Fusion hardware engineering
Vacuum vessels, chambers, ports, plasma-facing components, liquid-metal cooling, and structural response to pulsed electromagnetic loads.
Fusion engineering services and ANSYS FEA
Hardware-ready analysis for extreme environments
Brantley Fusion Systems delivers structural and thermal engineering for fusion devices and advanced nuclear systems: ANSYS-driven FEA, design basis development, and embedded engineering support when programs need more than a report.
What we deliver
Fusion and nuclear engineering services first. Staff augmentation when you need it.
We provide design and analysis for fusion and nuclear hardware. When a program needs more capacity, we embed engineers with your team.
Industry-leading ANSYS FEA
Static and transient structural and thermal analysis in ANSYS, coupled thermal-structural work, nonlinear materials, and design verification under demanding loads.
Design basis & verification
Design criteria, code-of-record strategy, requirements traceability, independent design review, and seismic demand framing for high-consequence systems.
Capability explorer
Open the layers behind the headline services
Select a domain for the detail fusion and nuclear program leads usually ask for next.
Fusion hardware design
Practical design support for vacuum and chamber systems, plasma-facing hardware, liquid-metal interfaces, bolted flanges and nozzles, and seismic qualification of test stands and support frames.
vacuum vessels
PFC thermal/structural
liquid metal
pulsed EM loads
Finite element analysis
ANSYS Mechanical, Workbench, and MAPDL with APDL scripting and Python automation. Coupled thermal-structural analysis, nonlinear plasticity, modal response, mesh convergence, and singularity treatment on large models.
transient thermal
nonlinear materials
strain-based methods
Design basis, codes & review
Fusion and advanced nuclear design basis work, including ASME III Division 4 code-of-record strategy and design-by-analysis where the code is silent. Requirements traceability, independent verification, and licensing pathway framing across NRC Parts 50, 52, and 53, proposed future Part frameworks, and DOE authorization contexts.
ASME III Div. 4
ASME VIII Div. 2
ACI 349 / 359
ASCE 4 / 43
AISC N690
Embedded engineering support
When a program needs more than a deliverable package, BFS provides structural, mechanical, civil, and thermal engineering support embedded with the team: analysis ownership, design review, and execution follow-through.
structural
mechanical
civil
thermal
Structural, mechanical, civil, and thermal disciplines. Pulsed electromagnetic loads are addressed as structural and thermal problem statements.
Selected experience
Fusion programs and nuclear structural depth
Selected experience includes work performed in prior engineering roles, from fusion hardware to safety-related nuclear structures.
Tri Alpha Energy / TAE · Copernicus
Structural design basis and ASME III Division 4 code of record; core structure analysis and reactor support systems; Python-driven APDL workflows for iterative thermal-mechanical verification.
Private fusion developer
Nonlinear transient thermal-mechanical analysis for first-of-a-kind components, including run-to-failure prediction within 5% of test, liquid-metal PFC cooling, and vacuum boundary strain-based acceptance work.
Nuclear fleet & large projects
Westinghouse AP1000 methods, Duke Energy nuclear structural work including Crystal River, TVA Watts Bar Unit 2, NuScale SMR crane verification under ASME NOG-1, and post-Fukushima FLEX facilities including Prairie Island and Turkey Point.
Discuss your project
Email Jake to talk through fusion hardware, FEA scope, design basis needs, or embedded engineering support.
jake@brantleyfusionsystems.com