Workers have completed the construction of the concrete foundation pit for Unit 8 at Russia’s Leningrad nuclear power station.
First nuclear safety-related concrete is scheduled to be poured for the VVER-1200 plant, known both as Leningrad-8 and Leningrad 2-4, next year.
Rosenergoatom, the nuclear power plant operating division of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said construction of the pit took about two months and was completed two-and-a-half months ahead of schedule.
The work was carried out by Titan-2, the general contractor for the construction of new power units at Leningrad, 70 km to the west of the city centre of Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland.