OREANDA-NEWS. The Novovoronezh NPP power unit №5 was displayed at full capacity after completion of repair on December 19, 2014 at 4.00.

The Turbogenerator №13 (TG-13) of the power unit №5 was stopped on November 21, in accordance with the application filed in the prescribed manner, to fix the problem in the cooling system. The power unit №5 of the Novovoronezh NPP worked on 50% capacity.

The turbogenerator №13 received permission to be included into the network on December 18. The thermal of the power unit reached 100% capacity, electric capacity reached 1000 MW at 4.00 on December 19.

Power units №3, №4 and №5 are operating normally. There are no violations of limits and conditions of safe operation at the Novovoronezh NPP.

Construction and installation works at power units №6 and №7 are being carried out in a planned manner.

The Novovoronezh nuclear power plant is a branch of the JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". The station is located on the bank of the Don River in 42 km to the south of Voronezh. It is the Russia's first nuclear power plant with VVER reactors (water-to-water power reactors of case type with regular water under pressure). Each of five reactors of the station can be a main one - a prototype of serial power reactors: the power unit No. 1 with the VVER-210 reactor, the power unit No. 2 with the VVER-365 reactor, the No. 3, 4 power units with the VVER-440 reactors, the power unit No. 5 with the VVER-1000 reactor. The first power unit was launched in 1964, the second - in 1969, third - in 1971, fourth - 1972, fifth - 1979.

There are three power units (power units No.1, 2 were stopped in 1984 and 1990 respectively) in work at the moment.

Construction of the innovative power units № 6 and № 7 with the capacity of 1200 MW has been done since 2207 at the Novovoronezh NPP site.

Average values of radiation background correspond to level of natural background values in the Central European Part of Russia in settlements of a 30-km zone round the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant.