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22 july 2013
The calandria for unit 7 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) was recently delivered to the construction site after a 109-day journey from Mumbai.The 40-tonne stainless steel calandria, with a diameter of some 7.8 metres and 32mm-thick walls, was manufactured in Mumbai by M/S Godrej. The large component left the manufacturing plant on ...
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16 july 2013
The construction of France’s first EPR reached a milestone today with the setting of the dome atop its reactor building. Flamanville 3 is scheduled to operate from 2016.One of the world’s most powerful cranes was used to raise the unit’s dome — which measures 43 metres in diameter and weighs some 260 tonnes — and to slowly lower it into place on ...
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