CAELUS

About Us

CAELUS is the first and only software company that aims to ensure a reduction in the time and costs related to the licensing of new nuclear technologies.

This is all possible thanks to the insights, knowledge, and hard work of a reasoned team down to the smallest details, close-knit and determined to shake up the nuclear power industry. We want to distribute cutting-edge software available to companies in the nuclear industry. To do that, we developed a fully integrated, AI-powered modular environment. This will allow engineers to standardize their workflow and automatically produce licensing documents required for the industrial deployment of new nuclear technologies, with a focus on S.M.R. reactors. Our goal is to reduce costly and time-consuming mistakes that an engineer may commit in carrying out complex and iterative projects that must follow strict and copious regulations. Our mission is to enable nuclear power by putting a revolutionary tool in the hands of engineers.

Our vision is to foster the path toward a rightful energy transition.

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Who believes in Us

Nuclear Energy Transition: Chronic Difficulties

Traditionally, the pursuit of economies of scale has led to growth in the power output of individual reactors and, simultaneously, in the complexity of designs. As size increases, not all cost items increase proportionally. In addition, variation in the weight of civil structures and auxiliary systems on the cost balance has always been considered favorable to expansion. However, large reactors have a surface area/volume ratio that makes decay heat removal more challenging, as well as demonstrating according to regulatory requirements that this occurs under every postulated condition without damaging the plant. This results in a complication in all phases of the project: from licensing, and project management to the actual construction and operation of the reactor with a significant time dilation between conception and actual energy production. Over such a long period, there are many risks-organizational and economic-that design companies face:

Changes in legislation
Sudden changes in policy lines
Changing projected needs of utilities or the power grid
Risk of premature shutdown of power plants due to political pressures

The occurrence of even one of these eventualities corresponds to an abrupt slowdown in the licensing process. But why is licensing so time-consuming and delicate? In a nutshell, the complexity and number of reviews, analyses, and documents to be submitted to regulatory bodies for evaluation of the design as well as the location of the facility requires a lot of skilled manpower, from both sides of the process. Asynchronous communication through static documents, whether paper or digital, requires a lot of material to be updated manually at each stage of the project. And this leaves even less room for potential changes that may be needed during construction. In addition, intuitively, the larger the reactor, the greater the risks in terms of time and economic resources involved. Based on these considerations, more and more companies are becoming interested in SMRs, both among designers and users. The benefits of this choice are self-evident:

Reduction in the time required for the licensing process due to simplification of facilities
Reduction in construction time
Reduction in investment size for the benefit of finance ability
New financing mechanisms (finished the first module you can start selling energy to finance subsequent modules)
Reduction of economic and time loss in case of failure to pass licensing procedures

Shortly, the reduction in reactor size will allow distribution to many more sites than large centralized plants. Thus, the importance and number of site licenses and environmental impact analysis will grow. Speed and efficiency in meeting bureaucratic requirements will be needed to effectively attack the market. Nonetheless, because few reactors have been deployed in recent years, the impacts of the resulting phenomenon of the reduction of the skilled workforce due to the retirement of the generation that built and fired the reactors still in operation today should not be underestimated.

The Software

With today’s digital tools, we can build an integrated platform to create, manage, modify, and share all the documentation required during the licensing phase of a reactor project, construction site, and environmental impact analysis. By training Artificial Intelligence on regulatory databases and previously approved licenses, it will be possible to evaluate components and systems of the project, and then assist in generating the final documents to be submitted to the competent authorities. By developing standardized tools and formats for data and information exchange, a single platform can be shared with the regulatory authority, ensuring transparency and traceability of all communications, project changes, and updates to engineering, safety, and other analyses.

Reducing the risk and financial commitment required during the licensing phase is the primary service we offer our partners, with whom we share the ambition to make the energy we use every day safe, accessible, environmentally friendly, and affordable.