On October 10, 2014 at 4 h 25 min the power unit №5 was displayed at full capacity after a short stop.

The power unit №5 has been disconnected from the net on October 5, 2014 on the application to correct the defect in the thermal mechanical equipment.

There were no violations of limits and conditions of safe operation of the Novovoronezh NPP.

The event is not essential for security. The rating on a scale INES is out of scale.

The power unit №3 is operating normally, The power unit №4 has been on preventative maintenance since September 20, 2014.

Construction and installation work at the power units №6 and 7 are being conducted as planned.

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.

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

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.