OREANDA-NEWS. Installers from the JSC "Sesame" proceeded an operation of lifting and installing of the two 110-ton beams of reactor compartment polar crane on a regular place on the power unit №4, which is under construction. It is a basic metal crane, by witch will be made the installation of all heavy equipment in the reactor compartment later, including steam generators and reactor vessel itself. Due to the movement of the crane on a circular path crane, a polar crane has the ability to perform all loading and unloading operations anywhere in the reactor compartment.

"We previously conducted test of the crane beams installation on the site of the pre-assembly. We mounted under crane runways for it and we have just implemented the lift of the polar crane elements for final assembly. We are expecting a reactor vessel on the construction site with the beginning of the navigation season in 2015, it will be brought by the river by the JSC "Izhora Plants" and it will be installed on a regular place with the help of this crane like other large equipment elements, "- said the chief engineer of the "Sesame" Mikhail Pinchuk about the importance of this operation,.

The power unit №4 start-up is scheduled for 2017.

The radiation background at the plant and the surrounding area is unchanged and is at the level, which corresponds to the normal operation of power and do not exceed the natural background values.

The Rostovskaya nuclear power plant is a branch of the JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". The nuclear station is located on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir in 13,5 km from Volgodonsk. There are two power units with VVER-1000 reactors with an installed capacity of 1000 MWt operating at the nuclear station. The power unit No. 1 was put into commercial operation in 2001, the power unit No. 2 - in December, 2010.