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Rosatom installs

turbogenerator stator at

Bangladesh’s Rooppur NPP

BANGLADESH ROSATOM has installed a turbo-generator sta- Rosatom also recently announced that con-
tor at Unit I of the Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh. struction of the auxiliary reactor building for
The stator, weighing 440 tonnes, the heaviest the Rooppur unit 1 had been completed eight
component in the turbo-generator set, is respon- months ahead of schedule. The construction
sible for the conversion of a turbine’s mechanical period was reduced by 241 days. Logistics pro-
energy into electricity, said equipment manufac- cesses were optimised, jobs were provided in a
turer Atomstroyexport. timely manner with the necessary resources, pri-
The Rooppur NPP will comprise two VVER- marily materials and tools, Rosatom said.
1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2,400 MWe. “This level of professionalism of our employ-
It is being built based on a general contract ees allows us to say with confidence that the
signed in 2015. construction of the first nuclear power plant
Construction of Unit 1 began in November in Bangladesh will be completed on schedule,
2017 and Unit 2 in July 2018. The first Gener- despite a number of objective and subjective dif-
ation 3+ VVER-1200 reactors to be built are ficulties associated with the pandemic and the
already operating at the Novovoronezh and Len- difficult international situation,” said Aleksey
ingrad NPPs in Russia and in Belarus, with oth- Deriy, vice president of ASE and director of the
ers under construction in Turkey and planned Rooppur NPP construction project.
in Egypt. Meanwhile, the cargo ship FESCO OLGA
The TZV-1200-2 turbo-generator for Roop- with the next batch of equipment for Rooppur
pur was designed and manufactured by Russia’s NPP has left the port of St Petersburg with equip-
Power Machines. ment for Units 1 and 2, consisting of 1,300 dif-
In March, Rosatom said that the Russian con- ferent items.
tractor Energospetsmontazh had completed the The total volume of cargo is more than 5500
installation of four steam collectors at the con- cubic metres and weighs 1,573 tonnes. It will be
struction site of Unit 1. delivered to the NPP site in June.
The steam collector is one of the largest com- The Rooppur plant is being built by Rosatom
ponents of the steam generator. The collector’s on the eastern bank of the River Ganges in Bang-
length is about 11 metres, width 2.7 metres, ladesh’s Pabna district about 160 km north-west
height over 3 metres and weight 10.305 tonnes. of the capital city of Dhaka.™
The collector consists of a pipe with a diameter
of 630 mm, a bottom and ten steam outlet pipes.

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