SRPA Impulse will deliver three air defense systems with the national calculation complex ImCore. Development for Westinghouse fuel is also interested in the West
14.08.2023
SRPA Impulse will supply a set of technical means and software for the modification of the upper level of the internal reactor control system (ISRC) of power unit No. 1 of the South Ukrainian NPP. The corresponding agreement was concluded with SE NNEGC Energoatom on August 3, 2023. The term of the contract is until October 30, 2025, and the delivery date is until February 29 of the following year.
It is not specified in the contract, but apparently it is about the modernization of the air defense system, including for the use of Westinghouse fuel - it will be integrated with the Beacon software for neutron-physics calculations, the developer of which is the Westinghouse company.
In addition, the contract does not indicate whether the updated SVRK-M2 internal reactor control system will be delivered to the South Ukrainian NPP, which includes the national calculation complex of neutron-physical and thermo-hydraulic parameters of the active zone and the ImCore reactor installation. At the same time, SRPA Impulse reported last week that for 2024, projects are planned for the supply and commissioning of similar internal reactor control system SVRK-M2 at power units No. 4 of RNPP, No. 1 SUNPP, No. 2 KhNPP.
This year, power unit No. 3 of the RNPP became a pilot unit for the implementation of similar internal reactor control system SVRK-M2. At the end of May, SRPA Impulse reported that in May - July 2023, two projects of implementing the similar internal reactor control system SVRK-M2 with the national calculation complex "ImCore" are being implemented in parallel: at power unit #3 of the Rivne NPP and at power unit #3 of the South Ukrainian NPP. The other day, the company informed that both similar internal reactor control system SVRKs have already been put into operation.
SRPA Impulse also notes that the full-scale new-generation self-defense control systems implemented at Ukrainian nuclear power plants have already aroused considerable interest among Eastern European operators of nuclear power plants with VVER reactors in view of the active acceleration of similar programs to replace russian fuel with Westinghouse fuel in EU countries.