ASE Group (Rosatom) plans to commission the first unit of the Novovoronezh II (also known as Novovoronezh-6) nuclear power plant in western Russia in the summer 2016.
The company has started to load fuel assembly in the reactor and has launched the "active phase" of the loading process. Russian regulator Rostechnadzor issued the operating licence for Novovoronezh-6 on 23 March, thus permitting first criticality and eventual commercial operation of the unit.
Two 1,114 MW AES-2006 pressurized water reactors are under construction on the Novovoronezh site, where three reactors are operational (two 385 MW units and and one 950 MW unit) and two are being decommissioned. The construction of the Novovoronezh II units 1 and 2, also known as Novovoronezh units 6 and 7, began in June 2008 and July 2009, respectively. The new units are expected to be commissioned in the summer 2016 and in 2019, respectively.
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