We delivered more KCF systems to French nuclear power plants

For the French company Framatome, ZAT is supplying 58 control system cabinets for 20 nuclear power plant units, each with an output of 1,300 MW. 

"Currently, we have delivered two more cabinets of the KCF diagnostic and information system to the Belleville nuclear power plant for Unit 1. FAT tests were performed in our company in November 2019, and at the end of the year French specialists installed system and application software in the cabinets and performed interconnection tests," says Ivo Tichý, Director of the Power Engineering Division and member of the ZAT Board of Directors. At the same time as the FAT and interconnection tests, the quality of the manufactured KCF cabinets was also checked.

KCF systems monitor boric acid concentration, monitor voltage distribution in a nuclear power plant or archive process data for maintenance.

The delivery of KCF cabinets is part of a major refurbishment of control systems and modernisation of nuclear power plants in France. The operator is the power company EDF. Once the refurbishment is complete, KCF systems will provide diagnostic and information functions at twenty nuclear units in eight nuclear power plants. The project has been underway since 2012 with a completion date of 2024.

ZAT supplies control and management systems for large and small nuclear reactors and related nuclear technologies, including other services. ZAT safety and hazard control systems are deployed at nuclear power plants in seven countries in Europe and Asia. In the nuclear power sector, the company currently has orders in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland and Armenia in addition to France.