of nuclear power requires the trust and acceptability from the public, member states should strive to achieve efficiency and safety of nuclear power projects, minimize the waste and committed to the construction of ecological civilization.

It is noted that the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) – CAP150 and CAP200, designed by SNERDI, was included in the brochure of International SMRs edited by IAEA.