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On-the-job training for Belarusian nuclear power plant personnel in Russia as from May

21.04.2016
Personnel of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant will be able to enjoy on-the-job training at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in May, BelTA learned from the enterprise’s Director General Mikhail Filimonov on 20 April.

“On-the-job training will begin at premises of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in May. The team has been prepared already,” said the Director General of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant.

The executive specified that about 600 personnel are supposed to go through on-the-job training. “All of them cannot be trained in one go, this is why small groups will be used for training purposes,” noted Mikhail Filimonov. He went on saying the first group will travel to the Russian city in May. Initially on-the-job training will involve the nuclear power plant in Novovoronezh. Plans have been made for on-the-job training at the Leningrad nuclear power plant later on.

BelTA reported earlier that Belarusian specialists often visit Novovoronezh for the sake of sharing the best practices since the innovative reactor design VVER-1200 has been chosen to build Belarus’ first nuclear power plant and the same design is used to build the sixth and seventh reactors of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. Over 90 representatives of Belarus have been to the Russian nuclear power plant in the last five years. The education and training center of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant have already offered three educational courses for personnel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The Belarusian nuclear power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). 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. About 2,300 people are expected to man the nuclear power plant.