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Nuclear Instrumentation & Control
Today's nuclear control systems and software developers must increase system availability and extend plant lifetime while avoiding abnormal conditions and ensuring plant safety. Systems and software must also meet stringent certification requirements in a cost effective, timely manner. This is a complicated task that requires the correct tools.
Production-Proven International Success
Esterel Technologies provides production-proven, model-based development solutions for critical systems and software engineers developing key nuclear I&C applications that reduce cost, risk, and time-to-certification. Esterel Technologies' industry leading products have been certified by TÜV SÜD for IEC 61508 and comply with IEC 60880 and related nuclear safety regulations.
Our nuclear customers include AREVA NP, BARC, IGCAR Research, KARERI, KOPEC, NPCIL, NPIC, and VNIIA.
SCADE Solution Benefits
- Improves communication among system/software teams, customers, suppliers, and certification authorities
- Improves long-term maintainability of applications
- Enables process agility
- Ensures documentation quality and accuracy
- Enables early detection of design flaws
- Reduces development and verification costs
- Ensures code quality and safety
- Reduces risk, time, and cost by supporting nuclear standards compliance and certification
Nuclear applications developed using the SCADE product family include:
- Reactor Protection Systems
- Reactor limitation system
- Trip processing and Emergency shutdown
- Safety actuation
- Nuclear Instrumentation & Display Systems
- Reactor monitoring displays
- Power measurement system
- Neutron detectors
- Pressurizer heating controllers
- Other Safety Systems
- Safety valve control system
- Rod control systems
- Diesel sequencing systems
- Rod position instrumentation systems
Nuclear Programs Include:
- Abu Dhabi
- KEPCO
- Armenia
- METSAMOR
- Belgium
- TIHANGE 1
- China
- QINSHAN II 1,2
- Czech Republic
- DUKOVANY 1,2,3,4
- France
- BELLEVILLE 1,2
- BUGEY
- CATTENOM 1,2,3,4
- CHOOZ B1,B2
- CIVAUX 1,2
- FLAMANVILLE 1,2
- FESSENHEIM 1,2
- GOLFECH 1,2
- NOGENT 1,2
- OSIRIS (Research Plant)
- PALUEL 1,2,3,4
- PENLY 1,2
- ST ALBAN 1,2
- India
- IGCAR
- NPCIL
- BARC
- Lithuania
- IGNALINA 1,2


