Construction Industry News
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (NPP) has received a pressure regulator from AEM-Technologies, a division of Rosatom's mechanical engineering company that is expanding its civilian nuclear relationship with India.
According to a statement from Rosatom, the pressurizer is called the main circuit equipment of the VVER reactor and is responsible for creating and maintaining pressure and coolant volume.
During the operation of a nuclear reactor, it is used to limit pressure variations in transient and emergency modes. 187.5 tons is the weight of the device. It measures about 14 meters long and 3.3 meters in diameter when assembled. The volume is 79 cubic meters, and the walls are 152 millimeters thick.
The device passed a high-temperature density test and the maximum allowable pressure of 24.7 MPa during the hydraulic test. On April 3, 2023, the customer received the package. About 17,000 kilometers will have to be covered by the pressurizer to reach his destination.
The Kudankulam nuclear power plant, which is located in Tamil Nadu in southern India, is planned to have 6 Power Units with 6000 MW of VVER-1000-type reactor capacity installed. Units No. 1 and No. 2 from the initial phase were added to India's national energy grid in 2013 and 2016, respectively. Power Units Nos. 3, 4 and 5, which represent the second and third phases of the Kudankulam NPP, are now being built.
The state-owned atomic energy company Rosatom's mechanical engineering company Atomenergomash has AEM-Technologies as its largest production company. It is one of the best Russian companies in the nuclear power industry and the only one in the country with a full production cycle, starting with its own production of a metallurgical blank and ending with finished, large-scale high-tech products that can be shipped anywhere in the world.
AEM-Technologies includes an engineering center in St. Petersburg, staffed with experienced designers and process engineers and four production sites.
