Construction works at Belarusian NPP to start in November

The main construction works at the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP) are expected to start in November 2013, Head of Belarus' office of Nizhny Novgorod Engineering Company Atomenergoproyekt, Director for the Construction of the Belarusian NPP Yuri Pustovoi told an online conference hosted by BelTA on 23 October.

“The Russian party assesses the progress at the construction site as satisfactory. There are no schedule delays. The main construction works will start in November,” he stressed.

In his words, “only highly qualified construction organizations are involved in the project”. “All the works are in full swing,” Yuri Pustovoi added.

The Russian design AES 2006 with a water-water energetic reactor WWER-1200 was chosen to build a nuclear power plant in Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast, Belarus. the project implementation period is contained in the general contract that envisages the commissioning of the first power-generating unit in November 2018 and the second one in July 2020. The Belarusian nuclear power plant will boast two power-generating units with the total output capacity up to 2,400MW. The annual average production of electricity will reach 17.095.1 million kWh.