Saudi International Conference On Nuclear Power Engineering (SCOPE)

The KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL) has been serving the engineering community of Saudi Arabia for many years. This paper aims to cover a few selected highlights of KSL's educational, training, and consulting services. This outreach program has two streams: modelling & simulation and deep learning for engineers. Since 2017, KSL has conducted nine training workshops in collaboration with...

The global electricity demand, volatile fossil fuel prices, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions push power producers towards clean energy sources, including nuclear energy. Civil nuclear power generation is seen as a reliable contestant in the clean energy race, with about 437 nuclear power plants currently operating worldwide. This paper discusses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's...

The availability of refined and efficient energy resources has played a decisive role in the advancement of societies, especially since the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century. In the twenty-first century, the international energy scenario is experiencing a profound transition in terms of energy resources and their utilisation. The energy transition is in response to the challenges...

The Digital Twin (DT) is the most advanced paradigm to
create a virtual representation of a real world multi-physical system
for the sake of designing, monitoring, and supporting the decision
making throughout its whole lifecycle. Therefore, DT requires a
flexible ecosystem made of a variety of engineering tools and services
that need to be highly interoperable and enable...

Energy Transition acceleration coupled to geopolitical stakes has translated into a major worldwide attention for nuclear sector mainly thanks to its capacity to produce stable electricity in a souverain way. Hence, in order to keep up with the high demand of nuclear power plants, it is fundamental to have an efficient project management in order to successfully deliver nuclear projects while...

Fossil-based fuels have been powering our economies for years. They account for about 80% of the global energy mix. However, despite their dominance, fossil fuels are finite, and has negative impacts of the environment and climate-related changes. Saudi Arabia under Vision 2030 sees this issue and build their Vision to reduce the indecency on oil and achieve net zero emission by introducing...

Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) is a powerful tool that can be used to identify and assess the risks associated with nuclear power plants (NPPs). Nevertheless, PSA is a complex and data-intensive process, and it requires a significant level of human expertise to be conducted reliably. As a result, there is a need to build a human capacity for PSA in order to ensure that it is used...