OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2012. The stand unit for the Scientific and Research Institute is prepared for commissioning by the Holding's subsidiary, Sosnovoborelektromontazh, OJSC. The Director General of FSUE NITI awarded a commendation to the employees of the electrical installation organization for successful work performance.

While preparing the testing stand for commissioning, it being a prototype of KV-1 nuclear power units, the specialists from the holding's electrical installation organization performed the following work:

• Installation of aerosol activity system for KV-1 stand;

• Installation of routine lighting networks;

• A net switchover unit and a voltage monitor Shch 330/220V were installed;

• Installation of electric equipment for the system of process water supply and equipment cooling;

• Installation of BOP power supply system of KV-1 stand;

• Installation of the stand's reliable power supply;

• Power supply of the pumps;

The works were performed in accordance with the contract between the Institute and the lead general contractor of the Holding – JSC CONCERN TITAN-2. By December 2015, in accordance with this agreement a stage-by stage retrofitting of equipment, process systems, electrical and computer networks will have been performed, as well as other types of work for the total amount of 230 million roubles. The project customer is Rosatom State Corporation.

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 and performs the full cycle of building and assembly work: from development of design documentation to the facility commissioning. The Holding consists of more than 20 organizations and employs about 4,000 employees with more than 40-year-experience in construction of unique and super-complicated facilities. The management company and the key engineering business-unit of the holding is the Company JSC CONCERN TITAN-2.

Aleksandrov Scientific Research Technological Institute, FSUE is located in the town of Sosnovyi Bor (Leningrad region) and is Rosatom State Corporation's plant. This is the only scientific and technological centre for comprehensive tests of the marine nuclear power plants and bringing them to the required level of reliability and safety using prototype stands.

On the basis of the Institute the process is going on, which is aimed to create the North-Western nuclear power scientific and industrial centre including the power unit with a reactor of new generation, a large-scale testing facility for comprehensive thermophysical and thermohydraulic tests, the stand for investigation of accidents with heavy consequences, training sets of different grade, as well as the centre for emergency situation analysis etc.