21.03.2008 // Press service of Atomstroyexport CJSC

Atomstroyexport has supplied 40th lot of equipment to Kudankulam NPP

The 40th lot of equipment – 3,000 tons – was delivered to the port of Tuticorin (India) from St.Petersburg on Mar 20 2008. The equipment has been sent by Atomstroyexport for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

The lot consisted of 500 tons of pipes and almost 4,500 units of fitting for different systems of the 1st reactor of the plant as well as cable, pumps, ventilators and other equipment manufactured by Russian and Ukrainian companies according to relevant contracts.

The new lot will help the constructors to carry out installation and start-up work and to prepare for the next stage of the project.

The deliveries were started in Oct 2002. A total of 314,000 c m of equipment with a total weight of 76,328 tons have been supplied to the construction site of Kudankulam NPP so far.

The next lot is to be delivered in late Apr 2008.

Note:

The Kudankulam NPP project was launched in 2002. Atomstroyexport provides advising, drafts working documentation, supplies equipment and materials and trains personnel. The construction and installation activities are carried out by the Indian side.  

Atomstroyexport is the leading Russian organization implementing contracts for the construction of nuclear reactors abroad. Presently, it is the only company in the world simultaneously building five reactors in India, Iran and Bulgaria.