Photo: Ruselectronics
Ruselectronics holding has first presented an updated digital telecomplex highly resistant to radiation at the Army-2024. The equipment is designed for reactor core process monitoring. This is necessary to maintain the performance of a key component of a nuclear power plant and to prevent accidents.
The upgraded video surveillance system has been developed by Television Scientific Research Institute included in Ruselectronics. It is used for effective examination of reactor vessels and internals, fuel assembly removal and installation control, and for surveillance over refueling operations and processes in the reactor and spent fuel storage pool.
The system contains a radiation-resistant camera that can be used in air and water at prompt gamma radiation up to 2 mrad/hour or at cumulative gamma radiation up to 200 mrad. A proprietary lens is designed to produce color and monochrome images with a resolution of at least 1000 television lines at an ambient temperature up to 120°C.
“Lens glass, that gets dark with time when exposed to gamma radiation, is the most vulnerable component of such cameras. The new optics with high radiation resistance will extend the life by a factor of 1.5 compared with equivalents. At this point, we have proceeded to the first radiation resistance test phase,” stated Aleksey Nikitin, General Director of Television Scientific Research Institute.
