calendar>>November 21. 2019 Juche 108
Construction of Tanchon Power Station Makes Headway
Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- The construction of the Tanchon Power Station is progressing apace in the DPRK.

By dint of great army-people unity, the soldier-builders and shock brigade members carried out the project for building generator room, emergency valve room, surge tank and other objects of the Tanchon Power Station No. 5 at 80 percent. They also made a big progress in such project as rock excavation, dam concrete tamping and building of intake tower.

10-odd units in charge of the main waterway tunnel have pushed ahead with the projects for tunnel extension and concrete coating in three dimensions after driving through pilot tunnels.

In particular, soldier-builders finished the extension project for the main waterway tunnel in thousands of meters-long section. And they have ensured the full operation of equipment like belt conveyor, concrete mixer, vibrating compactor and large crane to carry out hundreds of cubic meters of concrete tamping, over 900 cubic meters to the maximum, in the project for building dam and intake tower every day.

Builders in charge of the dam construction of the Tanchon Power Station No. 6, too, completed the construction of grit basin by introducing efficient and rational methods.

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