The VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 6 of India’s Kudankulam NPP in the southern state of Tamil ...
If the reactor were real, the pressure vessel would weigh as much as two 747 jets! Despite the high-tech, the business end is a conventional steam generator. The only difference is that the steam ...
The installation of the first of two 13-metre-long reactor pressure vessels is a pivotal development. Once both units are operational, Hinkley Point C will supply 7% of Britain’s electricity.
Work at Germany’s Brunsbüttel NPP n Schleswig-Holstein to segment and package the steel reactor pressure vessel head was completed ...
The 320-tonne VVER-1000 reactor vessel is travelling by sea from Russia to India's Kudankulam nuclear power plant. ; ...
The reactor pressure vessel is the first to be built for a British power station for more than 30 years. At just 13 metres tall and weighing 500 tonnes, it will create the heat needed to make ...
Images taken by the robot under the No. 1 reactor at the plant also confirmed heavy damage to a concrete “pedestal” under the pressure vessel. The inspection by the robot started on March 29.
The Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu, which will have six reactors with a total installed capacity of 6,000 MW, is the largest ...
The VVER-1000 reactor vessel for the sixth unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu is being transported from Russia to India. The vessel, weighing 320 tonnes, was manufactured at ...