Russia-Belarus common electricity market to start operating in 2024
<p> MINSK, Dec 20 - PrimePress. The common Russian-Belarusian electricity market will start its work on 1 January 2024, Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich told a press conference on Monday. </p> <p> </p> <p> "In the accordance with the union program, approved by the integration decree of the heads of Belarus and Russia on Nov 4, common Russian-Belarusian electricity market will start operating on 1 January 2024. Starting January 1, 2027 a deeper integration is also planned, which will enable the economic entities of the two countries, both producers and consumers of electricity, to participate on equal terms,” he said. </p> <p> </p> <p> In his words, cooperation with Russia will advance within the framework of further exploitation of the Belarusian nuclear power plant and the extension of its service life. It provides for a partnership in a number of areas such as scientific support for the project, the introduction of new technologies for repairs, and the involvement of Russian institutes in the development of legal documents. Belarus and Russia are working out an intergovernmental agreement on managing spent nuclear fuel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The document is supposed to be prepared for signing by 1 July 2022, Karankevich said. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, Belarus plans to spend an estimated $2.5-3.5 billion on recycling spent nuclear fuel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP, Astravyets, Grodno Oblast). The amount is mentioned in the strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (the Council of Ministers’ resolution #558 of Aug 22, 2019). </p> <p> </p> <p> According to the strategy, the preferred way of managing spent nuclear fuel is getting it processed in Russia and shipping the waste back to Belarus in the form of glasslike matrix, which contains radionuclides of the cesium-strontium variety, except for long-lived radionuclide. </p> <p> </p> <p> The spent nuclear fuel is supposed to be processed after a period of temporary storage in Belarus and/or Russia. End </p> <p> </p>
2021-12-21
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Russia-Belarus common electricity market to start operating in 2024
MINSK, Dec 20 - PrimePress. The common Russian-Belarusian electricity market will start its work on 1 January 2024, Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich told a press conference on Monday.
"In the accordance with the union program, approved by the integration decree of the heads of Belarus and Russia on Nov 4, common Russian-Belarusian electricity market will start operating on 1 January 2024. Starting January 1, 2027 a deeper integration is also planned, which will enable the economic entities of the two countries, both producers and consumers of electricity, to participate on equal terms,” he said.
In his words, cooperation with Russia will advance within the framework of further exploitation of the Belarusian nuclear power plant and the extension of its service life. It provides for a partnership in a number of areas such as scientific support for the project, the introduction of new technologies for repairs, and the involvement of Russian institutes in the development of legal documents. Belarus and Russia are working out an intergovernmental agreement on managing spent nuclear fuel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The document is supposed to be prepared for signing by 1 July 2022, Karankevich said.
As previously reported, Belarus plans to spend an estimated $2.5-3.5 billion on recycling spent nuclear fuel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP, Astravyets, Grodno Oblast). The amount is mentioned in the strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (the Council of Ministers’ resolution #558 of Aug 22, 2019).
According to the strategy, the preferred way of managing spent nuclear fuel is getting it processed in Russia and shipping the waste back to Belarus in the form of glasslike matrix, which contains radionuclides of the cesium-strontium variety, except for long-lived radionuclide.
The spent nuclear fuel is supposed to be processed after a period of temporary storage in Belarus and/or Russia. End