From a legislative point of view, the principal activities include nuclear safety demonstrations for nuclear power plant commissioning and lifetime extension, or other legally required safety demonstrations such as facility reconstructions, changes in operating conditions, or other changes that may affect nuclear safety.

From the operational point of view, we perform a series of support activities to monitor and control operational parameters, and evaluate deviations from nominal parameters, including streamline operational, control, and maintenance activities, etc. Based on the results of these support activities, we design the necessary measures to increase operational reliability and safety.

Safety assessment is implemented by:

  • Continuous monitoring of nuclear and technical safety (supervision, inspection, testing)
  • Deterministic assessment of nuclear safety (safety assessment reports)
  • Probabilistic assessment of nuclear safety (the so-called "living probability safety assessment" - Living PSA and its applications – e.g.: Safety Monitor)
  • All the abovementioned activities include the latest research and development findings
Computing station
Reactor Control Panel
Simulation of the mapping of the evacuation of schools during a severe accident
Map view and evaluation of radiative situation monitoring
Mathematical model of pressure vessel
System SCORPIO-VVER
Model of experimental facility THAI+ operated by Becker-Technologies GmbH.
Model of experimental facility THAI+ operated by Becker-Technologies GmbH.

Our Services

  • Safety analyses for the purpose of the licensing process, including independent verification analyses and documentation
  • Preparation and updating of safety reports and license documentation
  • Preparation of methodological procedures for analysis and for the own licensing process
  • Conceptual studies on nuclear safety
  • Analyses and preparation of supporting documents for the fuel cycle
  • Analyses of severe accidents and strategies for severe accident management
  • Analyses of the thermomechanical behavior of nuclear fuel in operational and emergency conditions
  • Best-estimate analysis of nuclear fuel coating damage and evaluation of fission product release into the coolant
  • Analyses and preparation of backgrounds for calculation of radiological consequences of accidents
  • Analyses and preparation of backgrounds for PSA studies
  • Thermohydraulic analysis for PTS needs
  • Experiment evaluation
Safety Analyses

 

 

Reactor physics and fuel cycle support
Severe accidents and thermomechanics
  • Comprehensive analyses of the operation of nuclear power plants
  • Suggestions for measures to improve the safety of the operation
  • Development and implementation of PSA applications for risk-oriented decision making:
    • Immediate operational risk monitors for NPPs
    • Online maintenance
    • LaP optimization and test intervals
    • Prioritization of safety measures
    • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Development of Probability Safety Assessment Methods (PSA)
Reliability and risks - Jaroslav Holý
  • Analyses to support the development of emergency operating procedures and severe accident management guidelines (EOPs and SAMGs)
  • Validation of emergency procedures
  • Implementation of new best estimate methods
  • Support for margin management on NPPs
  • Proposals for measures to improve the ergonomics of emergency procedures
  • Evaluation of training on simulators, proposals for modification of procedures
  • Training in the area of safety analyses including the development of input decks
  • Training in the severe accident phenomenology of  and SAM
  • PSA training
  • Development and implementation of supporting tools to support the training of operators, TCS, and emergency center staff
Safety Analyses

 

 

Reliability and risks - Jaroslav Holý
Severe accidents and thermomechanics
  • Reliability, serviceability, and maintainability analyses of:
    • Complex technological systems in energy, transport, production
    • Protection and control systems including digital deterministic (FMEA, FMECA) methods and probability assessment (eg fault-tree method)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment, Human Factor and Common Cause Failures in Reliability Analyses
  • Support of Reliable Designing, Application of the Diversity Principle
  • Proposals for measures to increase reliability (project and organizational)
  • Analysis of operational experience (adverse events), identification of potential outages
  • Analyses of equipment performance in severe accidents
  • Monitoring and development of methodologies for assessing the life and reliability of safety-critical PO and SO measuring chains
  • Analyses of production reliability, efficiency evaluation, and maintenance quality
  • Reliable maintenance programs
  • Analyses of human factor reliability
  • Collection and evaluation of device reliability data
  • Calculation of reliability parameters of components and systems, reliability prediction
Reliability and risks - Jaroslav Holý
  • Development of new analytical procedures
  • Verification and validation of computational programs and models
  • Experiment evaluation
Safety Analyses

 

 

Severe accidents and thermomechanics
  • Methodological support in the field of safety
  • Assessment of safety documentation and independent verification analyses
  • Supporting the commissioning of new nuclear resources
  • Transfer of the latest R&D observations for applications in decision-making procedures
Director of division
  • Criticality analyses, shielding (pools, fresh and spent fuel containers)
  • Risk-based categorization of equipment for inspection and maintenance purposes
  • Development of tools and methodologies for diagnostic of regimes and components of nuclear power plants
  • Development of complex systems for advanced processing of operational data, including their secure connection to existing NPP operating systems
  • Implementation of advanced information, communication, and mobile technologies to increase operational safety and reliability
  • Training courses and internships in the field of the safety assessment of NPP operation
Director of division