Nuclear Industry

For over a quarter century Creare has served U.S. and foreign reactor vendors, architect engineers, electric utilities, component (pump, valve, etc.) manufacturers, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), national laboratories, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and the Department of Energy (DOE), applying strengths in multiphase flow, heat transfer, and fluid/structural interactions to address critical needs in the nuclear power industry.

Experimental projects have ranged from simple flow visualization tests to multi-million dollar programs requiring extensive, custom designed test facilities and computer data acquisition, reduction, and analysis. Analytical efforts have ranged from quick evaluation of phenomena to development and application of large computer codes.

Throughout our history of service to the nuclear industry, we have been at the forefront of many of the most important issues: pressurized thermal shock, thermal hydraulic events during the Three Mile Island accident, containment loads in pressure-suppression systems, flow instability in production reactors, emergency core cooling system (ECCS) performance, condensation-induced waterhammer, high-pressure injection, and boiling/flashing in service water systems.

Most recently, Creare has played a key role in the creation of a methodology for assessing frequency of thermal challenge to steam generator tubes under severe accident conditions in pressurized water reactors (PWR).