Construction sites. Construction workers finished installing the second tier of the inner containment shell (ICS) at the second power unit of Egypt’s El Dabaa NPP. The installation operations were completed ahead of schedule. “Today we have put in place the second ICS tier at Unit 2. This opens us a door to the beginning of reinforcement, formwork installation and subsequent concreting of the tier, which will be one of the key events at Unit 2 in 2025,” said Alexey Kononenko, Vice President of ASE and Director of El Dabaa Construction Project. The inner containment shell is a cylinder-shaped structure that houses the nuclear reactor and primary circuit equipment. The second ICS tier consists of 12 sections. Each section is 12 meters long and 14 meters high, weighing from 60 to 90 tonnes. The El Dabaa NPP will have four 1,200 MW power units with Russian-designed VVER-1200 reactors.