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August 2, 2024
The first component of a large-scale nuclear power plant, the core recovery plant, was delivered from Russia to the structure of the Paks II nuclear power plant in Hungary.
The core catcher is a key piece of protection apparatus: it is a cone-shaped container made of heat-resistant metal that, in the unlikely event of an emergency, will safely retain molten core material and prevent it from escaping. radioactive ingredients. reactor containment.
Manufacturing of the core collector for Unit Five of the Paks plant was completed in Volgodonsk, Russia, earlier this year.
The aircraft – with a maximum diameter of 11 meters, a height of more than 15 meters and a weight of more than 730 tons – transported through the water an adventure that covered a total of 3,200 kilometers and lasted 48 days.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said: “Usually, overseas shipments arrive at foreign shipments and this one is no exception. The shipment arranged through an Austrian company and the carrot trap arrived in Paks on a Slovak ship.
“Our specialists are now taking care of the core collector and the structure itself is fully operational, so that the new assemblies at the Paks nuclear power plant can be operational at the beginning of the next decade, thus ensuring the security of supply of forces and assistance from Hungary. “We will maintain the benefits of reducing overall prices over the long term. “
“It is deeply symbolic that the first large device to arrive at the Paks II NPP structure is a detail of the plant’s safety systems,” added Vitaly Polyanin, Vice President of ASE JSC and Director of the Paks NPP. Power plant structure project. ” The reliability and protection of the new Hungarian nuclear power plant are therefore established long before it starts operating. We are doing everything possible to be able to start structuring the nuclear power plants and then install the molten core reclaimer, a fundamental detail of the passive protection of the Hungarian nuclear power plant. the new Hungarian nuclear power plant, at the end of this year or early next year”.
According to Rosatom, preparatory work is being carried out as planned for the structure of Unit 5 of Paks, for which the core collector is intended. Currently, the soil stabilization is almost complete and the preparation for the extraction of the soil from the pit to the 23-meter nominal elevation is underway, which is a prerequisite to start with the preparation of the base slab and the upcoming large-scale paintings for the structure of the new power plant.
The Paks II allocation was introduced in early 2014 through an intergovernmental agreement between Hungary and Russia for Rosatom to provide two VVER-1200 reactors, with the contract financed by a loan from the Russian state to finance the bulk of the allocation. . The structure permit application submitted in July 2020 to build Paks II next to the existing Paks factory, one hundred kilometers southwest of Budapest, on the banks of the Danube. Planning permission issued in August 2022 and a structural timetable agreed last year called for connecting the new appliances to the grid in the early 2030s.