A crane accident in which two workers were killed during the construction of the Kalinin 4 nuclear power reactor is being investigated.
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A Nuclear.Ru report said an investigation is to be undertaken by regional authorities in the wake of the accident.
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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.
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An investigation is underway, with a decision on whether to bring crimal charges to follow.
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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听such stalled projects.
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