What is "vver-toi"

The VVER-TOI or WWER-TOI is a design for a two-unit nuclear power plant. It would use VVER-1300/510 water pressurized reactors constructed to meet modern nuclear and radiation safety requirements.

According to the results of the President Committee session for upgrading and development of the Russian economy of July 22, 2009, the President of the Russian Federation set out the task for the nuclear industry of optimizing VVER operational characteristics as a priority.

State Corporation “Rosatom” builds nuclear power plants in Russia. The scope of nuclear power plant development has been defined until 2020, taking into account the projected power-plant engineering capabilities to produce main equipment for nuclear power plants with typical VVER units annually, and capabilities of nuclear construction power complex to put the main equipment into operation at different sites simultaneously.

The VVER-TOI project is developed on the basis of the design documents worked out for AES-2006, considering the experience gained in development of projects based on VVER technology both in Russia and abroad, such as Novovoronezh NPP-2.