During a regular visit to the Kursk NPP-2, Andrey Petrov, the CEO of the Rosenergoatom Joint-Stock Company, evaluated the progress in the construction of the first and the second 3+ generation Kursk NPP-2 VVER-TOI power blocks.

As of today, the production of steel fiber reinforced concrete panels as retained shuttering has begun at the concreting and shuttering workshop.

‘The first time we will be using these panels is for building the nuclear power blocks. Using steel fiber reinforced concrete panels will help us cut the time lines when erecting the building constructions of the Kursk NPP-2’, Viacheslav Fedyukin, the Kursk NPP director, said.

The first power block of the Kursk NPP-2 is facing preparatory activities for the reactor containment dome pre-load system tendon gallery floor concreting.

As a part of the 2nd power block’s base slab concreting work, the OOO Trest RosSAM team has finised putting the concrete into the fifth section. Totally, over 12 thousand cubic meters of concrete have been placed. Once the concrete is hard enough, the sixth and the last section will be filled in.

The concreting of the 2nd power block’s skeleton walls, which is scheduled for July, will be the next step in the construction following the concreting of the base slab.