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17 march 2014
Water tightness tests of the reactor vessel and main circulation system are underway at unit 3 of Russia’s Rostov nuclear power plant. The unit is scheduled to start operating later this year.Demineralized water is being pumped into the unit’s reactor vessel, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom reported. The reactor vessel head is not yet ...
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11 march 2014
The final module — the containment water tank — has been installed at the first of two AP1000 units under construction at Haiyang in China’s Shandong province.The operation to lift the 285-tonne containment cooling tank — with an outer diameter of almost 26 metres, an inner diameter of 10.6 metres and a height of just over 10 metres — took about ...
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