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| Personal Name | Bautista, Unico A. |
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| Resource Title | Development of a Modified and Stakeholder-Sensitive IAEA-RTA: An Industry driven Reactor Technology Assessment for Assessing Small Modular Reactor (SMR) for Potential Deployment in the Philippines |
| Date Issued | 29 June 2026 |
| Abstract | This dissertation developed and demonstrated a localized, stakeholder-sensitive Reactor Technology Assessment (RTA) framework for evaluating Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technologies and supporting evidence-based policy formulation for potential deployment in the Philippines. Although Executive Order No. 164 and related policy developments have introduced nuclear power as a potential component of the Philippine energy mix, the country still lacks a localized, stakeholder-sensitive, and industry-driven framework for evaluating reactor technologies. Existing tools, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency Reactor Technology Assessment (IAEA-RTA), provide a systematic and internationally recognized basis for reactor evaluation, but they do not fully capture the deployment conditions of a deregulated and industry-driven electricity market such as that of the Philippines. To address this gap, the study developed a modified and stakeholder-sensitive adaptation of the IAEA-RTA framework for the Philippine power-sector context. The modified framework retained the original ten Key Elements of the IAEA Reactor Technology Assessment (IAEA-RTA) as its conceptual structure. For the Philippine case study, stakeholder-derived weighting assigned a value of 0.00% to Key Element 6 (Balance of Plant Design for Purposes Other than Electricity Production); consequently, the applied industry-driven assessment used nine weighted Key Elements while preserving the complete ten-Key-Element framework. Philippine energy policies, stakeholder statements, private-sector considerations, and deployment-related factors were incorporated into the assessment process. An Input-Process-Output structure and an industry-driven evaluation matrix were developed to improve the transparency, traceability, and applicability of the assessment workflow. More than 80 SMR technologies were initially reviewed using publicly available technical and institutional references. Based on deployment maturity, ava |
| Degree Course | Doctor of Philososphy in Energy Engineering |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Small Modular Reactors (SMRs); Reactor Technology Assessment (RTA); Stakeholder Preference Integration; Nuclear Energy Policy; Philippines |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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