Tests were carried out for the purpose of checking the durability of the basic constructive elements of the crane, and also for checking the operation of all mechanisms and their brakes.
The structure of an inspection included representatives of the customer, the supplier, the assembly organization and supervisory authorities. Tests of the crane took place in a regular mode, with observance of all requirements of industrial safety.
Previously contract organizations carried out the main preparatory works – crane installation, electric equipment installation, and adjustment works. At all stages the works have passed under continuous control of divisions curators of Leningrad NPP-2, such as management of capital construction, shop of the centralized repair, electroshop, department of defectoscopy of metals and technical control, department of commissioning.
The electric bridge crane with a loading capacity of 440 t is intended for movement of superheavy freights in a turbine hall of the first power unit. It should carry out load-lifting operations not only during construction (transportation of the equipment and pipelines to a regular place, including installation of a generator stator total weight of 440 tones, installation of the capital and service equipment) and during power unit operation (at the repair of processing equipment and pipelines, including current, average and overhaul of the turbine plant), but also during the removal of the nuclear power plant from operation.
For the period of installation performance and construction works the bridge crane will be leased to JSC MSU-90