Declare Your Independence
Minuteman Advanced Core Monitoring Systems Provide Freedom From Fuel Vendors and their Core Monitoring Systems.
Proven Flexible
Reliable
Background
RETAQS, Inc. is a US based consulting company specializing in fuels and
reactor engineering. Established in 1996, RETAQS has provided fuels and
reactor engineering qualification, training, and support to most US utilities
and some European utilities. RETAQS employs engineers with significant
plant experience as reactor or fuels engineers. This experience allows
RETAQS to offer immediately effective engineering support to the plant
and bring real-life experience to the classroom.
Tarkus, Ltd. is a European based consulting company established in 1995
to specialize in codes used for reactor core calculations. Tarkus has provided
the development of computer codes to many European and U.S. utilities.
Tarkus employs engineers with significant experience in the development,
installation, and on-line support of nuclear codes. Tarkus products include
graphical data analysis tools, data handling tools, core monitoring systems,
and related consulting.
Joint Venture
Tarkus, Ltd. and RETAQS, Inc., having effectively worked together on
other core monitoring projects, have formed a joint venture to market an
advanced core monitoring system. With the code development experience of
Tarkus and the reactor engineering experience of RETAQS, these two companies
are in a unique position to market a core monitoring system with unprecedented
flexibility and capability.
System Features
The revolutionary feature of this system is that it can use any neutronic
simulator as its central calculation model. This gives the utility the
ability to use the same code for design work and on-line monitoring. Additionally, this capability gives the utility the freedom
to change fuel vendors without needing to change core monitoring systems.
By not changing core monitoring codes, the impact to the operating staff
of changing fuel vendors can be significantly reduced.
Another unique feature of this system is its web-based architecture,
enabling monitor and predictor access using any compatible web browser.
By employing this type of architecture, the system can be easily administered
by a utility's typical IT staff. This arrangement also simplifies networking
of the system, allowing ready access to core monitoring data and functions
from anywhere on the corporate LAN, and, with the proper firewall, from
anywhere in the world.
Minuteman Advanced Core
Monitoring Systems are available in PWR and BWR versions. This unique system
uses the neutronic simulator of choice for each utility allowing a direct
comparison of the core design and core monitoring codes. With the built-in
ability to switch neutronic simulators, this core monitoring system gives
the utility freedom from any fuel vendor and allows you to switch fuel
vendors as often as you like while avoiding the cost and complexity of
changing core monitoring codes. Fuel vendor transitions become virtually
transparent to the operating staff!
System Features
