NEW DELHI: Russia’s state-run atomic agency said on Monday that it has shipped the reactor vessel for the sixth power unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant to India.
The Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu, which will have six reactors with a total installed capacity of 6,000 MW, is the largest nuclear power plant in India and the flagship project of Russian-Indian energy cooperation. The production cycle for making a reactor vessel is two years.
Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom said the reactor vessel for the sixth power unit at the Kudankulam plant is being transported to the construction site from the seaport of Novorossiysk. The equipment, weighing 320 tonnes and manufactured by Atommash, Rosatom’s machine-building division, was shipped at the end of 2024.
The “reactor vessel was placed in the hold of a sea vessel for the 6,000-mile journey to India”, Rosatom said in a statement.
“A set of four steam generators for the sixth unit of the Kudankulam NPP in India will be shipped in 2025,” the statement said.
Four power units are currently being built at the Kudankulam site. The first two units were connected to India’s national grid in 2013 and 2016 and currently supply electricity to the country’s southern region.
Construction and installation work on the third and fourth units is nearing completion, and construction of the fifth and sixth power units has begun. Rosatom will provide fuel to the power units of the Kudankulam plant throughout their entire life cycle.
{{/usCountry}}Construction and installation work on the third and fourth units is nearing completion, and construction of the fifth and sixth power units has begun. Rosatom will provide fuel to the power units of the Kudankulam plant throughout their entire life cycle.
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