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Minsk will host the expo and conference AtomExpo Belarus 2015 from 22 to 24 April, BelTA learned from the press service of OOO Atomexpo.

“The main aim of the expo and conference will be to demonstrate the latest technologies of design, construction, operation, and safety protection of nuclear power plants, to ensure effective supply of equipment for the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP), and to facilitate the development of the system of training of nuclear specialists in Belarus,” the press service explained.

The program of the forum includes a conference on the development of nuclear power engineering in the Republic of Belarus with a plenary session, sections, roundtables, and presentations by the companies that will partake in the expo. The conference will discuss the construction of the BelNPP and delivery of equipment for it, development of nuclear infrastructure in Belarus, and public acceptance of nuclear power engineering.

The international expo and conference AtomExpo Belarus 2015 will be held on the initiative of the Energy Ministry of Belarus with the support of the Russian state nuclear energy industry corporation Rosatom.

In 2015 the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry will step up control over the production and acceptance of the equipment made for the Belarusian nuclear power plant, BelTA learned from Oleg Sobolev, Head of the Communications and Public Information Office of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry.

In comparison with 2014 the involvement of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department in control over the production of the equipment will no longer be sporadic. The Department will practice large-scale permanent control, said the official. In 2015 a lot of equipment will be produced for the Belarusian nuclear power plant. Since the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020, the active manufacturing operations will last for several years, he added. In 2014 specialists of the Department started practicing oversight at producer factories in Russia’s Saint Petersburg and Volgodonsk.

Speaking about the main areas of the Department’s work for 2015, Oleg Sobolev pointed out that the Department will closely monitor the fulfillment of the requirements of the license granted to the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant for the time needed to build the two power-generating units. The next license the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant will request from the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry will be the license to operate the first power-generating unit, specified the specialist.

Oleg Sobolev stressed that the Department’s inspectors have been monitoring the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant on site since late 2014.

Speaking about results of the Department’s work in 2014, the official reminded that they issued three licenses: for building the foundations of facilities of the second power-generating unit (in February), for building the first power-generating unit (in April), and for building the second power-generating unit (in December). A total of 13 audits of the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant were carried out in 2014 to check nuclear and radiation safety state, including two complex audits involving Russian specialists.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus will ensure the adequate radiation monitoring by the time the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) is commissioned, First Deputy Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Iya Malkina told reporters on 5 February, BelTA has learned.

“Now we are working on the radiation monitoring system for the area surrounding the nuclear power plant. By the time the NPP becomes operational, we will be able to ensure the adequate level of radiation control at the NPP in accordance with all the safety requirements,” she noted.

According to her, a number of facilities needed to ensure the adequate radiation monitoring, have already been partially installed. “We are collaborating successfully with research centers. Besides, we constantly keep in touch with other nuclear safety watchdogs working at the BelNPP,” Iya Malkina noted.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is being built 18km away from the town of Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The BelNPP will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). The Russian merged company OAO NIAEP – ZAO ASE is the general designer and the general contractor of the project. The first power-generating unit of the nuclear power plant is scheduled for launch in 2018, the second one in 2020.

Belarus has approved the composition of the Belarusian part of the Belarusian-Russian committee that will coordinate the implementation of the Belarusian-Russian intergovernmental agreement of 15 March 2011 on cooperation in building a nuclear power plant in Belarus. The relevant decision is laid down by Council of Ministers executive order No. 7 of 8 January 2015, the press service of the Belarus government told BelTA.

Belarusian Energy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk will be the chairman of the Belarusian part of the joint coordinating committee. Deputy Architecture and Construction Minister Sergei Lastochkin will be his deputy. Apart from that, the Belarusian part of the Belarusian-Russian coordinating committee includes First Deputy Director of the Construction Oversight Department of the State Standardization Committee Yuri Bulakhov, Director of the company OAO NII Stroyekonomika Piotr Zhabko, Head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry Olga Lugovskaya, advisor of the Economic Cooperation and Sustainable Development Office of the Central Office for Multilateral Diplomacy of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Igor Mishkorudnyi, Director General of the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant Mikhail Filimonov, and Director of the Nuclear Energy Department of the Belarusian Energy Ministry Stanislav Chernousov.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to inform the Russian Federation government about the composition of the Belarusian part of the Belarusian-Russian coordinating committee.

The executive order comes into force as of the publication date.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). The Russian merged company OAO NIAEP – ZAO ASE is the general designer and the 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.

The enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant has been given the license to build the second power-generating unit of the nuclear power plant, the press service of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry told BelTA.

The decision to issue the license to build the second power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was made at the session of the Emergencies Ministry board on 30 December.

In accordance with the established procedure the documents that justify the nuclear and radiation safety of the project had been examined. The documents include a preliminary report on safety justification, a probability analysis of the safety of the first tier and other ones. As part of the procedure the United Energy and Nuclear Research Institute Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus verified the completeness of safety justification of the second power-generating unit and the conformance of the justification documents with legal requirements of Belarus and Russia with regard to the use of nuclear energy, sources of ionizing radiation, and international recommendations.

Apart from that, a commission of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry has assessed the organizational and technical ability of the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant to comply with terms of the license.

The decision to issue the license was based on several factors such as conclusions that state that the chosen design to build the second power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is justified from the point of view of nuclear and radiation safety and satisfies requirements specified by Belarusian and Russian laws, in line with which the design has been worked out and the work to build the unit will be done. The factors also include positive results of the conformance evaluation. The license will allow the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant to start the main stage of the construction of the second power-generating unit.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is being built near the town of Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast, using the AES-2006 design. 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 merged company OAO NIAEP – ZAO ASE is the general designer and the 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.

The license to build the first power-generating unit was issued in April 2014.

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