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23.01.2023
Icebreakers. ZiO-Podolsk (part of Rosatom) has begun assembling the second RITM-200 reactor for Chukotka, the fifth icebreaker of the new project 22220. Specialists have begun welding the first circumferential seam on the half-vessel of the reactor. Welding goes continuously for 7 days with constant heating of the metal up to 200 degrees. Today, Rosatom has seven nuclear icebreakers, three of them belong to the new project 22220. Two more icebreakers of this project are being built, as well as a super-icebreaker Rossiya.
Hydrogen. The Russian government, Rosatom and Gazprom signed an agreement on cooperation in the development of hydrogen energy. As part of the agreement, Rosatom is implementing a 2030 program to create technologies in the field of production and handling of hydrogen, organizing serial production of Russian electrolysis plants of various capacities, and carrying out work to create a nuclear power plant with high-temperature gas-cooled reactors.
Tianwan NPP. The Petrozavodsk branch of AEM-Technologies (part of Rosatom) has manufactured the casings of the primary circuit collectors: they are intended for the steam generators of Tianwan NPP Unit 7 (China). The delivery set for one power unit consists of 8 cases of primary circuit collectors – two for each of the four steam generators. Through the collector, heat exchange occurs between the first and second circuits of the reactor coolant and heat is removed from the core. Rosatom is constructing units 7 and 8 of the Tianwan NPP with VVER-1200 reactors.
