The IAEA Regional Workshop held on October 5-6, 2020, provided a forum for Eastern European nuclear power plant operators to discuss and share aspects and experiences concerning the lifetime and performance management of instrumentation, control systems and equipment at nuclear power plants. The workshop was originally planned for Kurchatov, Kazakhstan, but was replaced with a […]
An extension to the RadICS field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) platform was approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on June 23, 2020. The extension adds three new input modules to extend platform flexibility: Wide Range Analog Inputs Module, Thermocouple Inputs Module, and Resistance Temperature Detector Inputs Module. Mark […]
SunPort CEO Mark Burzynski attended the Technical Workshop on Current Status and Difficulties of I&C Modernization, organized by the Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing (CORDEL) Working Group of the World Nuclear Association (WNA) in Erlangen, Germany on October 29-31, 2019. The workshop served as an international forum for sharing and discussing the current […]
The IAEA Technical Meeting provided an international forum for sharing experiences and lessons learned in coping with major challenges associated with nuclear power plant instrumentation and control (I&C) systems, as well as providing I&C-based support for plant performance improvement; and to assist the IAEA in planning future activities on these topics. Participants from 26 countries […]
SunPort attended the American Nuclear Society 2019 Utility Working Conference and Technology Expo on August 4-7, 2019. The conference is an annual meeting of the nuclear industry that consistently generates strong, practical recommendations designed to address the industry’s most pressing needs. The focus of the 2019 conference was to analyze cost drivers common to all […]
The RadICS field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) platform was approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on July 31, 2019. Mark Burzynski, CEO of SunPort SA, stated that “the NRC approval is a huge milestone for RadICS technology and the SunPort team is very proud to have been a […]
SunPort attended the Special International Nuclear Regulatory Inspection Workshop on “Digital Instrumentation & Control (DI&C)”, hosted by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on June 9-13, 2019. The workshop was conducted to provide a forum for the exchange of information on regulatory inspection activities in the field of DI&C. Participants had the […]
SunPort attended the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting of the Technical Working Group on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control (TWG-NPPIC) in Vienna, Austria on May 15-17, 2019. The TWG-NPPIC is a group of experts from IAEA Member States that was established to provide advice to the IAEA and support programme implementation, reflecting a […]
SunPort attended the Halden Project Expert Workshop on “International Assessment of Safety Assurance Approaches,” hosted by the Institute for Energy Technology in Rockville, Maryland on March 14-15, 2019. The workshop was conducted as part of the continuing research effort related to digital I&C safety demonstration. Panel 1, Organization of “Safety Assurance” Information, discussed how the […]