Nuclear supplier upgrades controls increasing efficiency, production: distributed control system migration kept prior monitors and other elements, in smooth transition at the world's largest heavy-water plant.(INSIDE PROCESS)

From: Control Engineering | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Ferro, Edgardo | Copyright information

What to keep and what to replace were among decisions made during a major control system upgrade at a large supplier to the nuclear-power industry.

Empresa Neuquina de Servicios de Ingenieria S.E. (ENSI) operates the industrial heavy-water plant--owned by the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission--selling 200 metric-tons/year of reactor-degree virgin heavy water, a strategic product for natural-uranium-fueled nuclear-power plants. Built in 1989, at Arroyito, Neuque...

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