The reactor pressure vessel has been installed in the second AP1000 unit under construction at the Haiyang nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, first concrete has been poured for the foundation of the conventional island for the HTR-PM at Shidaowan. The vessel was first raised from the ground to above the units containment building using a 3200-tonne crawler crane. The large component was then carefully lowered into position within the building. The operation began at 11.09 am on 12 September, 2014 and took less than two hours and twenty minutes to complete, plant constructor China Nuclear Engineering Corporation announced.
The reactor pressure vessel for Haiyang 2 - measuring around 10.3 metres long, with a diameter of about 6.5 metres and weighing some 274 tonnes - was manufactured by Shanghai Electric. The vessel for Unit 1 was produced in South Korea by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction.
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