OSTROVETS, 19 April (BelTA) – The installation of primary equipment at the first power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will begin by the end of 2016, BelTA learned from Vladimir Gorin, Deputy Chief Engineer for Personnel Training of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant.
Plans have been made to go ahead with the main operations to build the first power-generating unit. The operations will include the installation of the reactor vessel, steam generators, and the turbine unit in addition to electric technology equipment. The construction of the main buildings of the second power-generating unit will go on.
About $445 million will be spent on building the Belarusian nuclear power plant in 2016 in line with contracts signed with the Russian side. About 42,000 tonnes of reinforcing bars will be installed and about 235,000m3 of concrete will be poured. A boiler house will be commissioned to provide heating during the construction period, the launch period, and during emergencies. Plans have been made to commission the installations to feed power for proprietary needs of the nuclear power plant. A facility to supply technical water to the power plant will be commissioned.
Power lines to feed electricity from the nuclear power plant to the national power grid will be built in line with the schedule. The training of personnel to man the nuclear power plant will be continued together with the general contractor.
Plans have been made to commission 12 residential buildings in Ostrovets with the total area of 49,500m2 for construction workers and specialists of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano is expected to visit the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant today. He will examine the construction site and will be made familiar with the operation of the training and education center.
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). The Russian company NIAEP-ASE is the general designer and 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.
