Digital Integration and Assurance Activities

Descriptions

NNL have supported Cammell Laird in the proposal for Project Faith, which has now been successful in obtaining grant funding from BEIS. Project Faith is a 2-year R&D project to use the development of experimental rigs for thermal hydraulics tests as a model to implement modular construction techniques for the nuclear industry. A further aspect of the scope is the capture of the design process within a digital framework that can be used to accredit and support an asset throughout its lifetime. In terms of the thermal hydraulics capability it is intended that the experimental capability will be modular and will support a range of coolant options including boiling water reactors and sodium cooled fast reactors. We will develop a world leading CFD modelling capability to support the experimental facility and reduce the need for large scale rigs to develop new coolant technologies.