Core Management

Staff retirement and outplacement can leave you short handed. TransWare's engineers have been involved in nearly all aspects of nuclear fuel management. We have accumulated nearly thirty man-years of experience in the design, licensing, operation, and analysis of nuclear fuel.

Technical Audits, Bid Evaluations, and Licensing

TransWare can assist you with technical audits of fuel vendor design and manufacturing processes, performing technical evaluations and assessments of fuel vendor bids, and preparing and reviewing licensing topical reports. We can also support 50.59 applications.

Fuel Management and Core Support Calculations

Let TransWare help you support reactor operations by performing core design reviews and calculations, core follow and control rod pattern development calculations, control rod withdrawal sequences to criticality and plant startup, evaluation of cycle operating strategies, and system integration assessments. We are familiar with a wide variety of nuclear methods code packages.

Fuel Assembly Criticality Calculations

TransWare personnel can help you develop fuel assembly off-load and loading strategies, including optimization of in-core refueling shuffles. We can also perform criticality calculations using Monte Carlo and integral transport theory methods to assess spent fuel pool conditions.

Fuel Failure Assessment

TransWare has considerable expertise in the area of assessing fuel failure indications. Probably the most widely used software tool for assessing fuel failure indications, CHIRON, was originally developed by TransWare personnel for EPRI. We also completed a Microsoft Windows version of CHIRON, which has been released by EPRI. Additionally, TransWare personnel implemented EPRI's Fuel Integrity Monitoring and Failure Evaluation Handbook.