Rosatom upgrades Belarusian nuclear power plant equipment simulator

MINSK, 3 August (BelTA) – Specialists of Rusatom Automated Control Systems (RASU, part of the Russian state nuclear industry corporation Rosatom) have finished a set of operations to upgrade a full-scale equipment simulator of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, RASU's press service told BelTA.

The work included installation, tuning, and the necessary testing of the Portal software suite. It is special software for automating control of distributed technological systems. The software suite collects data from remote installations in real time. The data is processed, analyzed, and displayed to the operator.

The press service noted that the equipment simulator had to be modernized because it has been four years since the simulator was commissioned. Changes and improvements have been introduced to the software of top-tier systems since then in the course of startup and commissioning, pilot operation, and pilot commercial operation. Since the full-scale equipment simulator replicates functions of the nuclear power plant's first unit's control room, its software needs to be updated in a timely manner as systems of power-generating units get modernized.

With the set of operations completed, the simulator's software fully matches the software installed in top-tier systems of the Belarusian nuclear power plant's first unit. It is the necessary condition for maintaining and improving qualifications of the Belarusian nuclear power plant personnel, said Andrei Belaits, project supervisor with the Belarusian nuclear power plant project office at RASU.