Strengths
- Nuclear data generation
- Good UK SME base – niche capabilities
- Detector manufacture
- Digital systems
- Generic condition monitoring
- Understanding of UK regulatory process
- Operator training and internationally recognized capability
- Maintenance of advisory and technical capabilities
- Some work on safety certification of embedded software
Weaknesses
- Access to national labs & facilities limited by bureaucracy, IP issues and affordability
- Business dominated by large offshore companies
- Poor security regulation
- Instrumentation a ‘poor relation’ to rest of nuclear activity
- Overburdened with regulation
- Systems Integrity in a NP context
Opportunities
- MOX fuel
- Lifetime extension issues – bridging the gap
- Safeguards
- Safety
- Cyber security
- Emergency planning, terrorism
- Fault detection
- Data maintenance – recording and longevity
- Certification of embedded software
- New control system strategies for Gen IV
- Load following strategies – grid issues
- Control systems for decommissioning
- Long life control systems for waste management & storage
- Experiential feedback
Threats
- Loss of access to facilities
- Loss of access to nuclear data
- Obsolescence
- Life extension delaying new reactor build
- Environmental hazards
- Maintaining legacy capability
- He3 shortage
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