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12 September 2006 -- Elena Poptodorova, Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States, visited Westinghouse Electric Co. headquarters September 8 to meet with company executives and view a demonstration of the newest Westinghouse nuclear power plant control room technology, the same technology the company hopes to provide for the Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems for the Belene Nuclear Power Plant completion project.
At Westinghouse, the Ambassador heard presentations on the Westinghouse I&C business and Westinghouse's participation in the Bulgarian energy sector. Discussions focused on the company's successful projects at Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) Units 5 & 6 and Westinghouse's desire to participate in the Belene Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) completion project as the I&C supplier.
The Westinghouse I&C project with Kozloduy Units 5 & 6 is a first-of-a-kind large scale I&C modernization project for a VVER type plant. Westinghouse is replacing the Russian I&C systems at KNPP Units 5 & 6 with state-of-the-art digital control systems, proven technology that improves system performance, reliability and safety, in compliance with U.S. and Western European standards.
Westinghouse has implemented Computer Information Systems, Turbine Control Systems, Radiation Monitoring Systems and Primary Control Systems at KNPP. Implementation of Secondary Control Systems is currently in progress. Earlier this month, KNPP awarded Westinghouse a new contract to provide Primary Side Chemistry Monitoring Systems for KNPP Units 5 & 6. Westinghouse will provide an on-line chemistry analysis system to replace manual sample collection and laboratory analysis of 16 primary chemistry parameters. The chemistry system will provide information to the Kozloduy plant computer system for display in the control room and at other engineering work stations.
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