OREANDA-NEWS. On November 12, 2007 symbolic ceremony of concreting the force plate of the floor panel of the reactor department of the 4th unit of Kalinin NPP took place in Udomlia, reported the press-centre of Kalinin NPP.
 
The governor of Tver region D.Zelenin, the acting director general of Rosenergoatom Concern A.Lokshin, the director of Kalinin NPP L.Martynovchenko and other officials are expected to attend the ceremony.

The construction of the 4th unit of Kalinin NPP will guarantee energy safety of Tvel region and Russia, as a whole. The project is part of the federal target program for the development of the nuclear industry of Russia in 2007–2010 and -2015. The unit is to be launched in 2011.

The project for the construction of the 3rd and 4th was approved by the Energy Ministry of the USSR in Oct 1985. The construction of unit 4 was stopped in June 1991.

A decade later the authorities of the Russian Federation realized that the project should be resumed.

Oct 22 2002 the Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation and the governor of Tver region signed a declaration of intention to resume the construction of unit 4 of Kalinin NPP.

Feb 16 2006 the deputy head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy I.Kamenskikh approved the decision.

In 2007 Government approved the enlargement of Kalinin NPP to 4000MW and the budget of the project. The project has been examined by the State Ecological Inspection. The general contractor is Nizhniy Novgorod Atomenergoproekt.

Sept 7 2007 the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control of the Russian Federation (Rostekhnadzor) licensed the project.