Thursday, July 16, 2015

Rostov NPP: №3 first put into 100% of the thermal power

15.07.2015 09:42 | Department of Information and Public Relations of JSC "Concern" Rosenergoatom "

July 14 at 17:00 Rostov NPP power unit №3, located on the stage of pilot production for the first time put into the nominal power level.

Stage of development of the power from 90 to 100 percent was started at 2 am and took place in accordance with the technological regulations.

The last stage of the development of power was preceded by tests on the level of 75 percent. According to the deputy chief engineer of the second stage of Rostov NPP Andrey Gorbunov, is a set of tests to verify the design characteristics of the equipment. "Show reliable operation, comments on its operation there," - said A.Gorbunov.

Before the development of the next stage of increasing the power of 24 June 2015 №3 unit was disconnected from the network for routine work, and included in the network of 6 July.

Such mandatory inspection equipment after each pass of the stages set capacity at a level of 30, 50, 75-and 90 percent. The whole period of the phased development of power took about six months. Recall unit was restarted in December 2014.

According to Andrey Gorbunov, etc., after the unit at nominal power level will be carried out comprehensive tests for 15 days. There will also be tested to verify the design characteristics of the equipment.

http://www.rosatom.ru/journalist/news/dd1c6980491c9272982fb9222f82fd16