OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2012. The work completion will be a starting point for equipment installation for the first turbogenerating set of NPP.

This summer, the builders from TITAN-2 Holding assembled the metal frame for the first power unit's turbine foundation at 16 m-mark using 300 tons of reinforcement . At the beginning of September 1,430 m3 of concrete was poured into it using a single pour method.

Immediately after the period of concrete getting mature and its strength development supposed to take several months, the specialists of the Holding's leading assembly organization, MSU-90, JSC will start to install the turbine plant К-1200-68/50 of power unit No. 1.

The foundation of the turbine building supported by the system of spring units assembled by the specialists is an important element in the building's design and is aimed to provide the low level of the turbine body vibration at working frequency, to reduce the vibration transferred to adjacent structures and to provide earthquake protection of structures.

TITAN-2 Holding is the largest Group of Companies in the North-West of Russia which erects the most important facilities of nuclear industry and power engineering. Its organizations perform the full cycle of building and assembly works: from development of design documentation to the facility commissioning. The Holding consists of more than 20 business units and employs about 4,000 employees.

TITAN-2 is one of contractors for building and assembly works in construction of power units 1 and 2 of Leningrad NPP-2. Prior to the end of 2012, the Holding builders are going to complete the construction part of works for all the buildings of the turbine island of power unit No. 1 at Leningrad NPP-2.

Installation and Construction Directorate No. 90 was formed in 1968 and it is the leading installation company in TITAN-2 Holding. The specialists of OJSC "MSU-90" perform all types of assembly for process equipment and pipelines, steel structures, including stainless steel metal facing, and welding work of any complexity. The organization has its own laboratory for quality control of welded units.