Timely equipment delivery for Belarusian nuclear station promised

The Russian company ZAO AEM Technologies (Atommash, the city of Volgodonsk) will fulfill the order for making equipment for the Belarusian nuclear power plant on time, the company’s Director General Yevgeny Pakermanov told media, RIA Novosti reports.

Yevgeny Pakermanov reminded that in April the company signed the contracts to make both the molten core catcher and the reactor system for two power-generating units of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

“As far as the first contract is concerned, its fulfillment is closer as far as deadlines are concerned. We should supply the first lot of equipment as early as this year. We should supply the first reactor system for the first power-generating unit in 2015. The schedules are intense, they are close to the manufacturing time limit, but they are realistic,” he said.

Yevgeny Pakermanov noted that the next week the Ukrainian enterprise Energomashspetsstal will start manufacturing long-cycle intermediates for the reactor shells. “It will be done so that in October we could get the intermediates and start working with them. Then we will be on the schedule the customer wants us to be. We will not fail the order,” assured the executive.

In March ZAO AEM Technologies won the tender to make the reactor shell for the first power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. In line with the contract the order will be fulfilled by late 2015. After that, parts of the reactor shell will be delivered to the Ostrovets site where the nuclear station is being built. ZAO AEM Technologies will supply the reactor shell, internals (a shaft and a baffle), a set of protective pipes and the upper unit as well as supporting rings and alignment instruments. The company will also make the so-called molten core catcher.

Belarus is busy building a nuclear power plant that will have two power-generating units with the total output of 2,400MW. The general contractor is the Russian company OAO NIAEP – ZAO Atomstroyexport. The first power-generating unit is scheduled to go online in 2018, with the second one scheduled for commissioning in July 2020.