The reactor vessel, components of the pressurizer and the pipeline valves will be manufactured from blanks weighing more than 650 tons.
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 quantity of blanks corresponds to the agreed project implementation deadlines and confirms the status of the Russian state corporation as a reliable international partner.