Nuclear reactor reload licensing analysis system and method

A system for automatically performing reload licensing analysis of a nuclear reactor, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• at least one memory storing at least one database;
• and
• a software program including an input data collection module, an input data verification module, a plurality of nuclear reactor analysis modules, and a process module;
• said input data collection module adapted for receiving input data, said input data collection module with a user data interface sub-module adapted for receiving operator input and a system data collection sub-module adapted for collecting data from one or more data sources;
• said input data verification module adapted for comparing the received input data to predefined input verification data;
• said process module for processing each of the nuclear reactor analysis modules and generating module output data;
• said process module including a process ordering sub-module adapted for initiating automatic processing of each reactor analysis module.

A computer readable medium for performing computer executable instructions for a method of automated reload licensing analysis of a nuclear reactor, the method comprising:

• collecting system input data;
• scheduling a plurality of nuclear reactor analysis modules;
• processing each of the nuclear reactor analysis modules as a function of the scheduling, each nuclear reactor analysis module receiving module input data and generating module output data;
• verifying the module output data of each nuclear reactor analysis module by comparing the generated analysis output data to predetermined analysis output data for the particular nuclear reactor analysis module, wherein at least a portion of the nuclear reactor analysis modules receive verified module output data from another nuclear reactor analysis module as module input data;
• and
• generating a reload licensing report for the nuclear reactor as a function of the verified module output data from the two or more nuclear reactor analysis modules.