OREANDA-NEWS. The turbine generator unit №13 of the power unit №5 was stopped because of the fault in the cooling system of the generator stator on February 10, 2015, at 11:42, in accordance with the permitted application of the Novovoronezh NPP filed in the prescribed manner. Power unit №5 running at 50% capacity.

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

The event is not essential for safety. It is based on the scale of INES as out of scale.

Construction and installation works at the power units №6 and 7 are being conducted routinely.

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 Novovoronezhskaya nuclear power plant.

The Novovoronezhskaya 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.

The construction of innovative power units №№6 7 with the capacity of 1,200 MW has been done since 2007 at the Novovoronezh NPP.