Sogin installs a crane needed to dismantle boilers at Latina power plant
12 November 2025
At Sogin’s Latina nuclear power plant, a 45-metre-high lifting crane has been installed to handle the metal parts produced by the upcoming operations for dismantling the six steam boilers.
The boilers are red steel structures, 24 meters high, with a diameter of 5.7 meters, weighing 600 tons each, located outside the reactor building, which during operation transferred heat from carbon dioxide to water, producing the steam necessary to activate the turbines and produce electricity.
The project involved the use of a high-precision lifting system, called ‘jack - up’, which uses hydraulic jacks that, operated in a synchronised manner, allowed the crane to be self-assembled, gradually bringing it to the top.
The operation entailed placing 240 “boxes” vertically starting from the 4 bases where the jacks were installed. The lifting was handled by specialised personnel, who worked in shifts on a continuous 24-hour basis.
A technological choice, adopted internationally in the most complex industrial sites, which testifies to Sogin's desire to combine innovation, structural precision and operational efficiency to carry out this work in complete safety, having to operate in a restricted space between the control building and the reactor building of the plant.
The project now plans to complete the isolation of the six steam generators from the external environment by installing special panels and metal profiles.
At the end, each boiler will be cut into nine cylindrical sections, working progressively from top to bottom.
The cylindrical sections will be brought to the ground using a lifting crane and transferred to the materials treatment station, which has already been built, where they will be treated and decontaminated using high-tech robotic systems.
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