Steam equipment shipped for Rooppur unit 1

The equipment was shipped by road to the port of Saint Petersburg, where it will be loaded onto a container ship and transported by sea about 14,000km to the Rooppur site, which is on the eastern bank of the river Ganges.

A steam collector, one of the main components of a steam generator, measures over 11m in length, 2.7m across and 3m high. It has a dead weight of more than 7 tonnes. One reactor unit has four steam generators.

The reactor pressure vessel and a steam generator for Rooppur unit 1 arrived on site on 10 November.

Rosatom in February 2011 signed an agreement for two 1000 MWe-class reactors to be built at Rooppur for the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. The initial contract for the project, worth USD12.65 billion, was signed in December 2015.