Belarus plans to rely on IAEA assistance to enhance radiation monitoring network near BelNPP
<p> MINSK, Mar 22 - PrimePress. Belarus intends to rely on cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to implement a national project aimed at enhancing a radiation monitoring network in an area that can potentially be affected by the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP, Astravyets, Grodno Oblast). </p> <p> </p> <p> Mikhail Kovalenko, Head of the Radiation Monitoring Service of the National Centre for Hydrometeorology, Radioactive Contamination Control, and Environmental Monitoring (Belhydromet) of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry, made a statement to this effect at a press-conference. </p> <p> </p> <p> “We have submitted an application for implementing a national project meant to improve the radiation monitoring system in the Belarusian nuclear power plant's impact area, including equipment delivery. The application is being reviewed for now but the IAEA Secretariat is likely to approve it,” BelTA reports citing Kovalenko as saying. </p> <p> </p> <p> He explained that the IAEA is implementing a project designed to improve the radiation monitoring system in the European-Asian region. “More than 30 countries are participating in this project, including Belarus,” Kovalenko said. </p> <p> </p> <p> Kovalenko also mentioned what Belarusian specialists had already accomplished with regard to radiation monitoring. In his words, new observation stations have been set up around the Belarusian nuclear power plant to monitor the state of air, surface waters, and soil. The modernization of automatic radiation control systems in the areas affected by nuclear power plants in neighbouring countries will be finished this year. </p> <p> </p> <p> Belarus’ first nuclear power plant in Ostrovets (a town in the Grodno Oblast also referred to as Astravyets) will have two units with a combined capacity of up to 2,400 megawatts. The AES-2006 Russian standard design of (generation 3+) was chosen for its construction. Rosatom’s division Atomstroyexport acts as the general contractor for the NPP construction. The Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant RUE is the project customer and the future operator of the NPP. The ceremony of the official launch of the NPP took place in early November 2020. According to presidential decree No.447 of November 30, 2020, the first power unit of the NPP will be put into commercial operation in 2021, the second power unit – in the first half of 2022. End </p>
2021-03-23
Primepress
Belarus plans to rely on IAEA assistance to enhance radiation monitoring network near BelNPP
MINSK, Mar 22 - PrimePress. Belarus intends to rely on cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to implement a national project aimed at enhancing a radiation monitoring network in an area that can potentially be affected by the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP, Astravyets, Grodno Oblast).
Mikhail Kovalenko, Head of the Radiation Monitoring Service of the National Centre for Hydrometeorology, Radioactive Contamination Control, and Environmental Monitoring (Belhydromet) of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry, made a statement to this effect at a press-conference.
“We have submitted an application for implementing a national project meant to improve the radiation monitoring system in the Belarusian nuclear power plant's impact area, including equipment delivery. The application is being reviewed for now but the IAEA Secretariat is likely to approve it,” BelTA reports citing Kovalenko as saying.
He explained that the IAEA is implementing a project designed to improve the radiation monitoring system in the European-Asian region. “More than 30 countries are participating in this project, including Belarus,” Kovalenko said.
Kovalenko also mentioned what Belarusian specialists had already accomplished with regard to radiation monitoring. In his words, new observation stations have been set up around the Belarusian nuclear power plant to monitor the state of air, surface waters, and soil. The modernization of automatic radiation control systems in the areas affected by nuclear power plants in neighbouring countries will be finished this year.
Belarus’ first nuclear power plant in Ostrovets (a town in the Grodno Oblast also referred to as Astravyets) will have two units with a combined capacity of up to 2,400 megawatts. The AES-2006 Russian standard design of (generation 3+) was chosen for its construction. Rosatom’s division Atomstroyexport acts as the general contractor for the NPP construction. The Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant RUE is the project customer and the future operator of the NPP. The ceremony of the official launch of the NPP took place in early November 2020. According to presidential decree No.447 of November 30, 2020, the first power unit of the NPP will be put into commercial operation in 2021, the second power unit – in the first half of 2022. End