The first low-speed high-power turbine was built in Russia

The first in the history of the country, a low-speed, high-power turbine for operation as part of a nuclear power plant has been created and tested in Russia. To implement an ambitious project, a modern high-tech industrial complex was erected on the basis of the Leningrad Metal Plant. At the same time, the enterprise simultaneously produces high-speed turbines, which no other plant in the world can boast of.

But back to the units. The difference between the aforementioned low-speed turbine from the high-speed one is that it rotates twice as slow as 1500 rpm. Consequently, it has a longer service life, since its components are less susceptible to wear.



Today, leading countries tend to use low-speed turbines, among which ours is the most promising. However, high-speed ones will not go anywhere either, since for each industrial project it is necessary to choose its own turbine. Fortunately, as mentioned above, both versions are produced at LMZ.

As for our latest development, it is intended for the VVER-TOI project. The latter is a further development of the water-water power reactor VVER-1200, which today is unmatched anyway.

However, to win, you need to constantly develop. And "VVER-TOI" will become the next step of our country to "conquer" the market of nuclear of technologies... Thus, everything that is possible has been optimized in the new reactor - from the design process to plant control. All this will allow the construction of modern nuclear power plants in a record time of 40 months.

At the same time, the turbine created at LMZ will not stop in its development. On its basis, they promise to build a unit capable of operating in a turbine unit with a unit capacity of 1600-1800 MW.