The 165-tonne steel reactor base plate has been installed at Russia’s Brest-OD-300 pilot demonstration power plant at the site of the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk, southwest Siberia, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
Construction workers have also loaded the first part of the reactor pressure vessel into the reactor shaft, an enclosing structure that forms an additional barrier of protection, Rosatom said.
It said the work marks the start of major installation work at the world’s first Generation IV fast neutron reactor plant with a lead coolant.