Honeywell's FAAST is the first aspiration detection system to be approved by one of Europe's leading nuclear power plant (NPP) operators for installation in their facilities' most demanding locations, the reactor building.

Understandably, equipment installed in enterprise-critical locations in NPPs has to conform to extremely stringent specifications, requirements which have recently been significantly tightened in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. For the fire detection system, fast response and approaching 100% immunity to false alarms are the most critical operational requirements. Taking a single reactor off line for a day can cost upwards of