On the basis of the available information and a visit to the nuclear power plant site the preliminary peer review report on the implementation of the Belarusian stress test national action plan concludes that progress has been made in addressing all recommendations related to seven high-priority issues.
02 February 2021
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The European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy has approved a draft resolution on the safety of the Ostrovets nuclear power plant in Belarus. Committee members voted 66 in favour and two against the resolution, with seven abstentions. The document, which was initiated by Lithuania, will be discussed at the plenary session of the European Parliament next week.
The Ostrovets plant in Belarus (Image: Rosatom)
The Committee said on 28 January that it regrets the hasty launch of the plant and calls for its activities to be suspended until all EU safety recommendations have been implemented .
The draft resolution says the plant is 50km from Vilnius, in Lithuania, and close to other EU countries, including Estonia, Latvia and Poland. It claims there has been a persistent lack of transparency and official information regarding recurrent emergency shutdowns of the reactor and equipment failure during the commissioning of the plant last yea
Belarus adherence to international safety standards in nuclear power plant construction stressed
Last week the European Parliament passed a resolution on the Belarusian nuclear power plant. Among other things the resolution calls for complete observance of international safety standards. The Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor) has commented on some matters relating to nuclear and radiation safety regulations.
First of all, Gosatomnadzor stressed that in the course of implementing its first nuclear energy program Belarus strictly follows safety standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and fundamental safety principles. The country participates in the implementation of all components of the global nuclear safety regime. Belarus is a negotiating party to a number of conventions and agreements, including the Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management an
Hungarian expert: EU s resolution on BelNPP is a completely biased political step
Zsolt Harfas. Photo courtesy of ctv.by
MINSK, 15 February (BelTA) - The resolution of the European Parliament on the Belarusian nuclear power plant is a completely biased, groundless political step, Zsolt Harfas, a power engineer, member of the Board of Elektrotechnika (Hungary), said in his article for the Hungarian news website Origo, BelTA has learned.
The Hungarian expert noted that representatives of the European political parties who are opposed to nuclear energy and who support Lithuania s rhetoric, timed their resolution to the visit of ENSREG experts to the Belarusian nuclear power plant. By doing so, they are trying to create the impression that the Belarusian nuclear power plant does not meet international standards, although the facts suggest quite the opposite. The resolution of the European Parliament is another vexing proof of the erroneous European energy policy, which discriminates