Key stage completed in manufacture of RNPP’s first reactor pressure vessel
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Key stage completed in manufacture of RNPP’s first reactor pressure vessel

Key stage completed in manufacture of RNPP’s first reactor pressure vessel


Rosatom, the Russian contractor of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), has completed the key stage in manufacturing the first Reactor Pressure Vessel of the project.

“Finishing weld connecting the two halves of the Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) for Unit-1 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant has been completed by AEM Technology in Volgodonsk in Russia”, Rodatom said a press release.

It is key stage in the manufacturing process of RPV, it said.

The 2,400MW Rooppur NPP is designed and constructed according to the Russian design. The plant will consist of two power units each with a capacity of 1200MW, and equipped with generation 3+.  VVER-1200 reactor.

AEM Technology is a part of Atomenergomash, the engineering division of Russia’s state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom.

Rosatom said the process lasted 10 days with continuous heating of the weld zone at 150 to 300 degree Celsius and required about two tons of flux and more than one and a half tons of wire of 4mm diameter.

Following completion of welding, the reactor pressure vessel weighing 320 tonnes was heated at 300C for two days in furnace. In the next stage specialists are out a whole range of tests in the weld zones including radiographic, ultrasound and penetration tests.

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In parallel with the manufacture of reactor pressure vessel, the plant is manufacturing its internals, reactor cover and the upper unit as well. 

As of Wednesday, the vessel of the Reactor Core Barrel has been manufactured; baffle and a protective tube unit are at final stage of manufacturing, said Rosatom.

The reactor is a vertical cylindrical vessel with an elliptical bottom. The core and the internals are located inside the vessel.

From above, the reactor is hermetically sealed by a cover with the drives of mechanisms and elements for regulating and protecting the reactor, and nozzles for passage of cables of the in-core monitoring sensors installed on it.

Also read: RNPP work sees further progress, says Rosatom

Atomenergomash is a single source supplier of all equipment of the reactor compartment of the Rooppur NPP and a significant part of the equipment for the turbine island. Different division of the company manufacture Reactors, Steam Generators, Pumping and Heat Exchange Equipment.

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