Atomstroyexport as the General Contractor has entered a contract with a Russian company Sverdniikhimmash (SCERI JSC) for manufacturing and supplying hi-tech equipment to handle liquid radioactive waste at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
An agreement in this regard was recently signed between the two organizations in this regard.
Under the contract, SCERI will design, manufacture and supply three drain water treatment plants, three deep evaporation plants, two cementation plants, two conditioning plants, two intermediary storage plants, WIR (waste ion resins) loading and unloading units, the container for WIR transportation. The equipment will be supplied to the Rooppur NPP site by the third quarter of 2023. SCERI experts will also support pre-commissioning work of the equipment.
“We know SCERI as a safe partner that develops high-quality equipment. At present, the construction of Rooppur NPP is at its active stage- buildings are erected and the installation of the main equipment in two power units has been performed. For sure, this contract will facilitate fulfilment of our obligations to the Customer of Rooppur NPP – manufacture and installation of the equipment will be done exactly in time,” said Aleksey Deriy, Vice-President of ASE and Director of the Rooppur NPP Construction Project.
“It is a large-scale and very critical order for SCERI and choosing our institute as a designer and supplier of the process equipment for liquid radioactive waste handling is absolutely justified. For many years, SCERI has been specializing in designing and manufacturing of efficient and safe equipment for nuclear waste handling. Equipment, designed by our engineers is functioning in many Russian nuclear power plants with excellence,” said Aleksandr Cheperanov, Director General of SCERI.
SCERI is a concern of Atomenergomash, the machine-building division of Rosatom. In 2019, SCERI signed a contract for designing, manufacturing, and supply of a package of equipment for handling materials and components not subject to subsequent use, for unit-1 of Rooppur NPP. The first lot of process equipment is now being prepared for shipment to Bangladesh.
The construction work of the country's first nuclear power plant is going on in full swing at Rooppur in Pabna district, with the support of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom. The total capacity of the plant is estimated at 2,400 MW. The government believes at least 1,200MW units of electricity from the first nuclear plant will be added to the national grid by 2023. The second one with the same amount of power will be launched by 2024.
