Russia’s Atommash has completed the welding of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for the fourth unit at Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power station.
Russian state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom said the welding process took 10 days with continuous heating of the weld zone in the range from 170 to 280 degrees Celsius.
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