Novovoronezh 3

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	VVER V-179
Owner	Joint Stock Company 'Concern Rosenergoatom'
Operator	Joint Stock Company 'Concern Rosenergoatom'

Timeline

Construction Start	Saturday, 1 July 1967
First Criticality	Wednesday, 22 December 1971
First Grid Connection	Monday, 27 December 1971
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 29 June 1972
Permanent Shutdown	Sunday, 25 December 2016

Specifications

Capacity Net	385 MWe
Capacity Gross	417 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1375 MWt
Design Net Capacity	385 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1971	385	87	1.00	-	-	-	-	-
1972	385	7121	1705.19	89.80	72.90	72.90	71.90	71.90
1973	385	7114	1877.19	81.20	57.90	62.90	55.70	61.10
1974	385	7990	2629.98	91.20	79.00	69.40	78.00	67.80
1975	385	6695	1967.94	76.40	58.00	66.10	58.40	65.10
1976	385	7534	2221.44	85.80	66.60	66.20	65.70	65.30
1977	385	7851	2786.27	89.60	82.10	69.10	82.60	68.40
1978	385	7962	2903.78	90.90	85.80	71.70	86.10	71.10
1979	385	7477	2632.90	85.40	77.90	72.50	78.10	72.00
1980	385	8246	2844.59	94.10	84.20	73.90	84.30	73.50
1981	385	7934	2827.19	90.60	84.00	74.90	83.80	74.60
1982	385	8037	2770.46	91.80	82.60	75.70	82.20	75.30
1983	385	7158	2470.04	81.70	74.10	75.50	73.20	75.10
1984	385	8185	3056.46	93.20	89.80	76.70	90.40	76.40
1985	385	8195	3003.82	93.60	88.90	77.60	89.10	77.30
1986	385	8048	2705.54	91.90	80.50	77.80	80.20	77.50
1987	417	6361	2321.90	72.60	66.50	77.00	63.60	76.50
1988	385	8110	2906.14	92.30	91.00	77.80	85.90	77.10
1989	385	6040	1984.57	69.00	66.00	77.20	58.80	76.10
1990	385	8611	2767.44	98.30	84.40	77.60	82.10	76.40
1991	385	5176	1614.01	59.10	48.70	76.10	47.90	74.90
1992	385	6991	2580.38	79.60	76.20	76.10	76.30	75.00
1993	385	4991	1810.48	57.00	53.00	75.00	53.70	74.00
1994	385	7300	2714.59	83.30	79.00	75.20	80.50	74.30
1995	385	3945	1364.01	45.00	40.60	73.70	40.40	72.90
1996	385	5510	1946.95	62.70	57.10	73.00	57.60	72.20
1997	385	7075	2624.03	80.80	77.40	73.20	77.80	72.40
1998	385	6822	2535.60	77.90	74.30	73.30	75.20	72.60
1999	385	5669	1919.28	64.70	57.10	72.70	56.90	72.00
2000	385	7131	2621.49	81.20	77.20	72.80	77.50	72.20
2001	385	3529	1293.38	40.30	38.20	71.70	38.40	71.00
2002	385	6415	2431.89	73.20	71.90	71.70	72.10	71.10
2003	385	6236	2335.05	71.20	68.90	71.60	69.20	71.00
2004	385	7282	2313.63	82.90	69.70	71.50	68.40	70.90
2005	385	7233	2472.06	82.60	74.20	71.60	73.30	71.00
2006	385	7621	2684.04	87.00	80.10	71.80	79.60	71.20
2007	385	6153	1713.46	70.20	52.30	71.30	50.80	70.70
2008	385	7584	1866.62	86.30	57.20	70.90	55.20	70.20
2009	385	5295	1835.47	60.40	55.30	70.50	54.40	69.80
2010	385	7746	2467.35	88.40	74.20	70.60	73.20	69.90
2011	385	7739	2971.24	88.40	87.10	71.00	88.10	70.40
2012	385	6476	2486.31	73.70	72.50	71.00	73.50	70.50
2013	385	7556	2893.48	86.30	84.70	71.40	85.80	70.80
2014	385	8021	3071.18	91.60	89.70	71.80	91.00	71.30
2015	385	8030	3051.74	91.70	89.70	72.20	90.50	71.70
2016	385	7965	2977.64	92.20	89.50	72.60	89.50	72.10