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Russian reactor pressure
vessel installed at India’s
Kudankulam 3
INDIA THE reactor pressure vessel (RPV) has been 2 was included in the national power grid of
installed at unit 3 of India’s Kudankulam NPP (a India in August 2016.
VVER-1000 reactor) in Tamil Nadu. A general framework agreement with Rosa-
In preparation for the installation, a Liebherr tom on the construction of the third and fourth
LR-11350 crawler crane with a lifting capacity of power units was signed in 2014, and in June
1,130 tonnes was checked. This is necessary to 2017, the engineering division of Rosatom and
ensure the technical safety of operations, since the Indian Atomic Energy Corporation signed
the total weight of the RPV is 327 tonnes. an agreement on the construction of the third
Kudankulam NPP will eventually have six stage (units 5 and 6). First concrete for unit 5 was
Russian-supplied VVER-1000 units located. poured in June 2021 and for unit 6 the following
Unit 1 has been operating steadily at the installed December.
capacity of 1,000 MW since February 2016. Unit
Faltering Mongolian coal
industry to benefit from China’s
zeroing of coal import tariffs
MONGOLIA CHINA’S announcement that it is dropping coal coal exports to China have been severely hin-
import tariffs should prove a boon for Mongolia’s dered due to coronavirus border restrictions.
faltering coal mining industry. Mongolia’s GDP declined by 4.6% in 2020
Coal import tariffs levied by Beijing will and rose by 1.4% in 2021, according to the Mon-
be zeroed for a period running from May 1 to golian central bank. It partly attributed the coun-
March 31 next year. try’s slow economic recovery to coal and other
The measure, Argus Media observed, is mineral exports blocked by border closures
aimed at lowering import costs as Beijing ramps imposed by China. Mongolia’s mining output
up efforts to ensure energy supply security. fell by 34.7% y/y in 1Q22.
Mongolia’s economy has been in a slump wRussian coal exports will benefit the most
since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early from the scrapping of the tariffs, according to
2020. One big reason for that is that the country’s Argus.
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