The first fuel assembly has been loaded into the reactor of the Leningrad 2-2 nuclear power plant and the physical startup process begun, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced.
Rosatom said physical startup of the Generation III+ VVER unit, under construction on the Gulf of Finland, began on 19 July.
The company said 163 fuel assemblies will be loaded into the reactor core. The fuel was manufactured by Rosatom nuclear fuel subsidiary Tvel at its plant in Novosibirsk in Siberia, southern Russia.
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