The assembly of component support for the installation of the second power blocks inner reactor containment dome’s first circle has been completed at the Kursk NPP-2 construction site. That said, all 13 key milestones planned for 2019, including two governmental assignments – the installation of the 1st power block’s molten core catcher and the 2nd power block’s reactor foundation frame concreting - have been delivered.

The component support is a temporary structure required for the next step, which is the armor block ceiling assembly at minus 1,850 meters. Following that, the construction team will go on to concrete the ceilings and install the reactor containment dome, and the component support will be extracted. The total weight of the support is 32 thousand tons.

‘The construction has gained strong momentum. This year, we have already placed over 1.5 million cubic meters of sand, used over 16 thousand tons of armature and around 130 thousand cubic meters of concrete’, арматуры, the deputy chief engineer of the capital construction department and the head of construction control department, said. ‘We have completed the key milestones, and there is still one month until the end of the year. We are commencing the concrete blinding for the first power block’s cooler foundation, and the foundation plate armoring is nearing completion at the turbine building of the second nuclear island. There is always a lot of work at the construction site’.

4,590 people are involved in the construction of the Kursk NPP-2, which is higher than planned. The majority of works are carried out by OOO Trest RosSEM, AO Titan-2 Company, AO NIKIMT-Atomstroy, OOO SMU-1, PAO EnergoSpecMontazh.