International Nuclear Power

The rapid growth of nuclear power internationally demonstrates the will of the international community to fight carbon emissions as well as to enhance independence from fossil fuel producers. Nuenergy has been a key participant in this process from Asia, the Middle East, to North and South America.

Since 1993, we have completed Owner’s Reviews & Assessments, Stood up New Engineering Organizations, Developed Innovative Solutions, and Advanced Engineering Training for the nuclear power industry.

With respect to new builds, we have helped select technology, develop organizations, prepare standards, as well as monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving each organization’s goals. Our contributions have been primarily in the engineering and licensing areas, specifically in assuring that once a technology has been selected, the selected vendors’ products meet all regulatory and engineering requirements and thus the nuclear units are licensable.

An important aspect of our contribution has been the recognition that ultimately each client must have the capacity to meet goals independently, with minimal reliance on external specialists. We therefore look at mentoring of client staff as a key function and use every opportunity to develop client staff.

Notable Specific Experience

New Build Support

• Technology Selection. This involved review of multiple NSSS Technologies, including the APR 1400, AP1000, ABWR, & EPR. For each client, a set of unique criteria was developed and applied to support the final recommendation.   

• Development of New Engineering Organization, Design Authority with attributes of conservative decision making and technical conscience, Engineering Standards, and Processes to establish and maintain Design Bases, and mentoring of engineering personnel  This process involved specific recommendations based on an understanding  of the unique needs of each client, combined with  the  flexibility necessary  for each phase of the project .

• Development of New Licensing/Regulatory Assurance Organization and Processes to establish and maintain the Licensing Basis.  This process involved defining the “Licensing Basis” and its role in design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the new plant. This activity is performed in coordination with the Regulator. Staff mentoring and training is part of this activity as well as other Licensing activities.

• Assurance of Fidelity of Operational Procedures with Design and Licensing Bases Requirements

• AP1000 Support

  • Westinghouse’s QA self-assessment of AP1000 Engineering Processes

  • NRC’s Engineering Design Verification (EDV) Inspection

  • Startup Engineering

• Barakah APR 1400 Support

  • Development of New Engineering Organization

  • Development of Engineering Standards

  • Fidelity of Operational Documents

  • Authoring and validation of Normal, Emergency, and Abnormal Operating procedures

  • PSAR Review for FANR

US Contributor to IAEA:

• Chairing of a panel session at the Technical meeting on Design Review Process to Support Expansion and New NPP Programme

• Configuration management review of VVER1200 of Ostrovets NPP

• Development and Conduct of a Vertical Slice Implementation workshop

• Development and Tech Editing of TECDOC2018, Design Basis Reconstitution for Long Term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants

Other International Experience

• Lender’s Review of Embalse Refurbishment, CANDU-6, Argentina

• Finite Element Analysis for the Chin Shan NPP, BWR-4, Taiwan

• Independent Design Review the complete line of hydraulic and mechanical snubber products for Sanwa Tekki Corporation, Japan

Operating NPPs

• Development and Implementation of Risk-Informed Safety Systems Functional Assessments (SSFA)

• Development and Implementation of Review/Reconstitution of Calculations

• Support of industry self-assessment and inspection activities for NRC Engineering Inspections

Primary Services

With our expertise, background and experience, we offer assistance in the following areas:

NEW BUILD

• Technology Selection

• Development of New Engineering Organization, Design Authority, Engineering Standards, and Processes to establish and maintain Design Basis

• Development of New Licensing/Regulatory Assurance Organization and Processes to establish and maintain Licensing Basis as well as “Compliance” related activities.

• Oversight of Client’s Engineering organization, to include Mentoring of New Generation of Engineers

EXISTING NPP

• Design and Engineering Inspections/Assessments

ADVANCED ENGINEERING TRAINING

• Design And Licensing Bases Fundamentals & The Art of Design Review

• The Art of Calculations

SPECIALTY PROJECTS

• Design Basis Fidelity

• Fidelity of Operation with Respect to the Design Basis

• Application of Regulations and Licensing Basis to Design, Operation, and Maintenance

• Application of the Single Failure Criterion

Key Personnel

Our key personnel have been involved in a number of projects and is well versed in working in the multinational, multicultural workplace environment.