Reactor pressure vessel, steam generator reach Rooppur plant site
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The reactor pressure vessel and the steam generator, the two main equipment for the power unit-1 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), have been delivered to the site.
On November 10, a special barge delivered the reactor pressure vessel for VVER-1200 and the steam generator from the Bangladesh seaport of Mongla along the Padma River to the nuclear power plant construction site, reads a press release.
Earlier, on October 20, the equipment arrived on the cargo vessel at Mongla port, from where those were reloaded onto a river barge.
The transportation of the heavy equipment to the RNPP construction site took almost 2.5 months. The distance along the sea and river routes was, in total, more than 14,000 kilometres.
The reactor pressure vessel and the steam generator were manufactured at the Atommash plant in Volgodonsk, a branch of the AEM-technologies company — part of the Rosatom machine-building division - Atomenergomash JSC — in Russia.
The reactor is a vertical cylindrical body with an elliptical bottom, inside which the core and internals are located. The steam generator is a cylindrical vessel with two elliptical bottoms. In its middle part there are collectors for supplying and removing the coolant, in the upper part there is a steam space, and in the lower part there is a heat exchanger consisting of 11,000 stainless pipes with a total length of 148.5km.
The RNPP is a Russian-designed nuclear power plant in Bangladesh. The selected site for the construction of the station is located on the east bank of the Padma River, some 160 km off the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
The RNPP is planned to be built within the framework of an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Bangladesh, which was concluded in November 2011.
In the fall of 2013, the foundation stone of the future power plant was laid. The plant will consist of two power units with VVER-type reactors; the life cycle of the plant is 60 years with the possibility of extension for another 20 years, adds the release.
