The steel dome of the outer containment building has been completed at Unit 1 of Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power station, project contractor Rosatom said.
The Russian state-owned nuclear corporation is supplying four of its Generation III+ VVER-1200 pressurise water reactor units for Ankara’s first nuclear power station, on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast.
Rosatom said the 147-tonne top section of the dome took six hours to lift in place. Workers installed the lower section of the dome in August 2024.