Kalinin nuclear power plant
Stroytransgaz has been chosen to participate in the federal target program Development of the Nuclear Energy Industry of Russia for 2007–2010 and the Future to 2015. The company will carry out construction and assembly work for energy block №4 of the Kalinin nuclear power plant. Energy generating capacity of the facility is 1,000 MW.
The Federal Agency for Atomic Energy is customer for the project. Its general contractor is the federal governmental enterprise NIAEP. Stroytransgaz is primary subcontractor for the work at the energy block.
Stroytransgaz will perform the following:
- Building-assembly and complete renovation-reconstruction work at the reactor compartments for energy block No. 4
- Building-assembly work at the start-up complex of energy block No. 4: machine and deaerator area, cooling system incorporating a cooling tower, pumping station at the cooling tower with influent channel, water pipelines for turbine and non-critical water supply, closed discharge channel, and other components
Work is expected to be completed in 2011.
Background
The nuclear power plant currently provides more than 60 percent of the electric energy produced in Tver Oblast. After energy block №4 enters exploitation in 2011, that indicator will rise to 67 percent.