Atommash, the heavy equipment manufacturing division of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has manufactured and shipped the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and the full set of four steam generators for the Tianwan-7 nuclear power plant under construction in Jiangsu province, east China.
The company said the components, which are among the heaviest in a nuclear reactor system, will leave a factory in Volgodonsk, southwest Russia, and head for the ports of St Petersburg for the journey to China by sea.
The RPV is a 320-tonne component which contains the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the nuclear fuel assemblies.