Concreting of the foundation plates of the reactor building and turbine building has been completed at the Akkuyu-2 nuclear power plant under construction in Turkey, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
About 2,400 tonnes of reinforcement were laid in the reactor building foundation and more than 17,000 cubic metres of concrete was poured. Rosatom said the weight of the finished reactor building will be about 470,000 tonnes, which means the the foundation will hold a mass equal to double weight of the world’s largest ocean cruise liner.
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