VVER-1200
The VVER-1200 (or NPP-2006 or AES-2006) is an evolution of the VVER-1000 being offered for domestic and export use. Specifications include a $1,200 per kW electric capital cost, 54 month planned construction time, and expected 50 year lifetime at 90% capacity factor. The VVER 1200 will produce 1,200 MWe of power. Safety features include a containment building and missile shield. It will have full emergency systems that include an emergency core cooling system, emergency backup diesel power supply, advanced refueling machine, computerized reactor control systems, backup feedwater supply and reactor SCRAM system. The nuclear reactor and associated systems will be hosted in one single building and there will be another building for the turbogenerators. The main building will comprise the reactor, refueling machine and diesel backup power supply, steam generators and reactor control systems.
If a VVER-1200 experiences a loss of coolant accident or loss of power accident the turbogenerators 'coast down' for 30 seconds, during which time a shutdown can be initiated using residual power in the system. Further emergency power is available from a backup set of diesel generators kept on standby to maintain cooling flow to the reactor. The reactor design has been refined to optimize fuel efficiency.
The first two units are proposed for Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II and Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II. A standardized design has not been elected. Mainly are more reactors with a VVER-1200/491 like the Leningrad-II-design are firmly planned (Kaliningrad and Nizhny Novgorod NPP) and under construction. The VVER-1200/392M under construction at the Novovoronezh NPP-II is selected for the Seversk, Zentral and South-Urals NPP. A standard version was developed as VVER-1200/510 and referred to as VVER-TOI.
In July 2012 a contract was agreed to build two AES-2006 in Belarus at Ostrovets for a cost of about $10 billion.
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