Sonardyne Upgrades Acoustic Monitors for Nuclear Ships

摘要

Sonardyne International Ltd has completed the latest stage of a program to upgrade a unique monitoring system that it installed aboard nuclear fuel transport ships over 20 years ago. The system was developed in 1985 for British Nuclear Fuels (now International Nuclear Services Ltd) to provide an emergency relocation and remote monitoring ability if one of its ships should sink. The systems have been in continuous operation since they were installed, but thankfully, they have never been needed. The new systems being installed across the fleet, incorporate the latest Sonardyne Wideband technology which provides a superior acoustic link. BNFL originally commissioned Sonardyne to design an acoustic system that would enable a sunken ship to be relocated from a safe distance and for the condition of its radioactive cargo to be monitored before any salvage attempt is made. Sonardyne supplied each ship with four custom-engineered acoustic transponder modems interfaced to two Data Acquisition Units (DAUs).