Robotics and remote inspection
Mission definition, payload and data requirements, route engineering, site constraints, qualification, trial and scale-up basis.
Mandate 03 / De-risk & Deploy Innovation
Nuclear technology qualification and deployment.
For robotics, sensing, additive manufacturing, software and AI use cases that are technically promising but not yet ready for nuclear implementation. NIQS defines requirements, tests, evidence gates and the controlled path to deployment.
Direct answer
NIQS converts a defined plant need into a staged nuclear evidence route. The work identifies what must be proven, which tests and interfaces matter, where qualification responsibility sits and what evidence supports a go, modify or stop decision.
Call NIQS when
The technology is promising. The nuclear path is not yet defined.
- A robotic inspection mission must be qualified against coverage, data quality and plant constraints.
- Additive manufacturing needs a code, material, process, inspection and review pathway.
- An advanced sensing or software method needs validation, alarm logic, data controls and lifecycle ownership.
- Obsolescence or supply constraints create a credible component-manufacturing use case.
- The owner needs staged decision gates before funding a larger deployment.
Mandate shape
Innovation Deployment Readiness Review, qualification roadmap or staged implementation programme.
Qualification logic
A staged evidence route, not innovation theatre.
The programme begins with a real plant need and defined use-case boundary. Evidence is built only where it answers a code, performance, quality, inspection, software, cybersecurity or authorised-review question.
01 / Use casePlant need, asset or mission boundary, target decision and expected decision value.
02 / RequirementsFunctions, codes, interfaces, materials, data, performance and plant constraints.
03 / Gap analysisTechnology maturity, nuclear-specific gaps, quality controls, integration and lifecycle ownership.
04 / Evidence gatesAnalysis, test, inspection, cybersecurity, supplier and authorised-review questions.
05 / PilotControlled build or mission, acceptance criteria, deviations and findings.
06 / DeploymentQualified boundary, procedures, controls, verification and scale-up decision.
Controlled work products
Evidence packages for staged owner decision gates.
- Use-case screenDecision value, feasibility, exclusions, constraints and prioritisation.
- Requirements specificationFunctions, interfaces, code, material, performance, data and quality controls.
- Deployment gap matrixQuestion, evidence needed, accountable owner and proposed resolution route.
- V&V and qualification strategyStages, evidence gates, tests, inspections, reviews and owner decisions.
- Pilot dossierPlan, acceptance criteria, results, deviations and findings.
- Deployment and lifecycle planQualified boundary, change control, monitoring, maintenance and periodic review.
Smallest sensible start
Innovation Deployment Readiness Review.
A fixed-scope decision package before money is committed to a pilot that proves the wrong thing.
Additive manufacturing
Use-case screening, code and regulatory gaps, material and process logic, inspection, test and staged pilot gates.
Advanced sensing and software
Decision mapping, performance requirements, validation, data and alarm logic, interfaces and lifecycle controls.
AI tied to a real decision
Use-case boundary, data suitability, human oversight, validation, failure modes and controlled operating limits.
Claim boundary
This mandate describes the qualification and deployment route. It does not imply qualified production, turnkey autonomy, regulatory approval or suitability of any technology before the required evidence exists.
Confidential first contact
Start with one use case and the decision it must support.
NIQS will return a Fit / No-Fit view and the evidence questions that should control the next investment.
Do not submit classified, export-controlled or plant-sensitive information through the public form.