Nuclear Physicist Ozharovsky About BelNPP: Power Unit Turned Out To Be Crooked

At the Belarusian nuclear power plant 14330 uncorrected faults have been registered.

As of July 1, 2021, there were 14330 uncorrected problems at the Belarusian nuclear power plant, and the plant has been suspended nine times since it was launched. But in spite of all this, it is planned to start up the second power unit in the near future.

Well-known Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Ozharovsky spoke in the Belsat Studio program about what is actually happening at the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

According to nuclear physicist Andrei Ozharovsky, they had no right to put the plant into operation at all with so many faults, because it is really dangerous.

"What we see, and what people observe from the outside, is that the power unit turned out to be crooked, that there are not thousands but tens of thousands of defects, inconsistencies in the design, wrongly connected sensors, which means that the famous Rosatom quality is not a metaphor, but in general such a feature of anti-quality.

And of course, with all these problems that have become known, it confirms the fears of the opponents of the nuclear power plant, it confirms the opinion of the Belarusian Anti-Nuclear Company that the plant is dangerous, that the authorities lie, and that they in principle could not sign the act of commissioning the nuclear power plant with so many faults".

Andrei Ozharovsky draws attention to the fact that the opening of the station testifies not to the unprofessionalism of the Belarusian specialists, but to their dependence on Russia and, in the first place, on Rosatom.

"Let me remind you that there was a long first trial operation, which is a special time when all these shortcomings are to be corrected by the builder, Rosatom's subdivision. Belarus, apparently, is not fully independent of Rosatom, and the Belarusian supervisory authorities could not insist on not signing the act, it was necessary to continue the period of pilot operation until the deficiencies were eliminated."

The expert suggested that, given the experience of launching the first unit, the launch of the second unit could be just as dangerous.

"A nuclear power plant is a dangerous facility. Now we are courageously waiting for the physical start-up of the second power unit to happen with the same drawbacks in the coming days or by the end of the week, and next year we are already expecting commissioning. Once again, I repeat that all the problems should have been identified and eliminated during the wholesale-industrial operation. The fact that the Belarusian authorities signed the act of commissioning is wrong.