PING : A new approach for nuclear fuel cycle instrumentation

We introduce here a new concept of nuclear instrumentation system. We have developed a new and flexible system for nuclear measurement called PING. PING stands for New Generation Instrument Platform. This new measurement system could be able to do measurements in active neutron condition, especially time stamping, as well as photon gamma spectrometry. This development is done in order to optimize Nuclear Process Control systems. In fact numbers of used instrumentations are specific and most of them are no longer supplied by any firm. Then the main idea that conducts this project development is to concentrate all hardware requirements inside one device. Only the software embedded inside the FPGA is considered as the real measurement part of the device. Any hardware upgrading should not modify measurement performances. Thus which is durable is the software.