Another emergency response training with fire fighting equipment rig was held in accordance with the annual schedule on March 3 at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant.
 
All tasks, which had been assigned to personnel, were successfully worked out during the training.

The exercise was attended by the personnel of the NVNPP blocks both operating and under construction, heads of departments, as well as the Federal Fire Service on Emergency Situations Ministry of the Russian Federation.

Such exercises are held at the Novovoronezh NPP regularly to maintain high professional level of personnel in the interaction with the management of departments and enterprises, as well as fire brigades FS-14 in complicated emergency situation.

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.

Construction of two innovative power units №6 and №7 with 1200 MW capacity has been done since 2007 at the Novovoronezh NPP.