In accordance with part seven of Article 15² of the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated November 26, 1992 on Environmental Protection, a meeting with the public was held on January 14, 2019 in the cinema and concert hall, in Ostrovets, to discuss the environmental report on the strategic environmental assessment of the draft strategy for the management with spent nuclear fuel of Belarusian nuclear power plant.
The report was developed by the United Energy and Nuclear Research Institute - Sosny of Scientific Institution of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus with the participation of state enterprise Belarusian NPP and the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation.
For the purpose of preliminary familiarization with the contents of the environmental report, the text of the document was posted on the official websites of the Ministry of Energy, oblast executive committees, Minsk Oblast Committee of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the scientific institution “United Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research - Sosny” of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, state enterprise "Belarusian NPP". The text of the environmental report on paper was available in the information center of Belarusian NPP in Ostrovets.
The meeting was held in accordance with the “Regulations on the procedure for organizing and conducting public discussions of draft environmentally significant decisions, environmental reports on strategic environmental assessment, environmental impact assessment reports, taking into account environmentally important decisions made”, approved by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of 14.06. 2016 No. 458.
179 people registered to participate in the meeting: citizens of the Republic of Belarus, including 17 people - citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, representatives of public and environmental organizations, representatives of the media.
The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Chairman of Ostrovets Regiont Executive Committee Viktor Svillo.
Alexander Parfenov, Deputy Chief Engineer of state enterprise “Belarusian NPP”, informed the participants of the meeting about the environmental report.
During the meeting, 12 people asked questions on the report.
Most of the questions were answered by specialists during the meeting. Answers to questions requiring additional information will be provided to those who applied within 10 days from the day of the meeting.
Three citizens addressed the meeting with speeches in which they made comments and suggestions on the content of the environmental report.
Comments and suggestions made during the meeting with the community to discuss the Environmental report on the strategic environmental assessment of the draft strategy for managing the spent nuclear fuel of Belarusian nuclear power plant will be taken into account when finalizing this report and the draft strategy for managing the spent nuclear fuel of Belarusian nuclear power plant.
At the end of the meeting, Deputy Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Energy Dulinets Liliya thanked the participants for their constructive work, noting that many of the participants of the meeting, representatives of public organizations were deeply acquainted with the materials contained in the environmental report, and also expressed gratitude for the comments received during the discussion, questions and the proposals, assuring that all of them will be carefully considered by specialists.
