BSS, Dhaka
Atomenergomash, a part of machine-building division of Rosatom, has shipped internals of nuclear reactor for the first unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).
The internals include an 11-meter Core Barrel, Core Baffle and Protective Tubes Unit, said a message received on Wednesday.
It said the equipment was shipped by road to the port in Novorossiysk from Volgodonsk branch site of “AEM-technology” and then it will be shipped by water to the nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.
The message said the reactor is a vertical cylindrical vessel with an elliptical bottom, inside which the core and internals are located. The top of the reactor is hermetically sealed with a cover with drives of mechanisms and controls and protection of reactors installed on it and nozzles for outputting cables of in-reactor control sensors.
The cover is mounted to the vessel with studs. In the upper part of the vessel, there are nozzles for supplying and removing the coolant, as well as nozzles for emergency supply of the coolant when the circuit is depressurized.
The RNPP is being designed and constructed according to a Russian project and the engineering division of Rosatom, State Corporation, carried out the design and construction of the facility.
The plant will consist of two power units with VVER-1200 reactors, the life cycle of which is 60 years with the possibility of extending the service life for another 20 years, the message said.