Air lock chamber has been delivered for power unit No 1 for Novovoronezh NPP-2. According to Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, the equipment manufactured at Volgodonsk branch of AEM-technologies CJSC (Atomenergomash) was delivered to Novovoronezh by the Don river. Total length of the route made some 700 km.
The air lock chamber (hull weight - 228 tonnes, length – over 12 m, diameter – about 10 m) was unloaded from the barge by a tracked crane Liebherr to modular trailers intended for transportation of extra-heavy cargo and then moved to the construction site of Novovoronezh NPP-2.
The equipment will be installed in November at the specified position of +26.3 m.
The air lock chamber is a cylindrical chamber hermetically locked from both sides. It is used for radioactivity protection of NPP personnel and the environment when delivering cargoes to the reactor hall during scheduled outage and fuel change.
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