Rosatom delivers reactor vessel, 4 generators for RNPP

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Rosatom Engineering Division has delivered reactor vessel and four steam generators for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), according to a message received in Dhaka on Thursday.

It said heavy equipment of the reactor compartment of Unit 2 was manufactured at Atommash plant in Volgodonsk branch of AEM-Technology.

The equipment was transported to a special berth of Tsimlyansk water reservoir in Volgodonsk, loaded on barges and shipped to Novorossiysk.

The length of the sea route of the equipment that was shipped on the Anna vessel from Novorossiysk to Bangladesh port of Mongla-via the Black Sea and the Suez Canal-was about 14000 km.

The manufacturing of the VVER-1200 reactor vessel lasted for over two years. All the operations were performed with the participation of representatives of the customer’s authorized organization, BAEC and BAERA supervisory authority, the message said.

Last October, the reactor vessel and the steam generators for Rooppur NPP Unit 1 were delivered to Bangladesh.