Chennai 5 Sep : Russian integrated nuclear power giant Rosatom on Monday announced that it had completed welding of the steam generator heads of Unit 5 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.According to Rosatom the preliminary support components, support components, and 11,000 heat exchange coils were built within the steam generator.
Automated welding of the heads is accomplished with heating at the temperature of 120-250 degrees over seven days.The welding of the two welds took the use of 660 kg of wire as well as 935 kg of flux.
Furthermore, experts will conduct local heat treatment of welds as well as a variety of technical tests, which include Eddy-current tests and hydraulic tests of heat exchange tubes, Rosatom said.
The steam generator can be described as a heating equipment which is a an element of the reactor’s facility.
It is one of the first items of the safety class.The equipment measures 14 meters in length, and more than four meters in diameter and weighs 350 tonnes.It is part of is one of the four steam generators at the nuclear power plant.
India’s operator of atomic power plants Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has two 1,000 MW power plants (Units 1 and 2) located in Kudankulam as well as four more (Units 3 4, 5, and 6) are in construction.
Each of the six units is constructed with Russian technology and equipment provided by Rosatom.
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