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The Nuclear Electrical Engineer

An educational resource for electrical engineers in the nuclear power industry

Here you can find design tips on technical skills like cable and breaker sizing, short-circuit evaluations and more, PLUS deep-dive analysis of nuclear-specific topics like design basis, Tech Specs, UFSARs, and safety-related SSCs — built from primary source documents.

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A simple illustration of an LCO

The concept “limiting condition for operation” can be a bit tricky to understand at first. In the industry, we simply call them “LCOs”. This…

Licensing Basis

A brief into to the Tech Specs

The Technical Specifications, or Tech Specs for short, are the documented technical parameters that govern the plant’s safe operation. Whereas the UFSAR reads more…

Licensing Basis

The UFSAR

One of the most popular of the licensing basis documents that you’ll work with (or hear about) is the UFSAR. It stands for updated…

Licensing Basis

The General Design Criteria

The NRC established minimum design criteria, called the General Design Criteria (GDC), which every nuclear plant must incorporate. Those are located in Appendix A…

Design Basis

Has your internet slowed to a crawl?

Recently, I noticed almost overnight I was having problems with my internet connection. Something had changed because it wasn’t always so . . .…

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