Core articles that define the By the Protocol approach to nuclear systems, safety culture, technical clarity and documentation-driven understanding.
A natural-draft cooling tower is easy to recognize from a distance. Understanding it is something else. This article follows the reconstruction of a cooling tower beyond its familiar silhouette, toward the internal logic of water distribution, airflow, evaporation, access, and heat rejection.
A documentation-driven reconstruction of a NuScale-style SMR reactor pressure vessel, developed from internal volume and system topology toward upper internals, CRA and ICI penetrations, CRDM housing interfaces, feedwater geometry, and containment vessel constraints.
Human factors engineering is not about blaming operators. It is about designing technical systems, procedures, interfaces, training and organizational conditions around how people actually perceive, decide, communicate and act.
A documentation-driven reconstruction of a NuScale-style 17×17 SMR fuel assembly, developed from HMP/HTP spacer grids toward the complete assembly and compared with a standard Westinghouse 17×17 PWR fuel assembly.
A documentation-driven 3D reconstruction of the HI-STORM 100S dry cask system, focused on confinement, shielding, passive cooling, criticality control and the spatial logic behind spent fuel storage.
Dry storage of spent nuclear fuel is not an improvisation, but a purpose-designed passive safety system. This article explains how confinement, shielding, subcriticality and decay heat removal are maintained through geometry, materials and physical principles.
Nuclear safety does not depend on the perfect functioning of a single component or system. It is built through a safety architecture that anticipates failures, limits their consequences and prevents uncontrolled escalation.
