Automated Monitoring System – a priority for Russian Uranium Enrichment Electrochemical Plant Zelenogorsk
In 2010 the first stage of the Automated Measuring System for Industrial and Ecological Monitoring (AMSIEM) of JSC" Production Association "Electro-chemical Plant", Zelenogorsk, Russia has been carried out. As a company of the nuclear fuel cycle belonging to the Russian TVEL concern the new ecological monitoring system controls radiation as well as chemical and meteorological
parameters. The aim is to survey both the working areas of the plant as well as monitoring within the perimeter of the plant. At the official start 27 measuring channels on 22 stationary posts at key locations inside the plant have been launched. Eventually the AMSIEM will control the ecological situation around the plant with more than 60 stationary posts. All the data are collected, archived, processed, and visualized for convenience of the end users and shared with the local emergency ministry.
On the basis of the proprietary SkyLINK radio technology for wide-area monitoring developed by Saphymo, Germany this system basis has proven its reliable performance which includes different subsystems. The SkyLINK transmitters on stationary posts are unique in many ways, most notably in power (just 10 mW, enough to send data up to 100 km). The complete system integrates the local subsystems into a more powerful united AMSIEM with one analytical center. One important subsystem of the AMSIEM is the control of the chemical situation. It allows measure the concentration of toxic gases, such as NH3, HF, SO2, and NO2. All sensors
have been integrated via Universal Telemetry Platform with battery back-up into the surveillance system.
Another AMSIEM subsystem called ‘Automated System for Radiation Situation Control’ consists of 13 autonomously operating GammaTRACER radio probes which are used as stationary posts for the γ-dose rate surveillance along with hand-held radio dose rate meter MiniTRACE. The system has been upgraded since May 2012. In 2013 a car-based Mobile Complex of Emergency
Response (MCER) based on the mobile ShortLINK radio system has been integrated into the AMSIEM comprising also radiation and mobile chemical sensors. This mobile complex can be used for the needs of the whole region, covering up to 5 km transmission distance.
The AMSIEM can easily be expanded. It can integrate also new types of measuring instruments as the new spectrometric SpectroTRACER probe for air, soil and water which uses the ShortLINK or SkyLINK channel as a back-up, principally operating via LAN, WIFI, GPRS or also satellite. Integration of air particulate monitors, iodine and others demonstrate the system performance.
The different ecological initiatives of the Electrochemical Plant Zelenogorsk have been presented to ROSATOM in September 2013. They have a model character for other potentially dangerous objects in the Krasnoyarsk Region and will become part of the Regional AMSIEM (RAMSIEM). Installation and maintenance is performed together with the technical specialists of Soyuzatompribor, Moscow.
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