OREANDA-NEWS. February 21, 2012. An investment project aimed at extension of service life of the fourth reactor at Leningrad nuclear power plant where holding Titan-2 was the general contractor. January 30 Rosatom issued a decision on accomplishment of the investment project.

In 2008 TITAN-2 holding won a tender and signed a turnkey contract with the value of more than 17 bln. rubles for the full set of  work aimed to retrofit power unit No.4 and to prolong  its lifetime.

Within the frameworks of design and survey work more than 5,000 detail design sets were issued; several dozens of thousands of equipment items were supplied to provide the power unit’s startup facility.

All the power unit safety systems were restructured at the facility, as well as the unit’s control room, emergency control room, and  a back-up diesel power plant. 199 process channels were replaced, the turbine rebucketing was completed, as well as some other works performed. As a result, in the end of 2010, Leningradskaya  NPP successfully obtained Rostekhnadzor’s license to prolong the life service period of power unit No.4 by 15 years – until 2025.

TITAN-2 Holding is the largest Group of Companies in the North-West of Russia which erects the most important facilities of nuclear industry and power engineering and performs the full cycle of building and assembly works: from development of design documentation to the facility commissioning. The Holding consists of more than 20 organizations and employs about 4,500 employees with more than 40-year-experience in construction of unique and super-complicated facilities. The main general contractor of the Holding is CONCERN TITAN-2 , JSC