Belarusian nuclear station equipment delivered from Ukraine without issues

Equipment for the Belarusian nuclear power plant is delivered from Ukraine without any issues, said Andrei Barkun, Deputy Director General, Head of the Capital Construction Office of the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, during the press conference arranged by BelTA on 11 March.

He specified that some equipment is manufactured in Ukraine as part of the contract with the company Power Machines, including a ventilating plant, condensing electric pumps. “They are manufactured on schedule. The deliveries are planned within the established timeframe. We have received no word from the general contractor that the deliveries may fail,” noted Andrei Barkun.

The executive also added that intermediate parts to make equipment for the Belarusian nuclear power plant, including the reactor shell, are made in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. They were delivered to Volgodonsk last year for consequent manufacturing. The general contractor also cooperates with the Zaporozhye-based transformer manufacturer Zaporozhtransformator. The enterprise is expected to deliver the equipment from May 2015 through November 2016.

Nevertheless, Andrei Barkun made it clear that if an unforeseen situation occurs in Ukraine, Russian factories will be able to manufacture the necessary parts.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). The Russian merged company OAO NIAEP – ZAO ASE is the general designer and the general contractor of the project. In line with the general contract for building the nuclear power plant the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020.