On June 2 at 7:58 the power unit №3 of the Novovoronezh NPP was plugged in after the completion of scheduled maintenance (BPD).

The power unit №3 was placed in preventative maintenance on April 28. Outage duration was 30.8 days, which is 4 days less than the scheduled dates. During this period, the power unit №3 produced 19.2 thousand MWh of electricity, resulting in additional revenue from the production of electricity-plan was 39,444,000 rubles.

Shortening of PPR of the power unit №3 has been achieved by the implementation of a production system of the «Rosatom», and high professionalism of centralized repair workshop of the NovNPP and the staff of the "Atomenergoremont."

During the power outage planned repairs of reactor refueling, maintenance of turbines, steam generator overhaul 3PG-5 and the main circulation pump 3GTSN-4 was made on the power unit №3.

Repair campaign was conducted with high quality of work, safety rules and regulations.

The power units № 4-5 of the Novovoronezh NPP are operating in a given mode. There are no violations of limits and conditions of power safe operation.

The Novovoronezhskaya nuclear power plant is a branch of 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 station is head – 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, No. No. 3, 4 power units with VVER-440 reactors, the power unit No. 5 with the VVER-1000 reactor. The first power unit was launched in 1964, the second – in the 1969, third – in the 1971, fourth – the 1972, fifth – 1979.

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

Average values of a radiation background in settlements of a 30-km zone round the Novovoronezhskaya nuclear power plant corresponded to level of natural background values, characteristic for the Central European Part of Russia.

Current information about a radiation situation near the nuclear power plant in Russia and other objects of the nuclear industry is provided on a site www.russianatom.ru.