ROSATOM ships key blanks for the reactor hall equipment of El Dabaa NPP in Egypt
Metallurgical plant AEM-Special Steels (Mechanical engineering division of Rosatom) has manufactured and shipped a large lot of blanks for the equipment of El Dabaa NPP Unit 1, which is being built in Egypt by Rosatom according to the Russian design.
Twenty-four large blanks with a total weight of more than 650 tons were sent to the industrial sites of the division in Volgodonsk, Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg. They will be used to manufacture the equipment for the primary coolant circuit of the reactor plant: reactor vessel, pressurizer, main coolant pipeline.
For the moment, AEM-Special Steels has completed the production of metallurgical blanks for the equipment of El Dabaa NPP Unit 1 by 75 %. The shipment of such quantities of blanks corresponds to the agreed project implementation deadlines and confirms the status of the Russian state corporation as a reliable international partner.
The manufacture of metallurgical products from steels with special properties, intended for operation in special conditions, is a basic stage in the overall production cycle of equipment for a nuclear power plant. AEM-Special Steels plant provides all the key operations of this stage: steelmaking, forging and pressing, thermal and machining.
The blanks undergo several levels of thorough inspection of the compliance of the metal properties with the specified parameters, which determine the required level of reliability and safety of the equipment for the manufacture of which they will be used.
The manufacture of the tubes for the reactor hall of El Dabaa NPP Unit 1 has started at Petrozavodskmash, which is the other factory of the Mechanical engineering division of Rosatom. Specialists have started to overlay the tubes that are intended for the main coolant pipeline (MCP).
The total weight of the tube set will be 276 tons. Petrozavodskmash was the first plant in Russia, which has mastered the manufacturing technology of seamless clad pipes for nuclear power plants.
It is expected that full completion of the production of blanks for the El Dabaa NPP construction plan will take place before the end of 2024.
