OREANDA-NEWS. Oct 2007 Bilibino NPP completed one more stage of the construction of its 4th cooling pond. The pond is necessary for prolonging the service life of the plant’s spent nuclear fuel storage and treatment system, reported the press-centre of Rosenergoatom.

The designer of the pond is Atomenergoproekt. The project was launched in 2002. The contractors are Energostroy and Hydrostroy.

At the first stage, the contractors built the auxiliary systems and an interim addition to the main building. 

At the second stage, they dismantled the construction structures and installed the floor slabs: six 34-tons slabs and a bed frame were delivered in 2006. It was hard to transport the slabs to the plant - bad weather and roads were the key obstacle. 

The slabs were shipped from the port of Zeleny Mys by Vatan Ltd (Magadan). In order to install the slabs the contractors built a special elevated road.

“90% of the work has already been done. We have already inspected the coating and are now preparing for installing platforms for technological equipment and control instrumentation. The project is to be completed in the third quarter of 2008,” says the head of the Capital Construction Department of Bilibino NPP Ivan Besedin.