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Steam collectors
installed at Rooppur NPP
in Bangladesh
BANGLADESH WORK continues on the construction of the The Rooppur plant is being built by Rosatom
Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh, with employees on the eastern bank of the River Ganges in Bang-
of Russia’s Energospetsmontazh completing the ladesh’s Pabna district about 160 km north-west
installation of four steam collectors at the con- of the capital city of Dhaka.
struction site of Unit 1. It will comprise two VVER-1200 reactors:
The steam collector is one of the largest com- Rooppur 1 is scheduled to start operating 2023,
ponents of the steam generator. The collector followed by Rooppur 2 in 2024.
length is about 11 metres, width 2.7 metres,
height over 3 metres and weight 10.305 tonnes.
The collector consists of a pipe with a diameter
of 630 mm, a bottom and ten steam outlet pipes.
The steam collector is welded to ten nozzles
on the steam generator body through which
steam is supplied to the turbine.
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