News and Blog Posts

Platom’s story begins a new chapter on the eve of the company’s 25th anniversary, when Kirsi Hassinen, M.Sc. (Tech.), starts as the company’s CEO on 1.10.2023.

Platom has delivered a spent nuclear fuel drying system for Posiva’s encapsulation plant, where Posiva is the responsible licence holder. Drying of nuclear fuel is essential part of the encapsulation process to ensure long term safety of nuclear fuel in the capsule.

In September 2022, we renewed our organizational and service structure so that we could serve our customers even more efficiently based on their needs.

This week the IAEA is organizing an event and Platom’s Leading Expert Ville Nurmilaukas has been nominated to participate in this Technical Meeting on Instrumentation & Control and Computer Security for Small Modular Reactors (SMR) and Microreactors (MR).

Management systems play an important role in the nuclear industry. The industry has certain special requirements that the management systems need to meet, and above all, the management systems shall enable safe and high-quality operations.

The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority’s (STUK) Nuclear Safety Guide (YVL) A.5 requires the licensee to draw up a licensing plan for the construction of a new nuclear facility or for an extensive modification of an existing facility. The plan presents how the fulfilment of nuclear and radiation safety requirements is ensured and verified at different stages of the project or modification.

In the nuclear industry, licensing and qualification documentation is usually divided into three levels: plant, system and component level. This article explores the component-level documentation.

When licensing a new nuclear facility, a preliminary system description shall be developed for each system of the facility. This document is called the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR).