Involvement at every stage in the life of facilities and equipment:
- Design of new facilities, including parametric studies according to safety requirements
- Design review of facilities for approval by regulators
- Assessment of existing facilities
- Definition of technical solutions to extend the lifespan of facilities (reinforcement, use of innovative methods, tests)
Innovation:
- Development, in partnership with EDF, of a worldwide unique constitutive law, able to take into account multiphysics effects (water, drying, prestressing, creep, thermal and cracking effects) on concrete containment structures in order to predict leakage flows through the reactor container (Vercors project).
- Development of structural digital twins for infrastructure enabling almost real-time monitoring
- Participation in research projects to design the nuclear structures of the future