The turbine installation at Rostov Unit 4 is drawing to a close. The turbine is 90% ready, says Viktor Sivolapov, Head Engineer at VdMU, a company mounting the equipment in the turbine island of the unit. Installation of a high-pressure cylinder cap is one of the last steps before mounting the turbine on the barring gear. “We have sealed all the four cylinders of the turbine. To emplace the turbine, we only need to mount thrust bearings and check the barring gear. Installation of the thermal equipment is running ahead of schedule, which almost totally rules out the risk of delay,” Mr. Sivolapov says. A 1,100 MW is being mounted at a new unit of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant. The turbine will be fully assembled and mounted on the barring gear in May 2017 to signal that the secondary circuit equipment is ready to generate electricity. Unit 4 is scheduled to go critical in 2017.