Advancing Human Performance & Safety in the Nuclear Industry
Maximize reliability and minimize human error
With a proven track record delivering complex, mission-critical solutions for even the most challenging environments, MTI is committed to supporting next-generation small modular reactors (SMRs) and other advanced energy technologies. Our expertise in optimizing human performance, ensuring operational safety, and enhancing efficiency improves reliability and minimizes risk.
MTI offers a comprehensive suite of human factors, safety, and systems engineering services tailored to the evolving needs and regulatory requirements of the nuclear industry. Our HFE experts provide critical analyses and solutions to the design, development, testing, and operational processes of Advanced Reactor facilities. Our experts identify, model, and mitigate risks through probabilistic risk assessment of existing and novel technologies to increase confidence across operational, maintenance, and regulatory considerations.
Human Factors in Nuclear Innovation
The transition to advanced nuclear energy requires more than cutting-edge technology. It also requires designing for humans within these novel systems. Effective human factors engineering avoids downstream rework by delivering safe and effective solutions from the start.
Design for human factors and safety minimizes emergent behavior and maximizes the ability of operators to effectively respond. This is especially critical for First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) risks and emergent behavior inherent in novel, complex technologies.
Our nuclear safety practice focuses on minimizing risks, improving human-system interactions, and ensuring nuclear operators, engineers, and decision-makers are equipped with human-centered solutions and probabilistic risk assessments to drive efficiency and safety.
The Right Expertise
Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) — Quantifying and mitigating human errors in SMRs and microreactors to minimize risk
Control Room & Interface Design — Delivering ergonomic, intuitive workspaces for operators; enhance workflows to drive efficiency
Smart Automation — Powerful human-automation teaming for operations and maintenance; catch errors BEFORE they occur, minimize impact WHILE they’re occurring, and maximize recovery AFTER they occur
Training & Simulation — Improve performance with advanced training programs tailored to next-gen nuclear technology
High Reliability Organization (HRO) — Build organizational culture that is relentless about safety, reliability, and continuous improvement
Support for SMR Deployment — Compliance, validation, and trust throughout design, deployment, and operation
Partnering for the Future of Nuclear Energy
We collaborate with nuclear regulatory agencies, technology developers, and energy innovators to ensure human factors engineering is a foundational element in scalable, carbon-free energy solutions.
Tailor MTI’s specialized expertise, experience with regulatory processes, and holistic approach to meet project priorities, budget, and schedule across the entire system lifecycle.
Partner with MTI to reduce risk, avoid downstream rework, lower operational costs, accelerate regulatory and external stakeholder approval, increase investment confidence, and avoid mishaps.