Providing construction work in the Nuclear Factory project Kudankulam, atommash-aem-technologies, part of the Division of Machinery Building from Russia Atom Energy Corporation Rosatom, has begun to produce nuclear reactors and steam generators for 6 plant units in Tamil Nadu.
Reactor space and steam generation have passed inspections and items on the initial operation of the manufacturing cycle.
Construction in the last unit (No.
6) was officially launched last December.
In the contract frame for the fifth and sixth power unit of power plants, JSC Aem-Technologies will produce and supply two nuclear reactors with internal and block over VVER-1000 types, two sets of steam generators, reactor cooling liquids.
Pump sets of corpses, main circulation pipes, emergency core cooling system tanks, passive core flood system tanks and two pressurisers.
The total weight of items will be around 6,000 tons.
The reactor is an item from the first safety class.
This is a vertical cylinder body with the bottom of the ellipse.
The core and internally located on the ship.
Steam generator is a heat exchanger and part of the steam generator unit and weighs around 340 tons.
The NPP power unit set includes four steam generators.
The first power unit of the Kudankulam plant continues to operate at a 1,000 MW design capacity level since February 2016.
The second unit was included in the National Grid of the State in August 2016.
The framework agreement with the Rosatom on the third and fourth unit construction was signed in 2014.
In June 2017, the engineering division Rosatom and International Enomic Energy Corporation signed an agreement on the construction of the third stage (unit ‘No.
5 and No.
6).
Russian CO starts manufacturing n-reactors for the last unit of Kudankulam N-PLANT
