OREANDA-NEWS. On March 23 2007 the company finished the fueling of the reactor: a total of 163 fuel rods loaded. The final assembly will last till mid April and will be followed by the physical launch: warming up of the primary cooling circuit, launch of the reactor at minimum controlled capacity and testing of the active zone, reported the press-centre of  Rosenergoatom.This stage is scheduled for the first half of May.

The contract for the construction of Tianwan NPP was signed in 1997: Russia has pledged to build two units with WWER-1000 with a total capacity of 2000 MW. The general contractor is Atomstroyexport. Tianwan is the biggest project of the Russian-Chinese economic cooperation. It is also the biggest NPP project in China. Experts say that WWER-1000 reactor is very safe. It has deeply echeloned protection system. Atomstroyexport is the leading Russian organization implementing inter-governmental agreements on NPP construction abroad. Presently, it is the only company in the world to simultaneously build 7 units in China, India, Iran and Bulgaria.