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In addition, the period during which the country’s power plants must have 800 megawatts of reserve production capacity to be put into operation in the event of a nuclear power plant failure has been extended by one year until 2022.
According to the initial plans for the Astrava nuclear power plant project, the first of the two reactors was due to start operating in November 2018, and the second reactor at the nuclear power plant, approximately a year later.
The first nuclear power plant in Belarus to be built near the Lithuanian state will have two reactors from the Russian VVER project, each with a capacity of 1,200 megawatts. The project is financed by a Russian state loan and the power plant is being built by the Rosatom Corporation.
Minsk has announced that the loading of nuclear fuel in the first reactor will be completed on August 20, when it is turned on, a controlled minimum level of 1% will be reached. power and will start generating electricity in November. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said it should happen on November 7. The first reactor is scheduled to go into industrial operation in the first quarter of 2021.
The second reactor is expected to start up approximately one year after the first reactor started.
Lithuania is the biggest critic of the power plant being built in Belarus, while Minsk rejects Vilnius’s accusations of non-compliance with safety requirements.
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