The No. 5 unit of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant, starting commercial operations on September 26, 1980, is the first power-generating unit with a 1000 MW VVER in our country. The assimilation of its power gave invaluable experience to designers, builders, and equipment manufacturers; this experience was taken into account in the design solutions for next-generation power-generating units. A large volume of work on increasing the efficiency, reliability, and safety was performed over a 30-year service life. At present, the power-generating unit has been shut down for a major overhaul for upgrading according a program for extending the service life by 25–30 years.
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Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the startup of the first power-generating unit of a nuclear power plant with VVER-1000.
Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 109, No. 5, pp. 262–267, November, 2010.
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Vitkovskii, I.L. Experience in operating and upgrading the No. 5 unit of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant – practical base for developing a reliable source of nuclear energy. At Energy 109, 321–327 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-011-9362-z
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