First BelNPP Unit Is 95% Ready, Second Unit - 70%
- 9.10.2019, 12:15
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Soon it is planned to deliver nuclear fuel to the nuclear power plant in Astravets.
The next key event at the construction site will be the delivery of nuclear fuel, said Liliya Dulinets, Deputy Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Energy of Belarus, tut.by reports.
- We estimate the readiness of the first power unit at about 95%. This is a high readiness. The second power unit is about 70% ready. The next key event at the construction site will be the delivery of nuclear fuel, - Liliya Dulinets, Deputy Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Energy of Belarus, said during a roundtable on the Belarusian NPP at the Belarusian Energy Ecological Forum in Minsk.
Aliaksei Yakidzin, director of the Alpha-X91 environmental safety agency, said that in August 2019, experts had measured the "zero background" of the territory adjacent to the NPP in Astravets. This means that they fixed the background radiation before the plant is launched. In particular, they conducted field spectrometry and measured the background in three sections of the Viliya River. The final report on all measurements of "zero background" will be presented in December.
We remind that the Belarusian NPP with two VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2400 MW is being built under the Russian project near Astravets (Hrodna region). The first power unit is planned to be commissioned at the end of 2019, and the second one - in 2020. The general contractor for the construction of BelNPP is the engineering division of Rosatom State Corporation.
The Lithuanian government says that the construction of BelNPP does not comply with safety and environmental protection requirements. Belarus categorically rejects such claims. On October 1-4, 2019, Lithuania held the National Exercise on Civil Protection in case of a nuclear incident.
The Belarusian nuclear power plant in Astravets is under construction under the Russian project, as well as Russia has given an export credit of up to $10 billion for the construction. The intergovernmental agreement on the plant construction provides for cooperation in designing, building and commissioning of two NPP units.
