The RusHydro hydroelectricity company will test the Siberian Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant spillway in September, a member of the company's executive board said on Thursday.
An accident occurred at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant on Siberia's Yenisei River in August 2009, killing 75 people and destroying a turbine hall. The accident also destroyed three hydropower units and damaged the other seven. The plant is under reconstruction.
"We should be ready to use the spillway in winter. We plan to test it in September," Yury Gorbenko said during an Internet conference organized by RIA Novosti.
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