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UK consortium developing wireless nuclear control system
Engineering and R&D services company Altran announced on 15 January that it is leading a consortium of the University of Bristol and UK-based nuclear technology development company...
Contract signed for Kudankulam monitoring and control systems
Russia’s Specialised Scientific Research Institute for Instrumentation Engineering (JSC SNIIP), has signed a contract for the manufacture of equipment, software and hardware for...
I&C supplier selected for Rooppur
Deal agreed for automated process control system for Bangladesh NPP
Areva installs load following system at Gösgen
Areva NP has installed a system at Switzerland’s Gösgen nuclear plant to automatically adjust the plant's electrical output according to the needs of the grid operator.
Areva to upgrade I&C at Calvert Cliffs
Areva NP has been contracted to upgrade instrumentation and control systems at Calvert Cliffs 1&2 in Lusby, Maryland. The reactors, operated by US utility Exelon are 920MW...
Areva NP installs monitoring system at Trillo
France’s Areva has completed the replacement of the reactor pressure vessel level monitoring system at Spain’s Trillo nuclear plant, which is operated by Centrales...
Westinghouse provides monitoring systems to Ukraine’s Zaporozhye NPP
Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom to supply monitoring instrumentation systems for four units at the Zaporozhye NPP,...
Areva wins contract for Paks I&C update
CGN and UK Ultra Electronics to develop I&C systems
China General Nuclear (CGN) and Ultra Electronics of the UK signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 28 February to enhance their cooperation in the development of...
Rolls-Royce and Areva NP upgrade French reactors I&C
Rolls-Royce and Areva NP have installed and commissioned the latest digital safety I&C technologies on to the first two reactors at the Cattenom and Paluel nuclear plants in France,...
Areva supplies I&C systems for Russia’s Novovoronezh II
France’s Areva NP has supplied the safety instrumentation and control system (I&C) for unit 1 of Russia’s Novovoronezh II NPP (also known as Novovoronezh unit 6), which is...
India’s Kudankulam NPP moves ahead but other import plans in limbo
Rusatom Automated Control Systems (Rasu), a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, will be the main designer and supplier of the instrumentation and control...
New control and protection system for Ukraine’s Zaporozhe-6
The Czech company Skoda JS, part of the Russian group OMZ, has manufactured a batch of upgraded drives of control and protection system (CPS) rods for unit 6 of Ukraine’s Zaporozhe...
Chinese digital I&C system passes IAEA review
At a press conference on 13 July, China General Nuclear (CGN) spokesman Huang Xiaofei announced that the FirmSys digital I&C system developed by its Beijing CTEC System Engineering Co...
Rolls-Royce to design safety systems for Hanhikivi NPP
Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear, based in France, has been contracted to design the first phase of instrumentation and control (I&C) systems for the Hanhikivi-1 NPP, which is being built...
More equipment shipped to Belarus NPP
The components of the automated process control system (APCS) for unit 1 of Belarus NPP has been delivered to the NPP by the All Russian Scientific & Research Institute for Nuclear...
Digital control system sent to China’s HTR-PM reactor
The digital control system for China's demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled - pebble bed module (HTR-PM) reactor successfully passed factory acceptance tests and will now be sent...
Long-lived incore instrumentation to be tested in Korea
Nuclear instrumentation specialist, Thermocoax, has been awarded a contract to supply long-lived in-core instrumentation assemblies for a demonstration project in Korea.
AREVA consortium wins incore instrumentation order in China
A joint venture between AREVA of France and the China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute has signed an agreement to supply incore instrumentation for Yangjiang 5&6 and...
