Hydraulic testing completed on Akkuyu-1 reactor vessel

The Akkuyu-1 reactor pressure vessel. Photo: Atomenergomash
Atommash has completed hydraulic testing of the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1 at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, the four-unit facility currently under construction on the Mediterranean coast in southern Turkey. Atommash is part of Atomenergomash, the engineering division of Rosatom, which is Russia’s state atomic energy agency.