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Publish date: November 19, 2007
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The decree stipulates establishing of the Nuclear Plant Construction Department inside the Byelorussian Ministry of Energy.
The document is issued to implement preliminary works on nuclear power plant construction in Byelorussia, provide nuclear and radiation safety according to IAEA recommendations, Interfax reported with reference to the Byelorussian president’s press department. According to the decree the Nuclear Plant Construction department is established to function as customer to execute preliminary and design works for nuclear plant construction. Besides, the Department on Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department (Gosatomnadzor), a new regulating and licensing state agency, will be established to work in the field of safe nuclear energy usage, radiation and safe handling of radioactive waste.
The scientific support of the preparation and construction will be provided by the United Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research – Sosny of the Byelorussian National Science Academy. Belnipienergoprom Company will be the general designer and will sign deals with all the contractors, reported Interfax.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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