Belenergo comments on timeline to launch second unit of BelNPP

Belenergo Deputy Director General Sergei Bobovich spoke about the timeline to launch the second unit of the Belarusian NPP is commissioned during an online conference hosted by BelTA’s website.

"Work to commission the second unit involves the following  stages: pre-commissioning, physical launch, reactor power startup, and trial operation. We are in the middles of the physical launch. Nuclear fuel has been loaded into the reactor of the second unit. Then we will seal the reactor and carry out necessary hydraulic tests, hot trials and bring the reactor to the minimum controllable power level," Sergei Bobovich said.

This will be followed by the reactor power startup. "It is about bringing the reactor from a level of physical launch to a level sufficient to start the turbine, then to an intermediate level. After that we will stabilize the unit at these levels, conduct necessary checks and equipment and systems trials. After that, we will proceed to the trial operation. We are planning to connect the second unit to the grid by the summer of 2022," Sergei Bobovich noted.