OREANDA-NEWS. November 14, 2007. a solemn ceremony of concrete placement into force plate of reactor compartment of Block-house No. 4 of Kalininskaya Nuclear Power Plant took place in the town Udomlya of the Tver Region.

Construction of this power unit is included into the Federal Target Program of Development of nuclear energy industrial complex of Russia for 2007-2010, and in the long term up to the year 2015. Construction shall be carried out under the order of the Federal Agency on Nuclear Energy. 

General Contractor of the Project is FGUP NIAEP. PJSC Stroytransgaz is the principal contractor on construction and installation works at facilities of power unit start-up complex (reactor compartment, equipment room, water conduits, catch-water drains etc.).

Governor of the Tver Region Dmitriy Zelenin, Acting General Director of the Trust Rosenergoatom Alexander Lokshin, Director of Kalininskaya Nuclear Power Plant Leonid Martynovchenko, First Deputy Head of Energy Construction Department of PJSC Stroytransgaz Stanyslav Antipov participated in the ceremony.

In his opening statement Dmitriy Zelenin pointed out the importance of the Project both for overall growth of power production by Russian nuclear power plants and solving of social issues in the region.

Alexander Lokshin qualified this event as ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ in his speech at the ceremony. He also expressed positiveness in successful implementation of extensive and ambitious program on nuclear power industry development which can make a considerable contribution into development of the country.