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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...
US regulator certifies Rolls-Royce digital I&C system
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified Rolls-Royce's Spinline digital instrumentation and control (I&C) platform for use in US nuclear power plants.
GE-Hitachi delivers spent fuel pool gauges to Japanese customers
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy has announced that it is working with several utility customers in Japan to deliver spent fuel pool level monitors (SFPLM), a critical tool to help...
ORTEC integrates cryostat into detector
AMETEK Advanced Measurement Technology has introduced ICS™, an Integrated Cryocooling System that supports premium detector resolution without the use of liquid nitrogen. Cryostats...
Westinghouse, SNPAS sign I&C agreements
Westinghouse and China's State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company (SNPAS) have signed two cooperation agreements related to instrumentation and control (I&C) systems.
Servelec Controls wins work at Heysham and Torness
UK-based technology company Servelec Controls has been chosen to design, implement and commission new drive systems at EDF Energy's Torness and Heysham nuclear power plants.
Regulator approves I&C for Olkiluoto 3
Finland’s nuclear safety and radiation authority has approved the EPR Teleperm XS digital instrumentation and control system. The approval of the overall system design for utility...
Testing starts on OL3 instrumentation and control
AREVA has started testing of the digital Instrumentation & Control (I&C) system for the Olkiluoto 3 EPR at its facility in Erlangen, Germany. Testing is expected to continue until...
