These revolve around the use of either an owned or distributed model.
There are very different site layouts and different levels of site conditions.The seismic conditions in particular are very important, as they have a major impact on the design of the safety systems and therefore increase the complexity of the design.
Existing power stations also vary in capacity, and the various nuclear reactor technologies are also different from each other..The strategy for achieving the required level of standardisation is to isolate variability.Six standardised seismic isolation solutions can deal with most of the seismic conditions we will encounter.
A standardised, customisable heat transfer system allows the new nuclear systems to plug in to the existing coal plant infrastructure.A standardised cross-section design encloses the various types of reactor technologies while being able to expand to deal with various sizes of capacity that are required.
The non-safety related systems for different reactors have strong similarities and can be standardised across different reactor technologies.. A key driver for cost and duration of projects is the complexity of design, construction, and approval process for safety related systems.
Traditionally, custom-designed nuclear grade facilities enclose a mixture of safety-critical, safety-supporting and other systems.We create solutions and give them to clients – for them to use.
That means our product has to work independently of us – it has to achieve a level of external usability and stability..Working in this way has also given us a lot of scope in terms of choosing what sort of team we want to be, to evolve sometimes according to the individuals who join the team, and to decide our own overall development path – but we’ve always been tethered strongly to the core intellectual drive of the company.. What is your position on AI/generative design/automation in construction/robotics in construction?.
AI relies on large data sets.These aren’t typically available in our sector so the use of AI in construction has been somewhat limited by that.
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