Rosatom resumes shipment of essential equipment for construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power reactor in Turkey

Russian energy giant Rosatom’s Atommash plant has started shipping steam generators for power unit No. 2 of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which is under construction in Turkey, the company’s press service said.

Steam generators are the main equipment of the reactor compartment of a nuclear power unit. It is also necessary to obtain the water vapor that drives the turbine generator. The set includes four steam generators, each weighing 355 tons.
The products will first be delivered to the port of Tsimlyansk Reservoir by land. Then the steam generators will be loaded onto a barge and sent to Turkey by sea.

Akkuyu is the first nuclear power plant under construction in Turkey, located in Mersin Province. The project includes four power units with third-generation “VVER-1200” reactors.

Each NPP has a capacity of 1200 megawatts. The construction of a nuclear power plant is the first project in the global nuclear industry to be implemented in accordance with the Build-Own-Operate Law.

The construction cost is about $20 billion. The project meets all modern international safety requirements in the nuclear power industry.

The construction of the first power unit of the nuclear power plant under the supervision of Rosatom began in April 2018, the second in April 2020, and the third in March of this year.