07.10.2016
Leningrad NPP Information and Public Relations Administration
The Leningrad NPP: the last out of four cranes for nuclear fuel processing has been installed at the 1st power block
The mechanisms of a bridging electric crane with a capacity of 160/5 tons designed for fresh and spent nuclear fuel processing have been installed at the open transformer transfer unit of the Leningrad NPP under construction.
Alexandr Ermilov, the head rigger of the PAO SUS SMU-9 (the TITAN-2 holding) assembly and installation site, said: “The manufacturer has delivered the crane fully ready for installation. We only had to double joint its modules and to install it at the open crane trestle. At the moment, both longitudinal beams have been double-jointed, installed at their project spot at the crane runways, and conjoined. The total weight of the metal works is 36 tons. The 20-tons’ carrier and other elements of the crane have been installed, too”.
This crane will be used to reload the shipping packaging sets with fresh nuclear fuels from the cars into a specially equipped car and to transfer the shipping packaging sets containing spent nuclear fuel from a highway freighter into a special serial. This is the last one out of four cranes designed to process nuclear fuel at the 1st power block under construction. The polar crane, the transporting gate’s trestle crane, and the fresh fuel storage crane have already been commissioned.
According to Pavel Chesnokov, the head of the 1st group at the Leningrad NPP’s centralized maintenance workshop, they are preparing for crane management system installation, cabling, and equipment plugging in. When all installation, wiring, and pre-commissioning activities are completed and the crane undergoes all static and dynamic trials, it will receive a full technical overview and will be registered with the Rostechnadzor.
The Leningrad NPP is an affiliate company for Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is based in the city of Sosnovy Bor, 40 km to the west from Saint Petersburg at the Gulf of Finland shore. The Leningrad NPP is the first Russian nuclear power plant having RBMK-1000 reactors (uranium-graphite channel-type thermal neutron reactors). The NPP exploits 4 power blocks with the electric capacity of 1000 megawatt each. Also, pursuant to the NPP-2006 project, 1,2 VVER-1200 power blocks included into The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM long-term plan are being constructed. Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC is the owner and developer of the project.
Leningrad NPP Information and Public Relations Administration.
Alexandr Ermilov, the head rigger of the PAO SUS SMU-9 (the TITAN-2 holding) assembly and installation site, said: “The manufacturer has delivered the crane fully ready for installation. We only had to double joint its modules and to install it at the open crane trestle. At the moment, both longitudinal beams have been double-jointed, installed at their project spot at the crane runways, and conjoined. The total weight of the metal works is 36 tons. The 20-tons’ carrier and other elements of the crane have been installed, too”.
This crane will be used to reload the shipping packaging sets with fresh nuclear fuels from the cars into a specially equipped car and to transfer the shipping packaging sets containing spent nuclear fuel from a highway freighter into a special serial. This is the last one out of four cranes designed to process nuclear fuel at the 1st power block under construction. The polar crane, the transporting gate’s trestle crane, and the fresh fuel storage crane have already been commissioned.
According to Pavel Chesnokov, the head of the 1st group at the Leningrad NPP’s centralized maintenance workshop, they are preparing for crane management system installation, cabling, and equipment plugging in. When all installation, wiring, and pre-commissioning activities are completed and the crane undergoes all static and dynamic trials, it will receive a full technical overview and will be registered with the Rostechnadzor.
The Leningrad NPP is an affiliate company for Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is based in the city of Sosnovy Bor, 40 km to the west from Saint Petersburg at the Gulf of Finland shore. The Leningrad NPP is the first Russian nuclear power plant having RBMK-1000 reactors (uranium-graphite channel-type thermal neutron reactors). The NPP exploits 4 power blocks with the electric capacity of 1000 megawatt each. Also, pursuant to the NPP-2006 project, 1,2 VVER-1200 power blocks included into The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM long-term plan are being constructed. Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC is the owner and developer of the project.
Leningrad NPP Information and Public Relations Administration.
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