Probe into Kalinin 4 construction accident
31 March 2009
A crane accident in which two workers were killed during the construction of the Kalinin 4 nuclear power reactor is being investigated.
A Nuclear.Ru report said an investigation is to be undertaken by regional authorities in the wake of the accident.
Quoting a report from the Interregional Investigation Office of Udomlya region, Nuclear.Ru specified that at about 2.30 pm on 27 March a contractor was using an Ivanovets truck crane on a Kamaz chassis to unload valve equipment from a tractor, which had two workers from the same contractor in its cab. The truck crane tilted and its arm crushed the tractor cab, killing both workers at the scene.
An investigation is underway, with a decision on whether to bring crimal charges to follow.
Kalinin 4 is to be a VVER pressuized water reactor producing about 950 MWe when complete in 2011. Construction work was first started in 1986 but was suspended until a 2007 program to boost Russian nuclear, starting with the completion of such stalled projects.