Ultra Electronics supports the nuclear industry by supplying new safety critical systems and by carrying out sustainment of existing technology using innovative techniques.

Aging analogue systems pose significant risks to plant viability, from increased operating costs to reduced reliability. Reactor operators are evaluating the benefits of Control & Instrumentation (C&I) modernisation programmes to reduce plant costs while improving plant performance. In addition, a growing number of plants are faced with obsolete components impacting a wide variety of systems.
 
Plant operators need C&I system updates that functionally replace the existing system or parts of it and yet permit compatibility with future business and plant improvement strategy. Changes must minimise the impact on field wiring, on plant procedures and on the safety case. Ultra Electronics has experience in providing complex design analysis to support legislation, the stipulated safety requirements and for High Integrity Systems, the Safety Case.
 
Most designs are subject to level of analysis to determine system availability and identify critical items. Ultra has experience of failure rate prediction and repair time analysis on complex systems, leading to the production of availability models predicting system availability and down-time.

Ultra Electronics provides updates for safety critical control, protection and monitoring systems in operational nuclear power plants. Updates for safety-related systems meet, as a minimum, the current level of functionality whilst having features that improve plant performance and address the requirements of modern industry standards.

 

 

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