The manipulator which was produced and supplied for one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world is already being tested on-site

The manipulator is designed for plugging of the leaking heat exchanging tubes in WWER steam generators. Whole process is remotely controlled by operators from special control container. The equipment was tested in a new Technical Centre for Non-destructive Inspections in Rivne NPP.

“I am grateful to the colleagues from Rivne nuclear power plant for opportunity to test the system at their site, it is a significant help for whole project” praised the occasion Adrian Kovalyk, Member of Board of Directors and Director of Division for Diagnostics of the Nuclear Power Plants in VUJE. Realizing the achievements so far, he is looking forward for further cooperation with the Ukrainian partner NAEK Energoatom.

The testing itself was preceded by special theoretical and practical training for the operation and maintenance of the system technology in Slovakia earlier this year.

Alexander Solovyov, a Ukrainian partner`s representative, commented during the process of testing that as soon as the tests are accomplished, the device will be ready for deployment in any nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Apart from the manipulator for Ukraine, the company VUJE has developed and supplied a similar type of manipulator to the nuclear power plants in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and in Slovakia as well.

The manipulator for plugging of the steamgenerator heat exchanging tubes, which we produced and delivered to Ukraine, is already being tested on site. Photo: PAEC Representatives of Ukrainian nuclear power plants and VUJE, a. s., in the new technical center of non-destructive inspections of the Rivne NPP. For VUJE, the director of the division and member of the board Adrian Kovalyk, as well as the chief designer Tomáš Lehuta (on the title picture) and the head of electrical department Peter Urban were in Ukraine.

Chief designer of the VUJE, a.s., division for diagnostics Tomáš Lehuta (left).

Adrian Kovalyk, Member of Board of Directors and Director of Division for Diagnostics of the Nuclear Power Plants in VUJE.

Olexander Solovjov, head of the department of automated control systems of NPP Rivne with the head of electrical department VUJE, a. s., Peter Urban (right).Photo: PAEC