OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2012. The total weight of equipment is 622 tons. The most part of the set is out of gauge cargo and it was delivered by sea across the Gulf of Finland.

After unloading the equipment was delivered by special automobile transport to the special site intended for unloading and storage of heavy-weight & large-size equipment of Leningrad NPP-2.

The rest of equipment – the reactor head and the reactor pit will be delivered to the construction site of Leningrad NPP by motor transport.

The reactor equipment including the WWER-1200 reactor vessel, a compensator and a protection unit for the pipes of the power plant under construction was manufactured at Izhora Plants in accordance with the order of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The key process equipment of NPP has a long cycle of production. The Contract for manufacturing and supply of power production for Leningrad NPP-2 was signed in 2008. Within the frameworks of the contract Izhora plants will supply the vessel equipment for two power units of the plant under construction: Reactor vessels with vessel internals, upper units, pressurizers.

Currently, TITAN-2 holding builders have already started the reactor dry protection works. The next stage will be installation of the reactor's supporting truss and of the polar crane which will perform installation of the WWER-1200 reactor.

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. The organizations perform the full cycle of building and assembly work: from development of design documentation to the facility commissioning. The Holding consists of more than 15 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.

Construction of LNPP-2 is performed within the frameworks of the Federal Program for Development of Nuclear Energy Industrial Complex of Russia in 2007-2012 and Prospectively up to Year 2015. TITAN-2 Holding is one of the main contractors for 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 works for all the buildings of the turbine island of power unit No. 1 at Leningrad NPP-2.