With every design investigation, comes improvements, which is making nuclear reactor designers and the respective human resource experts think outside the box.
Agreements on the design of new nuclear reactors for the UK drew a step closer when the Office of Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency awarded interim design acceptance certificates (IDACs) in December. The two government organisations have been carrying out a generic design assessment (GDA) for two types of reactors in the UK: EDF and AREVA’s UK EPR and Westinghouse’s AP1000. But they have also identified a number of issues that need to be sorted out.
Read more: Nuclear Energy Insider
