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ION Energy talks up
Mongolian lithium
potential
MONGOLIA ION Energy Limited has told Proactive that it assets in Mongolia.
advanced its Baavhai Uul and Urgakh Naran “We are encouraged by the prospect of
lithium salar exploration projects in late April, Baavhai Uul’s pending additional drilling results
while the company awaited results from brine and Urgakh Naran’s current sampling,” Haji
collected and core samples. reportedly said..
The flagship Baavhai Uul project had shown ION technical advisor Mark King was quoted
around 25% lithium anomalies to date, with fur- as saying that he observed the geology and mor-
ther drilling results pending, it added. Results phology for the Urgakh Naran site to be highly
from core brine sampling at Urgakh Naran were prospective “with some parallels to Nevada playa
expected in coming weeks. basins and South American salars.”
ION CEO Ali Haji was cited as saying that a ION Energy intends to become a leader in
site visit reinforced the view of the potential of clean energy amid a global rise in demand for
the company’s highly prospective, world-class lithium.
Work begins on dome for
Unit 1 at Bangladesh’s
Rooppur NPP
BANGLADESH AT the construction site of the Rooppur NPP in an important step towards the start of a physi-
Bangladesh work has begun on the pre-assembly cal start-up,” said Alexei Deriy, vice president of
of the outer containment dome at Unit 1. JSC ASE and director of the Rooppur NPP con-
Assembly work and subsequent construc- struction project. The installation of the dome is
tion and concreting are being carried out by staff scheduled for October 2022.
from Russia’s Trest RosSEM, which is part of the The dome consists of two parts: lower and
Engineering Division of Rosatom. upper (“skirt” and “skullcap”). The lower part
The stage of preparation, assembly, installa- is formed from 12 separate segments, the
tion and concreting of the dome is generally one total weight of each of which is 18 tons with
of the longest during the construction of a unit, reinforcement.
lasting 1,151 days. To reduce the time for this The dome part consists of 17 of the same
stage, a special project has been launched aimed segments. The entire dome will be completely
at reducing the time to 584 days. assembled on the ground, after which the lower
“Installation of the NZO dome is the final part will be mounted at elevation 48,880 metres.
stage of construction work at the construction After its alignment and fixing, the upper part
of the power unit. It opens up an opportunity will be mounted at elevation 57,140 metres.
for the arrangement of structures and equip- After installation of both parts, the dome will be
ment for passive heat removal systems and is concreted.
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