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Another significant innovation of the nuclear projects has been their resort to computerised planning and monitoring. The relocation of a pipe, or even of a supporting bracket, within a nuclear power station can have a significant impact on adjacent installations, and such difficulties abounded during the construction in France and Finland of the precursors of the British nuclear power stations. When a computerised model is available, the consequences of any relocation are represented in the model in advance of any implementation, and the computerised models are the digital twins of the material structures to which they will eventually correspond.