On November 28, M/S Elke with the twenty first equipment consignment for Kudankulam NPP left for India. In total, two vessels left for the Indian NPP in November.
“We are entering the normal work schedule for deliveries”, informed Alexander Kvasha, Technical Director of JSC ASE. “The plants hand over the manufactured equipment eagerly, releasing additional production facilities”.
The cargo for the second stage of Kudankulam NPP has the volume of 4,963 m3 and total weight of 1,130 tons, it consists of 418 cargo places. For Unit 3, the polar crane equipment was loaded aboard: a bridge assembly and a service platform; for Unit 4: housings and gate valves of air supply system for passive heat removal, trestle crane and passive core flooding system tank; for both units: busbars, hydraulic shock absorbers, tank equipment, pumps, valves, first-priority pipelines, tubular electric heater units of quick boron injection system tank.
Arrival of equipment in the Indian port is expected in December 2020.
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Power units No 3, 4 and 5, 6 are the second and the third stages of Kudankulam NPP constructed under AES-92 design with VVER-1000 (V-412) reactor type. The technical solutions implemented in Kudankulam NPP design characterize further evolutionary development of NPPs with high power VVER-reactor and transition to creation of a new, reliable, safe and feasible power unit.
New power units of Kudankulam NPP comply with the most up-to-date safety requirements of the IAEA.
The developer and the technical customer of the facility is Nuclear Power Corporation of India. The general designer and supplier of equipment is ASE EC JSC.
Currently, power units No. 1, 2 of Kudandulam NPP are operating at the capacity established by the operation schedule.
The radiation level at Kudankulam NPP and its location area corresponds to the level of normal operation of power units and does not exceed natural background value.
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The Engineering Division is the leader in terms of project portfolio and the number of NPP projects that are implemented abroad simultaneously.
About 80% of the Division's income is accounted for by foreign projects.
The Engineering Division implements design and construction projects for high-power NPPs both in Russia and abroad, it renders a full range of EPC, EPC(M) services including project management and designing and develops Multi-D technologies for management of complex engineering facilities. The Engineering Division is guided by the achievement of the nuclear power industry of Russia and innovative state-of-the-art technologies.
We construct reliable and safe NPPs with 3+Gen VVER reactors that are in line with all international requirements and recommendations.