The inner steel containment dome has been completed and installed at the Kursk 2-2 nuclear plant under construction in western Russia, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
Rosatom said the inner dome for Kursk 2-2 consists of a lower and an upper part with respective weights of 220 and 256 tonnes. The two components were installed separately and later welded together.
A statement Rosatom said the inner steel containment installation makes it possible to start preparations for the installation of the reactor vessel, steam generators and the main circulation pipeline. The first in a series of tasks will be to connect and start up the polar crane.
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