The first unit is scheduled to come online in 2023
The first major components, including the melt trap, have arrived onsite at the Akkuyu nuclear power station under construction in Turkey, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.The 150-tonne melt trap, also known as a core catcher, is a key feature of the passive safety system for the Russia-supplied VVER-1200 reactor. It is provided to catch the molten core material – corium – of a reactor in the unlikely event of a meltdown, preventing it from escaping the containment building.
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