Rosatom has ruled out the existence of unresolved issues between Moscow and Minsk regarding the BelNPP

There are no unresolved issues between Moscow and Minsk related to the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The press service of Rosatom reported this.

“We closely interact with Belarusian partners and jointly resolve issues that arise during the implementation of the project, including the timing of the commissioning of the second power unit. The last time we synchronized watches on the project was quite recently – on October 16, a meeting between Rosatom General Director Alexei Evgenievich Likhachev and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Aleksandrovich Golovchenko took place. At the moment there are no unresolved issues,” the statement said.

Rosatom also noted that the safety of nuclear power plants has always been a priority. “We have never had the task of speeding up the construction process at the expense of safety requirements,” the company emphasized, clarifying that the delay in putting the station into operation occurred due to the coronavirus pandemic and sanctions. In addition, the BelNPP was built in a country that for the first time took “the path of large-scale nuclear energy.”

October 31, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko reported on the completion of the construction of the BelNPP. “The station is operating at full capacity, planned preventive and other measures are being carried out, as required by regulations,” he said. The Belarusian leader also noted that they plan to raise the issue of compensation with the Russian side in connection with the postponement of the commissioning of the nuclear power plant.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant with two VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2400 MW, located near the city of Ostrovets, Grodno region, is being built according to the Russian project “AES-2006”. The first power unit was put into operation in June 2021. On February 2, 2021, the BelNPP generated the first billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.