Nuclear

GSE to provide optimization services for nuclear power plant

GSE Systems re-signed several agreements worth about $1 million with a nuclear utility customer for plant optimization services.
GSE to provide optimization services for nuclear power plant
(Source: GSE Solutions.)

GSE Systems re-signed several agreements worth about $1 million with a nuclear utility customer for plant optimization services.

Under the extension, GSE will continue to provide its thermal system monitoring and simulation software. This includes the ability to monitor thermal performance and improve efficiency through data validation and cycle isolation technology. The Maryland-based company said the utility will also have access to GSE's technical support.

GSE declined to say who the utility was, only that it was a long-customer and based in the Pacific Northwest. The region's sole nuclear station is the 1,216 MW Columbia Generating Station, which is owned by Energy Northwest. The facility uses a General Electric boiling water reactor and entered service in late 1984. Its current operating license expires in 2043.

However, an Energy Northwest spokesperson told us: "Although we have had contracts with GSE Solutions, we have not signed one in 2022 regarding plant optimization."

GSE offers its simulation software for nuclear and combined cycle gas turbine power plants, along with engineering, training and consulting services. Its customers include Southern Company’s Nuclear unit. In 2019, GSE delivered three training simulators for three plants: the Alvin W. Vogtle plant in Waynesboro, Georgia; the Edwin I. Hatch plant in Baxley, Georgia; and the Joseph M. Farley plant near Dothan, Alabama.

The company has also been awarded contracts to update nuclear power plant simulators in Slovakia and Korea. GSE has installed more than 1,000 systems worldwide.

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