The core basket is a welded and machined stainless steel structure weighing about 80 tonnes and holds the reactor core. The structure also directs coolant into the reactor core. The heavy neutron reflector will weigh about 100 tonnes. The main component of upper internals, weighing about 80 tonnes, consists of a structure with guide tubes for the control rods. Škoda JS has already supplied similar components to Framatome for nuclear power plants in Olkiluoto in Finland and Taishan 1 in China.
-tk-