Belarusian nuclear power plant’s contribution to national energy security stressed

05.05.2022

MINSK, 5 May (BelTA) – The Belarusian nuclear power plant makes a substantial contribution to strengthening the country’s energy security. Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich made the statement at a session of the Board of Directors of RUP Minskenergo, BelTA has learned.

During the session Viktor Karankevich talked about the main stages of the project to build the Belarusian nuclear power plant. Close attention was paid to the nuclear power plant’s safety. The official reminded that the Belarusian nuclear power plant uses the Russian design AES-2006 featuring two VVER-1200 reactors with the total output capacity of 2,400MW. It is an evolutionary nuclear power plant design with third-generation water-moderated reactors. Such designs boast improved technical and economic parameters. A combination of active and passive safeguards is their key feature.

The first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was commissioned on 10 June 2021. Since it was connected to the power grid (3 November 2020), it has generated 9.3 billion kWh of electricity, which allowed substituting 2.3 billion m3 of natural gas.

Once the second unit of the nuclear power plant is commissioned, the nuclear power plant’s electricity output will be close to 18.5 billion kWh and will allow substituting about 4.5 billion m3 of natural gas per annum.

Viktor Karankevich also outlined key avenues of development of the power engineering industry and identified the key tasks RUP Minskenergo will have to accomplish. Those include the realization of investment projects, conversion of the housing stock to use electricity for heating and hot water supply as part of the government programs “Housing construction” and “Comfortable housing and favorable environment”, the realization of measures to fulfill Directive No.1, management of human resources, and other tasks.

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