MINSK, 24 August (BelTA) – The national report on results of stress tests of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be ready by late August, BelTA learned from Olga Lugovskaya, Head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor).
According to the source, work on the report is nearing completion. The report on results of stress testing the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be ready by the end of the month.
The report will be translated into English and forwarded to the European Commission in line with previously made arrangements. The European Commission will select specialists to work with the report. If necessary, they can visit Belarus in addition to remotely perusing the report, noted Olga Lugovskaya.
Belarus stress-tested its nuclear power plant in 2016 using European methods and taking into account recommendations based on the European Commission's and the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group's (ENSREG) specifications. As part of the stress testing process the resilience of the Belarusian nuclear power plant as well as its adaptation to extreme impacts was tested. The safe operation of the nuclear power plant in the face of extreme external impacts was evaluated. Consequences of natural phenomena were forecasted such as combinations of floods, extreme weather conditions and external impacts, consequences of the nuclear power plant's losing safety functions due to the loss of external power.
The Belarusian nuclear power plant is built using the Russian standard Generation III+ design AES-2006 near Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2019, with the second one to go online in 2020.
