Calculations and Design Basis Programs
Nuclear power plant regulatory compliance, design basis control, modification support, and engineering analyses nearly always require the availability of design basis calculations. Sargent & Lundy has extensive experience and expertise in developing and verifying nuclear plant design and operating system calculations needed for regulatory compliance, plant upgrades, and emerging issues.
Industry leading expert staff
We prepare well documented and organized calculations that can be rapidly retrieved and used as needed. Our seasoned discipline specialists routinely work with a client's existing calculations, sometimes decades old, to incorporate them into analyses for new modifications or for verifying design bases and margins. Our staff of industry-leading experts is recognized for their proficiency in addressing the most complex and highly specialized calculations needed to support operability or minimize the cost of modifications.
Representative projects
- Block wall analyses
- Dose assessments
- Electrical system analyses using ETAP©
- Heavy load drop calculations
- Hydraulic calculations
- Load tap transformer addition analyses
- Reconstitution and upgrade of approximately 160 safety-related mechanical, electrical, and I&C calculations to comply with the plant's current design basis