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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that it is important for Lithuania and the entire international community to be guided by official and fact-based information on the situation at the Belarusian nuclear power plant. Therefore, an immediate response is requested from Belarus on the incident, its causes and the impact on the process of starting up the nuclear power plant and guaranteeing nuclear safety.
The note also noted the importance of ensuring a safety culture at the Belarus nuclear power plant and reiterated its call on Belarus to suspend the commissioning of the nuclear power plant until the highest safety standards have been fully applied. nuclear, environmental requirements, and stress test process recommendations.
ELTA, according to tut.by., has already announced that after the explosion of several voltage transformers in one of the units connected to the generator at the Astravo Nuclear Power Plant (CN), CN Astravo stopped producing electricity on Sunday.
“The safety of the reactors is not affected by such incidents. But if a fire breaks out in the transformer, the commissioning of the Belarusian nuclear power plant for industrial operation will have to be postponed for the period of time necessary to repair the equipment. ”Writes belatom.by.
A spokesman for the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vitaly Novicki, assured that the incident at the Belarusian nuclear power plant was not within the competence of his agency, because “200% of that there was no fire there.”
Eduard Svirid, director of the Information Center of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, asked to wait for the official comment, which he is currently preparing.
Litgrid System Control Center on Tuesday at 11:06. after recording data showing electricity production at the Litgrid nuclear power plant since 11.38 am. establish 0 megawatts of bandwidth for the flow of commercial electricity from Belarus.
Belarus is building a 2,400 MW nuclear power plant near the city of Astrava, which is 50 kilometers from Vilnius. The plant will be made up of two 1,200 MW power units.
Lithuania criticizes the project which, in the opinion of the country’s representatives, is being implemented in violation of nuclear safety requirements.
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