Zsolt Harfas
Zsolt Harfas
A power engineer, member of the Board of Elektrotechnika (Hungary)
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 against nuclear energy, Zsolt Harfas writes.
Political rhetoric over the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) belies EU-Belarus technical cooperation, Emerging Europe's columnist Craig Turp-Balazs writes in his recent article.
ENSREG: Belarus provides access to all BelNPP facilities
MINSK, 10 February (BelTA) - Experts of the European Commission and the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG) accomplished all the tasks during their visit to the site of Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP), Head of the expert group, Director General of Finland s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) Petteri Tiippana told the media, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Energy Ministry.
The experts worked at the BelNPP site on 9-10 February as part of a peer review of the national plan of action following the results of stress tests conducted at the plant.
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
EP committee slams Astravyets nuclear plant as ‘geopolitical project’
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Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant / AP
The Astravyets nuclear power plant is a geopolitical project of Belarus and Russia which does not comply with international nuclear safety standards, according to a draft resolution being presented to the European Parliament.
The document was backed by the EP s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on Thursday, with 66 votes in favour, two votes against and seven abstentions.
The EP plans to have a vote on the resolution during its plenary session on February 8–11, the EP said in a statement.
“The plant is being implemented as a geopolitical project of Belarus and Russia and its construction and future operation is a source of possible threat to the European Union and its Member States with regard to safety, health and protection of the environment,” the text reads.