OSTROVETS, 19 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian nuclear power plant will have about 2,300 personnel, BelTA learned from Vladimir Gorin, Deputy Chief Engineer for Personnel Training of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant.
“The number of personnel that will man the future power plant will be close to 2,300 people. Of them about 70 people will be foreign specialists, who have already worked at nuclear power plants,” said Vladimir Gorin.
The future specialists are now being trained at the education and training center of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The center will also help improve their skills in the course of their work. “Personnel of the central control room will also have to go through an emergency response exercise in order to keep up the standards required for the safe operation of nuclear reactors,” explained Vladimir Gorin.
Simultaneously Belarusian specialists are improving their skills in the Russian cities of Obninsk and Ivanovo.
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.
