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# Ketryx for Nuclear Energy

## Digital I&C modernization, without regulatory risk.

Ketryx connects to your existing development tools to automate NRC-compliant documentation, create real-time traceability, and accelerate digital I&C modernization — without disrupting your workflows.

30 minutes · No commitment · Tailored to your stack and standards

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## The Reality

### Digital I&C modernization is stalled by compliance overhead.

- Manual traceability is the primary bottleneck.
- NRC compliance demands full traceability across requirements, design, code, and tests. Quality teams spend excessive time copying data between Word, Excel, and legacy ALM systems to prepare for audits and inspections.

- Cross-system traceability gaps slow everything down.
- Tracing requirements in DOORS to code in Git, then to tests and validation results, is almost entirely manual. When a requirement changes, identifying every downstream impact across safety-related systems can take weeks.

- One change cascades through the entire safety architecture.
- Any change to safety-related software triggers a multi-week manual effort to assess downstream impacts across interconnected systems, safety analyses, and licensing documentation. It is the single biggest bottleneck in digital I&C modernization.

## How Ketryx Works

### One platform that connects compliance to development.

#### NRC-compliant documentation, generated automatically.

As your engineers write requirements in Jira, push code to GitHub, and run tests, Ketryx generates the complete documentation package — Software Requirements Specification, traceability matrices, test result linkage — in real time. Your compliance record builds itself while engineers stay in the tools they already use.

#### Real-time cross-system traceability.

Requirements, design, code, test cases, and test results are connected across every tool in your stack — Jira, Git, TestRail, and more. Ketryx maintains the trace chain automatically, so when the NRC schedules an inspection, you're already audit-ready.

#### AI-powered change impact analysis.

When a system requirement changes, Ketryx’s AI maps the potential impact across every layer of your safety architecture, including affected requirements, design decisions, test cases, and licensing documentation. Every AI generated impact assessment is reviewable and approvable by your engineering and quality team before it becomes part of the compliance record. Turn multi-week manual analysis into hours, with full human oversight at every step.

## Results

### Built for the most regulated industry in the world. Now available for Nuclear.

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Reduction in manual trace matrix maintenance | 0% |
| Audit-ready, 100% of the time | 0% |
| Faster documentation cycles | 0x |
| Time-to-value | Hours |

### Connects to the tools your I&C team already uses.

Ketryx overlays your existing development and compliance tools — no rip-and-replace. Your team keeps working where they work.

**Compliance Depth**  
## Built for IEC 60880, NQA-1, and 10 CFR 50.

| Standard | What It Requires | How Ketryx Helps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **IEC 60880** | Software lifecycle documentation for safety-critical (Category A) I&C systems, full traceability, independent V&V, configuration management | Automated lifecycle data generation aligned to IEC 60880 Category A requirements, real-time bidirectional traceability matrices, and test evidence linked to safety objectives — with independent V&V documentation support for the highest safety classification. |
| **IEC 62138** | Software requirements for lower-safety (Category B/C) I&C systems, scaled documentation based on safety classification | Graded approach automation — automatically applies appropriate quality rigor based on IEC 61226 safety classification (Category A, B, C) |
| **10 CFR 50 Appendix B** | Quality assurance program for nuclear power plants, covering all safety-related activities, supplier qualification, audit trails | 10 CFR 50 Appendix B-compliant audit trails, automated SOP enforcement across connected tools, supplier qualification documentation support |
| **IEC 61513** | Overall I&C system architecture for nuclear power plants, system-level requirements, safety assessment integration | System of systems traceability, AI-powered change impact analysis connecting system safety to software requirements |
| **NQA-1** | Quality assurance requirements for nuclear facility applications, including design control, document control, procurement, corrective actions | NQA-1 compliance controls embedded directly into development workflows, automated documentation and evidence collection, real-time compliance dashboards |
| **IEEE 7-4.3.2 / IEEE 1012** | Establishes criteria for digital computers used in safety systems of nuclear power generating stations, including hardware, software, firmware, and interfaces. Defines verification and validation processes across the software lifecycle, including V&V planning, requirements V&V, design V&V, and test V&V | Automated traceability from system requirements through software requirements, design, implementation, and test results — aligned to IEEE 7-4.3.2 lifecycle documentation expectations. V&V evidence generation supporting IEEE 1012 activity documentation, including independent verification audit trails and test coverage reporting |

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Does Ketryx support IEC 60880 and NRC compliance workflows?

### How long does it take to set up?

### What about NQA-1 supplier qualification for the tool itself?

### We're mid-program. Can we adopt Ketryx now?

### Does Ketryx use AI? How does that work for nuclear compliance?

## Your I&C engineers didn't become engineers to maintain traceability spreadsheets.

Every week spent on manual documentation is a week not spent getting your digital systems licensed. Ketryx gives that time back.
