Portfolio & Past Performance

Brantley Industries has delivered first-of-a-kind engineering for nuclear fission and fusion clients since 2014. Our principals bring prior experience on some of the most demanding nuclear projects in the United States and abroad.

Brantley Industries past performance

Nuclear Generating Plant FLEX Facilities

Clients: Xcel Energy, FPL, Ameren, PFES · Project Manager: Jake Brantley

AE engineering and design of first-of-a-kind Class I* post-Fukushima (NEI 12-06 FLEX) beyond-design-basis structures, delivered to specifications with PE-stamped drawings, analysis, calculations and general notes.

FLEX structure at Prairie Island Nuclear Plant: superstructure and foundation engineering, analysis and design, field construction response and NRC correspondence
Class I* FLEX structure foundations at Turkey Point, Port St. Lucie and Callaway
Seismic code reconciliation of the Callaway post-Fukushima superstructure
Parametric, ANSYS-based structural and foundation design algorithm with calculation automation
Delivered on time and under budget; passed NRC and plant inspections

Completed hardened FLEX storage building at a nuclear plant site — Completed post-Fukushima FLEX structure

FLEX building under construction with reinforcing steel — FLEX structure under construction

Copernicus Nuclear Fusion Power Facility

Client: Tri Alpha Energy (TAE Technologies) · Project Manager: Jake Brantley

Conceptual architectural, structural and electrical design and analysis for TAE’s Copernicus Q>1 fusion facility.

Developed the plant design basis documents, design inputs (loads) and regulatory guidance
Conceptual engineering design: civil, structural, electrical and mechanical
Analysis and design of the machine, cryoplant, power supply, emergency backup generator, warehouse/maintenance, administration and control, employee services, security and training, and fire house/medical buildings
AC distribution system conceptual design requirements and scoping design basis document; switchyard conceptual design (project management)

Copernicus fusion facility site concept rendering and layout — Copernicus site concept (TAE / Brantley Industries)

Fusion Reactor Magnet Supports

Client: Tri Alpha Energy · Project Manager: Jake Brantley

Structural and mechanical design basis and conceptual engineering design of fusion reactor magnet supports, plus reactor structural design consulting and R&D consulting.

ANSYS finite element results for fusion magnet supports — ANSYS FEA of magnet supports

Principal team experience

Before and alongside Brantley Industries, our principals held engineering and leadership roles at Westinghouse, Duke Energy / Progress Energy, Bechtel and TAE Technologies, and more recently on SMR and fusion programs including NuScale (via Kinectrics) and Zap Energy.

Small modular reactor · Featured

NuScale SMR Reactor Building Crane: Senior Design Verification

Lead Nuclear Structural Engineer (contract via Kinectrics) · Aug 2022 – Aug 2023

Served as senior design verifier for the NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Reactor Building Crane, including the crane and lower block assembly connections, ensuring compliance with ASME NOG-1. Also performed engineering and design verification for ANO, Brunswick (BNP), Harris (HNP), Oconee and Grand Gulf.

Fusion

Zap Energy: Principal Engineer, Fusion Device Components

Principal Engineer · July 2023 – present

Structural and thermal FEA, design basis development, and qualification of first-of-a-kind fusion device components to ASME BPVC Section III, Division 4.

AP1000 (Westinghouse)

Lead engineering and structural analysis supervision for AP1000 containment internal structures and structural modules: design criteria, design methods, load reconciliation, mass concrete and severe thermal gradients. Developed the ANSYS parametric analysis approach for qualifying nuclear structural modules for 200+ loading conditions. Work supported VC Summer, Vogtle, Sanmen and Haiyang.

Crystal River 3 (Progress / Duke Energy)

ISFSI project concrete/steel analysis and design, spent fuel pool system engineering, Radio project lead engineering, steam generator replacement root cause investigation, construction support, and the Duke fleet seismic response to Fukushima.

Watts Bar Unit 2 (Bechtel)

NQA-1 containment analysis, steel containment vessel and internal structures (RPV supports, pipe whip systems), pipe support design and the Integrated Interaction Program.

Fusion & nuclear medicine (TAE)

First wall technology development, reactor supports, pulsed power supports, blast shields and diverter platforms, and lead neutronics for a BNCT program: facility shielding, activation analysis and beam shaping using DAGMC/MCNP on HPC.

AP1000 containment under construction — AP1000 containment internal structures

Nuclear plant spent fuel pool — Spent fuel pool engineering

Rendering of a fusion experiment device — Fusion device support structures

Plants and programs supported: Watts Bar II · Crystal River 3 · AP1000 · VC Summer · Vogtle · Sanmen · Haiyang · Callaway · Prairie Island · Port St. Lucie · Turkey Point · ANO · Brunswick · Harris · Oconee · Grand Gulf · NuScale SMR · Copernicus (fusion) · Zap Energy (fusion)

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