Akkuyu nuclear power plant project, Turkey

20th November 2020

By: Sheila Barradas

Creamer Media Research Coordinator & Senior Deputy Editor

     

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Name of the Project
Akkuyu nuclear power plant (NPP) project.

Location
Mersin, Turkey.

Project Owner/s
Akkuyu Nuclear, comprising Inter RAO UES JSC, Rosenergoatom JSC, Atomtechenergo JSC, Atomenergoremont JSC and Rusatom Energy International JSC.

Project Description
The Akkuyu NPP will be based on an NPP-2006 serial project. The 4 800 MWe plant will comprise four VVER1200 reactors and is expected to meet about 10% of Turkey's electricity needs.

The power unit includes a reactor plant and a turbine plant.

The primary circuit is radioactive and comprises a reactor, four reactor coolant loops, four reactor coolant pumps, heating parts of four steam generators and one steam pressuriser.

The secondary circuit is not radioactive. It comprises steam generators; fresh steam conduits; one turbine unit comprising a turbine plant and a turbine generator; condensate pumps; a system of low-pressure regenerative heaters; a turbine condensate system; deaerators; a feedwater system, including feedwater pumps; and a system of high-pressure regenerative heaters.

The turbine is equipped with a condensing unit, regenerative installation for heating the feed water and separators – steam superheaters – with unregulated steam extraction for the NPP’s auxiliary needs and for heating of chemically treated water additives in the circuit.

Capital Expenditure
The project is estimated at $20-billion.

Planned Start/End Date
The commissioning of the first power unit is expected in 2021, with subsequent units to be commissioned every year thereafter.

Latest Developments
The reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1 of the Akkuyu NPP was delivered to site on November 10. The equipment was transported 3 000 km over 20 days from the Atommash quay at the Tsimlyanskoye reservoir, in Volgodonsk, Russia, to the Eastern Cargo Terminal at the Akkuyu plant site, in Mersin. Atommash is a subsidiary of Russia's AEM Technology.

The RPV is a big piece of equipment, which, at the NPP operation stage, accommodates nuclear fuel and a nuclear reaction involving the liberation of a high amount of heat under high pressure.

The RPV weighs 330 t, is 4.5 m in diameter and is 12 m high, and  took nearly three years to manufacture. It comprises more than 750 production processes. It passed more than 300 quality control tests at various stages of its manufacture.

The arrival of the vessel follows delivery in late September of four steam generators for the unit.

Key Contracts, Suppliers and Contracts
GE Steam Power and AEM Turbine technology, a joint venture between AtomEnergoMash and General Electric, or GE (design and supply the equipment and systems for the whole conventional island) and JSC Tyazhmash (core melt trap).

Contact Details for Project Information
Akkuyu NPP JSC, tel +90 312 442 60 00, fax +90 312 442 60 16 or email office@akkunpp.com.

 

 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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