Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has completed the delivery and installation of the full automated process control system (APCS) for the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, marking another milestone in Bangladesh’s first nuclear power project.
The first unit is currently in the start-up phase, according to project officials.
The system was supplied by Rosatom Automated Control Systems (RASU), the company’s automation and electrical engineering division. The delivery included 22 subsystems for automated process control and radiation monitoring for Unit 1, which is equipped with a VVER-1200 reactor.
The systems are designed to monitor equipment performance, electricity generation and technological processes during both the commissioning and operational stages of the unit.
Gleb Murashov, managing director of the APCS division at RASU, said all automated process control equipment for the first power unit had now been delivered and commissioned at the construction site.
“We have introduced several improvements as part of the project,” he said. “For example, the automated radiation monitoring systems have been implemented in a compact bench-type design for the first time in this type of project.”
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is being built with Russian technology and will comprise two VVER-1200 reactors with a combined generation capacity of 2,400 megawatts.
The Generation III+ reactor design complies with international safety standards and is already in operation at six units in Russia and Belarus. Similar Russian-built reactors are also under construction in Egypt, Hungary, Turkey and China.