Russia Ships Reactor Vessel To India’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant

Rosatom, Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, has shipped a VVER-1000 reactor vessel for Unit 6 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Tamil Nadu, India.

The massive equipment, weighing 320 tonnes, is an essential component of the Russian-designed NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in India.

The reactor vessel began its journey from the Atommash manufacturing plant, a division of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering sector.

Transported by specialised motorised vehicles, it was first delivered to the plant dock and then loaded onto a river vessel, which carried it to the seaport of Novorossiysk.

From there, the reactor vessel was loaded into the shiphold for its six-thousand-mile journey to India.

Valery Kryzhanovsky, General Designer at OKB GIDROPRESS JSC, said that while Rosatom has a strong position in the nuclear industry, it is constantly working to improve its…

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