rearrange or reconfigure to suit site constraints and layout.

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.Our approach is to separate out these systems and then standardise and optimise them as much as possible..

Replacing coal: process.

simplification and standardisation.We don’t believe in the automation of everything.

We believe that there is and will always be a place for human intervention – a place for people to apply their design, construction and engineering know-how – it’s just about taking the tedious repetitive tasks away from humans and getting them to do the bits they’re good at.And that includes solving the parts that are not worth automating or that are hardest to automate.

There are very obvious ethical dimensions here too, about automating humans out of work – or, conversely, about automating the function of humans within working environments.. We’re not charging headlong into some dystopic future.But we need to be aware that technology is not in a vacuum.