Project Management and Integration

ISEA project management capabilities include project and program planning, management and integration support, logistics support, with a broad range of tools in these areas. ISEA staff has managed multi-million dollar projects, and has a reputation for developing cost baselines acknowledged by outside advisory teams and the DOE as excellent bases from which start of project funding can be authorized.

ISEA utilizes project planning tools, such as work breakdown structures (WBS), Master Integrated Project Schedules (MIPS), project control plans and implementation procedures, project engineering plans and procedures, and the other plans often required by projects, such as systems engineering management plans, quality assurance and safety implementation plans.

ISEA has the capability to develop large, multi-level reliability and availability simulation models to determine expected on-line operational performance, operating costs, required spares, and spare logistics. These capabilities enable ISEA to effectively support engineering systems design and integration as these models inform the various teams about projected system performance. Capabilities in this area include development of simulation models, reliability database, uncertainty analyses, and simulation models.

ISEA staff performs a broad spectrum of risk and safety analyses in support of design, construction, and operating requirements. ISEA manages deterministic safety and probabilistic risk assessments, and has pioneered the development of some of these tools. ISEA develops detailed system models, accident progression event trees, and engineering analyses to support probabilistic risk assessment models. ISEA has extensive experience in result interpretation, including sensitivity analyses, and assisting clients with model use. ISEA performs safety integrity analyses including internal and external hazard assessments, analyzing flood, fire, and earthquake hazards. ISEA also develops integrated safety process and implementation plans, where safety is approached in a larger framework to include management oversight and independent safety reviews.

ISEA develops life-cycle cost estimates for all size projects, including multi-billion dollar projects. This includes bottom-up cost estimates for complex and unique structures, systems, and components from conceptual design through construction to commissioning.

ISEA has extensive experience with DOE/NNSA approved costing methods inclusive of manpower estimating, components and systems design and fabrication and regulatory/licensing costs, start-up, and project and construction management. ISEA can perform parametric operations and maintenance costing analyses as a function of use factor, power rates, staffing levels, and operation logistics or any other combination of cost parameters. ISEA has extensive experience with evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic contingency methods and their application to projects.

Safeguards and Policy

ISEA staff performs specialized, program-specific safeguards, non-proliferation and threat analyses. Examples of these analyses include vulnerability assessments of land-border, airport, seaport sites and O.R.-based modeling of smugglers’ networks. ISEA staff has appropriate clearances to perform these specialized analyses.

In support of safeguards and nonproliferation policies and strategies, ISEA has unique capabilities in implementing technologies and analyses. These include:

• Subject Matter Experts in Neutron/Gamma/X-Ray detection;
• Mixed-oxide process modeling & simulation; improving diversion path analysis;
• Safeguards by design and safeguards instrumentation development;
• Proliferation risk analysis.

Energy Systems Analysis

ISEA has broad capabilities in nuclear power systems engineering, analysis and design.

ISEA develops: functional analyses and performance requirements at plant and system levels, involving mission analysis, function and requirement identification, allocation and flow down, and system interface management; integrated configuration management programs to control changes to design bases throughout project lifecycle; innovative integrated systems performance methods that use inductive event tree-based and multi-attribute techniques. ISEA also provides the full range of reactor core design and engineering services including coupled neutronics/thermal- hydraulics system modeling and simulations. ISEA also models nuclear fuel cycles including decay, fuel burn, economics, and new reactor deployment. ISEA can evaluate separations technology to efficiently partition the actinides from fission products.

ISEA provides Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code experts for reactor core design and analysis and to forecast and analyze burn-up/depletion, mix & match, superimposed mesh tallies, and criticality speedup. This includes full digital design and simulation of advanced nuclear systems in 4D+ (space + time (construction and operation) + cost); advanced numerical methods and software development to leverage high-performance computing to develop high-fidelity, predictive simulations for reactor designs, accident analysis, etc. This service set includes computational fluid dynamics methods, radiation transport methods, large-scale software development, algorithm and software design for parallel execution, and applied mathematical methods.

ISEA has considerable experience in the performance of criticality safety evaluations and reactor criticality safety analysis. ISEA has unique capabilities with its team of experts to design, develop, fabricate, test, and deliver critical assembly machines of a variety of configurations allowing exploration of critical systems, including metallic and solutions. ISEA designs computer controlled systems including remote control and SCRAM systems.

With technical expertise in bulk power systems operations, energy management systems, state estimators, and other tools, ISEA can support clients in a variety of transmission system planning, operations, and policy solutions. ISEA significant industry experience directly related to characterizing transmission system capability using PTI PSS/E and MUST. ISEA has experience with available transfer capability and available flow-gate capacity studies. These analyses can be tailored specifically to generation entities, marketers, transmission providers, regulatory agencies or reliability organizations.

To provide predictability in the regulatory permitting process, ISEA uses a systems engineering approach. ISEA manages independent, multi-discipline design reviews to assure that regulatory requirements are addressed at the onset of the design process. ISEA staff has integrated teams of designers, operators and safety analysts to develop limiting conditions for operation, equipment surveillance requirements, and action statements to ensure that facilities are operated within their approved safety design envelopes.

ISEA provides on-site licensing assistance including FSAR updating and develops commitment identification and tracking systems.
ISEA conduct vertical slice inspections to confirm that systems integration of the design has been successful. ISEA also organizes and participates in readiness reviews, including inspections to confirm consistency between design, regulatory and functional requirements, training, maintenance, operating procedures, and as-built condition of the plant.

ISEA performs a full menu of services related to the National Environmental Protection Act (and related public laws such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act). Specific capabilities include flood plains and wetlands analyses, cumulative effects assessments, risk analysis and mitigation, integration of NEPA and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, section 7 consultations under the Endangered Species Act, assessment of cultural and natural resource management, assessment of incorporation of environmental justice considerations, preparation of Environmental Impact Statement Mitigation Action Plans and, maintenance of the EIS administrative record including preparation of the Record of Decision

Points of Contact
Management: Louis Guillebaud. louis.guillebaud@iseallc.com
Contract Administration: Louis Guillebaud. louis.guillebaud@iseallc.com

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