Rolls-Royce French unit wins Chinese nuclear contract

3rd September 2020

By: Rebecca Campbell

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

     

Font size: - +

UK-based global industrial technology group Rolls-Royce has been awarded a multimillion-euro contract to supply Neutron Flux Monitoring Systems to two nuclear reactors being built in China. The contract is from the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and will be executed by Rolls-Royce Instrumentation and Controls (I&C), which is based in Grenoble in France. The exact value of the contract has not been released.

“For more than 25 years, we have been collaborating with CNNC in China,” pointed out Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear France business unit director Stéphane Lessi. “We are delighted to have signed this new contract, which is further proof of the confidence that CNNC places in our I&C technologies and in our people.”

Rolls-Royce will supply complete systems to both the Zhangzhou 1 and Zhangzhou 2 reactors. Both these reactors are Chinese Hualong One (also known as HPR1000) designs. 

The complete systems include ex-core neutron detectors, cables, connectors and the associated neutron detectors, and use Rolls-Royce’s Spinline digital safety I&C safety technology. Spinline is installed on more than 90 nuclear reactors around the world.

“The Neutron Flux Monitoring System is a key system for the safety and availability of nuclear reactors, since it measures the neutron flux of the reactor, and thus continuously and instantly monitors its power, the fluctuations of that power, as well as its axial and radial distribution within the reactor,” explained Rolls-Royce. The systems will be designed, built and tested in Grenoble by Rolls-Royce I&C, and installed and commissioned by CNNC under the guidance of I&C teams from France.

More than 130 of the group’s Neutron Flux Monitoring Systems have been installed or selected for nuclear reactors around the world, including 42 in China. Rolls-Royce I&C employs almost 550 people in Grenoble, and the I&C systems that they produce have been installed on almost 150 reactors around the world, including all the nuclear reactors operating in France.

 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

Comments

The content you are trying to access is only available to subscribers.

If you are already a subscriber, you can Login Here.

If you are not a subscriber, you can subscribe now, by selecting one of the below options.

For more information or assistance, please contact us at subscriptions@creamermedia.co.za.

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION