24 Jun (NucNet): First concrete has been poured for the Rostov-4 (previously known as Volgodonsk-4) nuclear unit in Russia.
Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, said the new unit will be a type V-320 VVER reactor with a gross generating capacity of 1,100 megawatts.
Rosenergoatom said that some 300 cubic metres of concrete had so far been poured at the site.
In June 2009, Nizhniy Novgorod Atomenergoproekt, a subsidiary of state-owned engineering company Atomenergoprom, won the tender as principal contractor for the construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Rostov plant.
The two units already in commercial operation at the Rostov site are both 950-megawatt pressurised water reactors.
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