Scheduled emergency response exercise with the departure of fire equipment, during which staff will work out firefighting skills in a contingency situation, will take place on February 25, 2015 at the Novovoronezh NPP.
 
The training session will be attended by the operating personnel of the NVNPP blocks both in operation and under construction, heads of departments, as well as the Federal Fire Service of Emergency Situations Ministry of the Russian Federation.

Such exercises are held at the Novovoronezh NPP regularly to maintain high professional level of personnel with managers of the enterprise and fire brigade units in a complicated emergency situation.

Training will take place without the intervention of the  equipment operation.

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 and 7 with capacity of 1,200 MW has been done since 2007 at the Novovoronezh NPP.