Critical Nuclear Plant Systems

Critical nuclear-grade equipment must be qualified in accordance with stringent nuclear regulations and equipment qualification requirements, ensuring functional capability and mechanical integrity throughout its service life, including under seismic and operational loading conditions.

SOCITEC develops customized vibration and seismic isolation solutions that help safety-related equipment achieve compliance with nuclear qualification requirements while ensuring long-term operational reliability.

Our devices are also designed to withstand radiation and temperatures ranging from -200°C to +350°C, providing long-term protection against the expansion and vibrations of structural and critical elements in nuclear sites.

Nuclear critical systems operate under some of the world’s most stringent qualification and safety requirements. Safety-related equipment must demonstrate its ability to maintain functional integrity and mechanical performance throughout the plant lifetime, under normal operating conditions as well as rare but extreme events such as earthquakes and other design-basis loads.

Because nuclear safety leaves no room for failure, safety-related equipment and isolation solutions must successfully complete stringent qualification programmes and performance testing. They must demonstrate reliable operation under radiation, qualified temperature conditions, seismic loading and postulated accident scenarios throughout their service life.

This combination of seismic survivability, long-term durability and radiation resistance is what distinguishes nuclear-grade isolation from standard industrial damping.