First Concrete for Kursk-II’s Third Unit Set for December

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 8, Pouring of the first concrete for unit 3 of Russia’s Kursk-II Nuclear Power Plant is scheduled for December 2025, Plant Director Alexander Uvakin said during a meeting with the Acting Governor of the region, Alexander Khinstein.

Kursk-II will replace the currently operating Kursk NPP, which comprises four ageing RBMK reactors (two of which are now closed). Units 1&2, currently under construction, will have VVER-TOI reactors – a development of the VVER-1200 reactor design. The VVER-TOI has increased power and improved technical and economic indicators, as well as increased resistance to extreme.

In March 2023, a round-table meeting held in the Kursk region to discuss the safety of Kursk-II units 3&4 reported positively.

The physical launch of Kursk-II unit 1 is now scheduled for 28 April 2025, according to materials presented by the station management at the meeting with Khinstein. “The total degree of readiness of units 1&2 is about 70%,” the presentation noted. Earlier in the press service of nuclear utility Rosenergoatom had said the physical launch of unit 1 was scheduled for late 2024. However, Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk region caused work to be suspended for some time.