The fabrication of the reactor and steam generators for Unit 6 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, being executed with Russian technical knowhow, has commenced in Volgodonsk.
Russia’s Rosatom – Atomenergomash has already constructed 2x1,000 MWe VVER reactors at Kudankulam, and is building four more reactors with similar capacity at the upcoming nuclear park for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). The fabrication of the reactor and steam generators for Unit 6 is being carried out by Atommash, AEM-Technologies, a machine-building division of Rosatom.