Fitters installed on a regular place in the reactor vessel of a new 4-th power unit of Rostovskaya NPP. This is one of the key events in the construction of the unit, which, for example, will give the opportunity to provide energy security of the Crimea.

"The installation of the reactor vessel indicates that in General construction work is stopped and starts the installation of the necessary equipment ", - said the Director of Rostov NPP Andrey Salnikov, whose words are quoted in the message of Department of information and public relations of the station.

a day one power Unit with this type of reactor (VVER-1000) produces 24 million kilowatt-hours of electrical energy. The start of the unit? 4 of Rostov NPP, scheduled for 2017, will provide full energy security of the South of Russia, including the Crimean Peninsula, the report says.

Before the end of the current year, Installers are supposed to install in the design position of all four steam generators of power unit and to supply the voltage to your needs that will enable you to start the commissioning.

Rostov NPP is a branch of JSC " Concern Rosenergoatom ". The company is located on the shores Tsimlyansk reservoir 13, 5 kilometers from Volgodonsk. NPPs are operated on a reactor type VVER-1000 with an installed capacity of 1000 megawatts. Unit? 1 put into industrial operation in 2001, power Unit? 2 - in 2010, the Unit? 3 put into commercial operation in September 2015.

last Friday in the Kherson region of Ukraine were supplying electricity to Crimea, currently supplies electric power to the Peninsula with Ukraine is completely finished. In Crimea introduced a state of emergency, schedules of emergency shutdowns of electricity and water supply. For the life of the inhabitants of the Crimea in the conditions of the electric power shortage and rolling blackouts on the Peninsula are delivered to power generators.

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