Central Institute for Continuing THE TRAINING COURSE VENUE ROSATOM CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING Education and Training (ROSATOM-CICE&T) Obninsk the cradle of Russian nuclear technology for peaceful use is the homeland o f the First-in-the-World nuclear power plant. EDUCATION AND TRAINING From education to competence building The city was founded in 1956. The famous Obninsk NPP was started up The Rosatom-CICE&T the only corporate education and training we pave the way to career success two years earlier, on June 26, 1954. institution of Rosatom in the eld of technical competence building I am happy that I had the opportunity to get acquainted with was established in 1967 for accumulation and transfer of best for nuclear professionals Your plant. I dipped into the future... practices in USSR nuclear sector. Jawaharlal Nehru, 1955 Obninsk is one of the major Russian science cities. In 2000, it was awarded the status of the First Science City of .

ROSATOM The First-in-the-World International Nuclear Power Plant, Obninsk Connected to the power grid on Training Course: June 26, 1954

Since 2010 Rosatom-CICE&T has been providing training for specialists of national nuclear infrastructure for the countries embarking on nuclear power Specics of State Scientic Centre of the Russian Federation Institute for Physics programmes. and Power Engineering named after A.I.Leypunsky (SSC RF-IPPE) At the 55-th Session of the IAEA General Conference Rosatom- founded in 1946 is the heart of fast reactor technology. CICE&T and Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC have signed practical WWER design: arrangements with IAEA on mutual support in establishing training The SSC RF-IPPE has been a scientic supervisor for the development courses to develop human resources for countries embarking on of the First-in-the-World NPP, Bilibino NPP (rst small nuclear co- nuclear power programmes. generation plant), fast reactors BN-350, BN-600 (in operation), BN- safety issues 800 (under construction), BREST (in development), SVBR-100 (under construction) and nuclear submarines. The Institute accommodates At present more than 50 nuclear power plant units with WWER- 160 dierent experimental and test facilities. type reactors are being operated around the world: . Sheremetevo Finland 2 International airport . Czech Republic 6 . Armenia 1 . Bulgaria 2 Vnukovo . International airport Hungary 4 Domodedovo . Iran 1 International airport 1 hour . China 2 . India 1 OBNINSK 21,Kurchatov str, Obninsk, region, 249031, Russia . Slovakia 6 ROSATOM-CICE&T Phone: +7 (48439) 2-91-90; Fax: +7 (48439) 6-80-11; . Contact person: Ukraine 15 . Russia 17 Obninsk city is located within 1.5 hour drive from each of the Moscow Prof. Vladimir V.Artisiuk, international airports. Vice-Rector For our guests Rosatom-CICE&T provides a transfer to Obninsk with an E-mail: [email protected] English speaking guide. http://www.rosatom-cicet.ru Obninsk - 2014 OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE: THE MAIN DISTINGUISHING FEATURES MODERN WWER DESIGN OPTIONS: To describe specics of the NPP with WWER, features and design A range of main engineering solutions developed for . AES-2006 (WWER-1200, 60 years lifetime, 90% capacity factor) of the safety systems, location and design of the main WWERs are original : . WWER-TOI (WWER-1300, Typical Optimized Informative- equipment, controllable parameters at the NPP operation, safe . Zn-Nb alloy as a fuel element cladding advanced project) operating requirements, actions of the operating personnel high resistance to oxidation . AES-91 (WWER-1000) during normal operation and in case of emergency, requirements comparing to the PWR FE cladding . AES-92 (WWER-1000) . Central hole in fuel pellets fuel pellet for personnel at the NPP construction and operation stages structure stability during BDBA MODULES OF THE COURSE: . Hexagonal fuel assemblies  uniformity of neutronic parameters Layout of NPP with WWER-type reactor st .  1 week High-capacity pressurizer additional Reactor facility and refueling system design coolant inventory Novovoronezh NPP-2 Leningrad NPP-2 . AES-2006 WWER-1200/392M WWER-1200/491 AES-2006  Horizontal steam generators large Under construction Under construction WWER fuel. The use of burnable absorber coolant inventory, natural circulation  nd Generation III+ Storage and processing. Ionizing radiation 2 week in the primary circuit Kudankulam NPP Tianwan NPP AES-92 AES-91 . India 2011 China sources and radioactive waste management No nozzles in the reactor vessel bottom 2 units 2006 2 units increased strength of the vessel WWER-1000/412 WWER-1000/428  Generation III Safety fundamentals for NPP with WWER Zaporizhia NPP Great Series 1984 Novovoronezh NPP Small Series  Ukraine Dierent designs of safety systems for new rd 21 units 1980 WWER-1000/187 5 units 3 week WWER-1000/320 units with WWER-type reactors High safety level of Generation II 19 units  Turbine hall layout for NPP with WWER W W E R design was Loviisa NPP 1977 Finland  conrmed again in 2007 WWER-440/213 Generation I 16 units Reactor unit data collecting and processing for Novovoronezh NPP with the commissioning Novovoronezh NPP 1971 WWER-440 NPP with WWER WWER-365 1969  of Chinas Tianwan NPP 1966 Rheinsberg NPP, Germany Reactor control. NPP operating modes Novovoronezh NPP 1964 WWER-70  equipped with the WWER-210 Ensuring safe operation of NPP with WWER th 4 week and operation documentation wo r l d ' s r s t m e l t 1964  WWER water chemistry localization device the WWER-210  NPP personnel management. Plan for the core catcher (a steel vessel, water-cooled, built personnel and public protection directly under a reactor to catch the molten Russian NPPs under construction reactor core in case of meltdown) Overseas In Russia 2014: Novovoronezh NPP-2-1 LANGUAGE OF THE COURSE: ENGLISH Fostering a nuclear power required 2014: Beloyarsk NPP-2-1 2015: Leningrad NPP-2-1 development of new generation 2015: Rostov-3 NPP The course was developed in the framework of the Strategic 2016: Novovoronezh NPP-2-2 WWERs with considerably higher 2017: Leningrad NPP-2-2 Rosatom project "Development of international cooperation and 2018: Baltic NPP-2-1 safety level provided by qualitative 2018: Floating NPP export of nuclear Education&Training" in cooperation with the JSC 2019: Rostov-4 NPP "Rusatom Overseas", a subsidiary of the State Atomic Energy improvement of inherent self- Corporation ROSATOM which is responsible for promoting Russian p r o t e c t i o n a n d a d v a n c e d nuclear technology on the global market implementation of a mixture of Currently Rosatom has negotiations over construction of 23 active and passive safety nuclear power units overseas. Nine power units are under subsystems (channels). construction in Russia