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MINSK, 14 March (BelTA) – The Volgodonsk-based branch Atommash of the Russian company AEM Technologies (part of Atomenergomash, which is the mechanical engineering division of the Russian state corporation Rosatom) has finished the controlled assembly of in-vessel devices for the reactor of the first power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, the Atomenergomash press service told BelTA.

The devices that will be put inside the reactor vessel are assembled using special stands that imitate a VVER-1200 nuclear reactor.

The in-vessel devices include multiple products ranging from the 11-meter-long shaft hull to small parts such as witness samples. A total of about 300 various elements can be installed inside the reactor vessel.

The reactor vessel for the first power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was shipped in October 2015.

The reactor is a vertical cylinder with an elliptical bottom. The reactor core and the internal components are located inside.

Atomenergomash is the power plant engineering division of the Russian state corporation Rosatom and one of Russia’s top power plant engineering companies.

Established in 2007, AEM Technologies is part of Atomenergomash. AEM Technologies makes equipment for nuclear energy industry, heat energy industry, gas, oil and chemical industries. AEM Technologies has an engineering division in Saint Petersburg and two manufacturing divisions in Petrozavodsk and Volgodonsk.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The BelNPP will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). In line with the general contract for building the nuclear power plant the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020.