24.08.2017
Novovoronezh NPP Information and Public Relations Administration
Novovoronezh NPP will continue scientific and technical cooperation with Gundremmingen NPP (Germany)
Gundremmingen NPP personnel (Germany) has visited Novovoronezh NPP within the Agreement on Bilateral Cooperation between the nuclear power plants.
The delegation of German specialists that arrived to share experience was headed by the Gundremmingen Plant Manager Michael Trobitz.
“We are looking for different technical approaches to solve problems we run into in the process of operation. It is very pleasant to watch over the development of nuclear power industry. Here in Novovoronezh it is ongoing. But unfortunately we have a different situation in Germany”, he told.
During the meeting the Novovoronezh Plant Manager Vladimir Povarov told his colleagues from Germany about the history of the Nuclear Power Plant, its state and main technical and economical indicators, about the new and most powerful power unit in Russia – unit No 6 with VVER-1200 reactor, commissioned on 27 February, 2017.
“Thanking to the NPP our town becomes better. Old sports and social facilities of Novovoronezh are reconstructed, and new ones are being built”, Vladimir Povarov said.
The guests have visited all Plant’s operating power units and the construction site of power unit No 2 of NVNPP-2, got acquainted with the training centre containing the full-scale simulators of power units No 5 and 6.
The cooperation between the two NPPs will continue: the visit has ended with the signing of the bilateral Agreement prolongation.
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 – 1980. There are three power units (power units No.1, 2 were stopped in 1984 and 1990 respectively) in work at the moment.
The power units Nos 1 and 2 were stopped in 1984 and 1990, respectively. The power unit No 3 was stopped in 2016 for decommissioning activities. The power unit No 1 of Novovoronezh NPP-2 was commissioned on 27 February, 2017. The power unit No 2 of Novovoronezh NPP-2 is in the middle of construction and installation works; its commissioning is planned for 2018.
The up-to-date information on the nuclear environment close to the Russian NOOs and other nuclear objects is available at www.russianatom.ru
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