The shipment of nuclear reactor for the second phase of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) will start in 2017, a Russian Cultural Centre press release on Friday said, quoting Igor Kotov, CEO of AEM-Technologies, here on Friday.
“Supply contract has been signed and we have already received the advance payment,” the press release quoted him as saying. According to Mr. Kotov, AEM-Technologies will produce a set of steam generators for the third power unit of Kudankulam NPP and the reactor vessel will be manufactured by Izhorskie Zavody (IZHZ). A set of steam generators and the reactor vessel for the fourth unit would be produced by AEM-Technologies, he added.
The release said the AEM-Technologies Company was created in 2007 as a branch of Atomenergomash. The engineering company also produces equipment for nuclear industry, thermal power and gas and oil chemistry. Atomenergomash, a part of SC Rosatom, was created in 2006 to diversify the Russian market for nuclear engineering and machinery construction.
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The first power unit of Kudankulam NPP was put into operation on December 31, 2014. The second unit’s construction has been completed and is proposed to be commissioned in December 2015. Russia and India had in April signed the general framework agreement on construction of the second phase of the Kudankulam NPP, including the third and the fourth power units.