$20bn station will have four Generation III+ VVER-1200 units
Russia’s Atomenergomash has delivered all four steam generators for Unit 1 of the Akkuyu nuclear power station under construction in southwest Turkey, according to project owner Akkuyu Nuclear JSC.
Akkuyu Nuclear said in a statement that the 365-tonne steam generators were unloaded from a cargo ship to a storage area where the quality of the equipment and its documentation will be assessed by a commission before acceptance.
In a pressurised water reactor, the steam generators act as heat exchangers where water carrying heat generated from the nuclear reaction is used to turn demineralised water into steam.
Akkuyu Nuclear said in a statement that the 365-tonne steam generators were unloaded from a cargo ship to a storage area where the quality of the equipment and its documentation will be assessed by a commission before acceptance.
In a pressurised water reactor, the steam generators act as heat exchangers where water carrying heat generated from the nuclear reaction is used to turn demineralised water into steam.
The $20bn Akkuyu nuclear power station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Turkey, is being built near Mersin on the country’s southern Mediterranean coast under a contract signed with Russia in 2010.
The station will have four Generation III+ VVER-1200 units, with the first expected to come online in 2023 and a further unit starting every year afterwards.
Earlier this week, Russia said it had shipped the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1 at Akkuyu.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, construction of Akkuyu-1 began in April 2018 and of Akkuyu-2 in April 2020.
