On March 19, 2014 at the Novovoronezh NPP regular general emergency antifire training (PET).

PET is conducted in accordance with the approved by the station director «Schedule emergency, fire drills and training for action in emergency situations with the staff of the Novovoronezh NPP in 2014».

Its goal is development of practical skills of interaction of the operating personnel shifts, enterprise management and fire brigade units in a complex emergency at the station. According to the plan of the training nuclear engineers must eliminate conditional beyond design basis accidents at the facility, including a joint venture with fire extinguishing conventional fire.

In PET will take part: operational staff change «B» of the 1,2,3 ques and foremost of the electrical circuitry of the Novovoronezh NPP, firemen of the FPS Emergencies Ministry and group of operational engineering support personnel shifts.

Administration of the Novovoronezh NPP refers to residents of the city Novovoronezh and the Voronezh region with request to stay calm and be understanding.

Conducting training is an integral part of the safe operation of any nuclear power plant. Their goal is to develop actions for the protection of the nuclear power plant staff and the habitants.

The power units of the Novovoronezh NPP during training will work in normal mode. There will be no interference in their work related to exercise.

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) on work at the moment.

The radiation background around an arrangement of nuclear station and the adjacent territory is at the level corresponding to normal operation of power units, and doesn't exceed natural background values, typical 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.