Critical component fabricated for Kudankulam reactor successfully tested

ZIO-Podolsk JSC, an arm of the machine-building division of Rosatom State Corporation - JSC Atomenergomash, which is supplying critical components to the now operational 2 x 1,000 MWe VVER reactors and also four more similar reactors under construction, has fabricated and successfully tested a set of main equipment – the first set of separator-reheater – for Unit 5 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Specialists of ZIO-Podolsk JSC Nuclear Engineering Department developed the engineering design, as well as working design documentation of this vital component and also support the production of the product as it has been a developer and manufacturer of MSRs for Russian and foreign nuclear power plants since 1979. JSC Atomenergomash produces key equipment for Kudankulam NPP such as reactor vessels with internals, steam generators, main circulation pipelines, main circulation pump vessels, pressure compensators, passive core flooding system tanks, separator-reheater, etc. ZIO-Podolsk Mechanical Engineering Plant Joint Stock Company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of sophisticated heat exchange equipment for fuel and energy complex facilities: nuclear and thermal power plants, oil and gas industry, shipbuilding.