exactly three months after delivery, with the Russian energy companies fuel the first Belarusian nuclear power plant near Ostrovets, announced the date of his boot in a nuclear reactor of the first unit.
It starts this coming Friday, 7 August, BelTA learnt from a source in the industry Ministry called the operation “one of the stages of the process of entering the unit into operation”. But only until the end of the month in the “furnace” of the station in the Grodno region will be loaded 163 fuel assemblies with nuclear fuel.
by the Way, reminiscent of the local observers, the fuel loading in the reactor is fabricated at the Novosibirsk chemical concentrates plant, which is part of Rosatom fuel company. At the plant, confirmed informed BelTA in the Ministry of energy provided the technical readiness of the premises, equipment and systems. Even before the arrival of the “atomic composition” of the objects of the first power unit was placed under the protection of the internal troops in the regular mode.
More than three years is carried out in Belarus and a comprehensive program of observations of the radiation environment characteristics in the region of the NPP, explained to the news channels head of service of radiation monitoring of Belhydromet Mikhail Kovalenko. Experts, he said, “get data from which to make a start in analyzing the impact of a nuclear power plant on the environment”.
In the future, when the laboratory of radiation control of the environment of a nuclear power plant in Ostrovets will work, it will continue to carry out the program of complex ecological monitoring in a zone of supervision of nuclear power plant.
with regard to the frequency of observations, then, according to Kovalenko, it will be determined adopted rules of procedure. For example, “on the monitoring points selection of surface water samples is now five times a year, soil – every year, sampling of atmospheric air are carried out daily. System of radiation control measures dose rate of gamma radiation every minute and every ten minutes sends them. In real time this information is received and to colleagues in the Ministry of emergency situations”, – said the representative of Belhydromet.
moreover, the Deputy General Director of “joint Institute for power and nuclear research – Sosny” Alexander Trifonov has made it clear that their institution will conduct in-depth monitoring. It will be carried out annually and at the end of the year experts will present a report which will be placed in the public domain, assured the scientist.
Besides, according to him, the specialists of the Institute analyzed the different cases of accidents. He is convinced that the Belarusian NPP project “significantly reduced human factor influence. The operator in the event of an emergency could not interfere in the work station approximately 30 minutes, and this knowledge��it that he will not be able to make incorrect decisions. So we managed to achieve high levels of safety of the Belarusian NPP,” – said the expert.
As already informed “the UNION”, the Belarusian first nuclear energy with two WWER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2,400 MW was built by the Russian project. The reactors of generation 3+ have improved technical and economic indicators. Their main feature experts call a unique combination of active and passive safety systems.
