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The nuclear industry is in a crisis with falling profits, budget overruns, and reactor shutdowns. Tightening regulations require a need to streamline plant licensing while growing competition from renewables and cheaper gas demand improved plant economics. Innovative reactor technologies and faster development is the need of the hour for nuclear manufacturers. Our extensive simulation tools enable the nuclear industry to optimize the design, construction, and operation of the next generation of nuclear plants through digitalization of the design cycle.
The nuclear industry is in a crisis with falling profits, budget overruns, and reactor shutdowns. Tightening regulations require a need to streamline plant licensing while growing competition from renewables and cheaper gas demand improved plant economics. Innovative reactor technologies and faster development is the need of the hour for nuclear manufacturers. Our extensive simulation tools enable the nuclear industry to optimize the design, construction, and operation of the next generation of nuclear plants through digitalization of the design cycle.
On paper, at least, the nuclear industry offers an almost unlimited supply of low-carbon energy. However, poor plant economics, reliability issues and environmental and safety concerns have damaged nuclear power’s reputation, causing the premature closure of existing power stations and a reduction in the support for commissioning the next generation of reactors. The challenge is to reduce design cycles to under three years and lower licensing and construction timelines by 50%. Meanwhile, nuclear plant efficiencies must be improved as well as streamlining the regulatory licensing process. How do existing manufacturers and the new, innovative nuclear startups tackle this energy environment? Nuclear power is only viable through the extensive use of multi-physics modeling and simulation, which can predict and perfect the performance of all aspects of the operation of a nuclear reactor, from accelerated licensing to operational excellence and optimized economic performance.
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Simulation has always played an important part in optimizing the performance and safety of nuclear power plants. Find out how CFD simulation helps accurately predict and improve the performance of nuclear reactors and complex sub-systems.
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The commissioning of a new nuclear reactor requires extensive simulation, both to demonstrate the safety and economic viability of new concepts and also to accelerate the lengthy licensing process. This process is dependent on simulation tools that can efficiently and accurately model multidimensional flow and thermal behavior in place of legacy simulation tools. Ideally, these tools should be able to represent all complex reactor systems in the construction of a "digital twin" or "virtual reactor model."
Only the best simulation tools have the validated capability to capture all of the physics required to accurately predict the thermal-hydraulic performance of a cooling system over the full range of operating scenarios required to demonstrate the safety and efficiency of a nuclear reactor.
With timescales of many thousands of years, only comprehensive thermo-mechanical simulation of the structural, heat transfer, and radiation behavior of storage can provide public confidence and financial security into proposed spent-fuel storage and disposal solutions.
The commissioning of a new nuclear reactor requires extensive simulation, both to demonstrate the safety and economic viability of new concepts and also to accelerate the lengthy licensing process. This process is dependent on simulation tools that can efficiently and accurately model multidimensional flow and thermal behavior in place of legacy simulation tools. Ideally, these tools should be able to represent all complex reactor systems in the construction of a "digital twin" or "virtual reactor model."
Only the best simulation tools have the validated capability to capture all of the physics required to accurately predict the thermal-hydraulic performance of a cooling system over the full range of operating scenarios required to demonstrate the safety and efficiency of a nuclear reactor.
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