Russia has delivered some 1,700 tons of state-of-art nuclear equipment to China, including a reactor hull and four steam generators for the Tianwan nuclear power plant. The facility already has four older VVER-1000 water-water energetic reactors among its six operational units and is set to receive two more VVER-1200 reactors, which would make it the largest nuclear power plant in the world in terms of energy output.
The reactor hull arrived on Thursday at the construction site of the plant’s Unit 7, located in coastal Jiangsu Province, after a two-month sea voyage from St. Petersburg. The four steam generators were delivered to the location a day before.
The equipment was manufactured at Volgodonsk, a river port that houses the nuclear engineering company Atommash, a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy giant Rosatom.
The VVER-1200 reactor is housed in a massive 13-meter-long, 4.5-meter-wide barrel-shaped pressure containment unit, which weighs 320 tons. Each reactor hull complements four steam generators, which convert heat energy into a form that can be harnessed by steam turbines to generate electricity. They are of similar size and weigh 340 tons each.
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