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§ Industry · 02

Nuclear power: reliability inside a safety culture.

Canadian CANDU stations and US PWR/BWR fleets operate under nuclear safety culture and regulator-controlled work practices. Droz provides reliability engineering and condition-monitoring services that meet station expectations: ANS-aligned, ASME-compliant, CINDE-certified inspectors, with documented procedures and trained-and-qualified personnel.

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Reactor types
CANDU · PWR · BWR
Standards
ANS · ASME · CINDE
Personnel
Trained & qualified · Documented
Engagement
Station-aligned programs
§ Operating context

Why downtime is brutal here.

Nuclear plant outages combine regulatory exposure, replacement-energy cost, and reactivity-management risk. The constraints are unlike any other generating fleet:

  • Regulator-controlled work. Every procedure, inspector, and instrument is qualified to the station's program; no ad-hoc deployment is acceptable.
  • Outage windows are immovable. Planned outage scope is locked months ahead. Late findings cascade into critical-path delays.
  • Conservative decision-making. Component degradation must be quantified, trended, and defended in pre-job briefs — not asserted.
  • Safety-related systems. Q-list equipment carries documentation chains the reliability vendor must satisfy.
§ Disciplines

Disciplines we apply.

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Vibration analysis

Cat. I–IV-certified analysts; ISO 10816 baselines on station rotating equipment.
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Thermography

Switchgear and transformer surveys with station-aligned procedures and documented findings.
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Ultrasound

Steam-trap surveys, leak detection, bearing lubrication assist on auxiliaries.
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Laser alignment

Feedwater, condensate, and balance-of-plant train alignment work.
§ Assets addressed

Assets we monitor.

DZ-A · Rotating equipment

Main & auxiliary trains

Turbines · BFPs · cooling pumps

  • Main turbine-generatorsTrended
  • BFPs & condensate pumpsTrended
  • Cooling-water pumpsTrended
  • MotorsTrended
DZ-B · Static equipment

ASME-coded boundaries

Heat exchangers · vessels · piping

  • Heat exchangers / condensersInsp.
  • ASME pressure vesselsASME
  • Piping systemsNDT
  • Auxiliary boilersASME
DZ-C · Electrical & controls

Switchyard & controls

Transformers · switchgear · MCCs

  • TransformersIR scan
  • Switchgear LV/MV/HVIR scan
  • Excitation systemsTrended
  • MCCsTrended
DZ-D · Production lines

Balance-of-plant

BOP trains · auxiliary cooling

  • BOP trainsTrained
  • Auxiliary cooling loopsTrained
  • Service-water systemsInsp.
  • Compressed airInsp.
§ Standards

Standards we operate under.

ANS
American Nuclear Society
ASME
Pressure-vessel & BPV codes
CINDE
Canadian NDT examination
Vibration Institute
Cat. I–IV
ISO 10816
Vibration severity
§ Software layer

Software services for this industry.

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AI-Driven Asset Intelligence

Pattern recognition on long-trended vibration data with conservative confidence reporting.
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Reliability Data Platform

Station-aligned data architecture; auditable change history.
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Modern IT Infrastructure

SOC 2 Type II information security; Protected-B handling.
§ Engagements

Case studies.

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Engagement case studies forthcoming

Public case studies for nuclear engagements are NDA-controlled; anonymized engagement summaries appear here once published.

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