2019-10-02 11:15:00
RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR FOR BANGLADESH
WNN - 01 October 2019 - Atommash, part of the Volgodonsk branch of Russia's AEM Technology, has completed the manufacture of the upper part of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.
Welding of the parts of the structure took 25 days. It was then heated at 300 degrees Celsius for six days, Atommash said yesterday. Atommash and AEM Technology are subsidiaries of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
Two 1200 MWe (gross) VVER-1200 units are being built at Rooppur, which is on the eastern…
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