OREANDA-NEWS. December 7, 2010. JSC “SITRONICS” (LSE:SITR), the leading supplier of solutions in the field of telecommunications, information technology and microelectronics in Russia and CIS countries, informs that the subsidiary company SITRONICS Information Technologies has completed the IT-infrastructure modernization within the Project of Chernobyl Nuclear Plant withdrawal from service implemented by a German company Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN) in cooperation with Ernst & Young.

Within the framework of the Project at Specialized State Enterprise “Chernobyl Nuclear Plant” (Chernobyl NPP), a joint working group has designed and implemented a failure-resistant platform for the information system required for plant withdrawal from service. The system will register the engineering and radiation status of the buildings, constructions and equipment, control radioactive waste handling, and ensure resource and materials management at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.

“Due to the fact that the plant withdrawal from service will take more that 50 years, it is necessary to collect and store large volumes of information on every stage of this major project. Global experience shows that an optimal tool for solving problems of this kind is an electronic database“, - noted Valery Seida, Chernobyl NPP Project Manager, Deputy General Director of SSE “Chernobyl Nuclear Plant” . – Full data on every stage of the Chernobyl NPP power units life cycle will allow to take into consideration all technological, economic and social aspects of the plant withdrawal from service”.

“Our company is experienced in implementing similar projects in Germany, Lithuania and Bulgaria. We have engaged SITRONICS Information Technologies, one of the most qualified system integration market players in Russia and Ukraine, in the work on Chernobyl Nuclear Plant“ – says Karsten Frank, Project Manager from Energiewerke Nord GmbH.

“The modernized IT-infrastructure is based on failure-resistant platform meeting reliability and failure-resistance requirements of the European Commission specialists and Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. The implemented solution will enhance reliability of the information support of Chernobyl NPP withdrawal from service. The important advantage of the system is its high computational capability allowing to process large volumes of information, ensuring continuous access to data, its background back-up and online restoration”- noted Vladimir Yasinsky, President of SITRONICS Information Technologies.

The implemented solution is based on blade-architecture. The basis of the computational subsystem are HP ProLiant BL460G6 servers, integrated into the data transmission network and storage network by corresponding double switchover unit chassis HP Blade System c3000. The created hardware and software system has a high level of failure-resistance towards aliquant equipment failures and good scalability. Following the pilot development, the IT-infrastructure service maintenance agreement has been signed with SITRONICS Information Technologies for a period of 5 years.