Fresh fuel drum is designed to preheat fuel assemblies
The company has revealed that two intermediate heat exchangers, each weighing 38 tons and measuring 29-ft (9 meters) in height and 8-ft (2.5 meters) in diameter, were installed in accordance with the design specifications.
The equipment was secured on support rings with a maximum deviation of 1 millimeter per meter from the horizontal. Additionally, drums for fresh and spent fuel, weighing 16 tons each, were positioned in their designated locations, according to Rosatom.
Sergey Kiverov, Deputy Director for Facilities under Construction at Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors (RIAR), stated that the fresh fuel drum is designed to preheat fuel assemblies in an inert gas atmosphere prior to loading them into a reactor core.