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MINSK, 17 March (BelTA) – The Hungarian company Ganz EEM, which is a daughter enterprise of the Russian company Atomenergomash, has shipped a batch of pumps to the Belarusian nuclear power plant, the Atomenergomash press service told BelTA.

Ganz EEM has sent ten pumps for the first power-generating unit, including four BPC-1800 pumps and six DBS-400 pumps. The equipment will be used as part of the Belarusian nuclear power plant’s cooling system and will feed water to the cooling tower.

The Hungarian company is supposed to make a total of eight BPC-1800 pumps for the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The next batch of four pumps will be made by the end of the year.

“This batch is particularly important for the Hungarian enterprise, which has been granted an opportunity to ship its equipment for an overseas project of Rosatom. We hope we will continue taking part in Rosatom’s projects in Russia and outside the country,” said Ganz EEM Director Attila Szitar-Csanadi.

In 2012-2013 Ganz EEM shipped 18 pumps to the Rostov nuclear power plant and components for a fuel-handling machine of the first power-generating unit of the second Leningrad nuclear power plant. Apart from making equipment for the nuclear energy industry Ganz EEM sells pump equipment for the heating industry.

Atomenergomash is the power plant engineering division of the Russian state corporation Rosatom and one of Russia’s top power plant engineering companies.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The BelNPP will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). In line with the general contract for building the nuclear power plant the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020.