Russian Atommash to make steam generators for Belarusian nuclear power plant in 2016

The Volgodonsk-based branch Atommash of the Russian company AEM Technologies will make steam generators for the Belarusian nuclear power plant in 2016, BelTA learned from Vitaly Shishov, Atommash Director of Operations, on 26 August.

The process of making a steam generator includes two phases: components of the shell are made and the so-called zero assembly is performed. The manufacturing process takes 590-600 days. Quality control is part of the process in addition to manufacturing operations, explained Vitaly Shishov.

Plans have been made to make a steam generator for the first power-generating unit in Q1 2016. The readiness of the steam generators now stands at 70%, 65%, 55%, and 50%. The same kind of products for the second power-generating unit will be ready in November 2016.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The Belarusian nuclear power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). In line with the general contract for building the nuclear power plant the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020.

AEM Technologies was established in 2007. It is part of Atomenergomash, the mechanical engineering division of the Russian nuclear industry corporation Rosatom. AEM Technologies has an engineering division in Saint Petersburg and two manufacturing divisions: Petrozavodskmash in Petrozavodsk and Atommash in Volgodonsk.