Belarus loading fuel into controversial nuclear power plant

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 08 Aug 2020 by Alex Teddy
On August 7 fuel was put into the reactor at Astravets nuclear power station. The power plant was built by Rosatom and paid for by a USD 10 billion loan from Russia earlier in 2020. The first electricity is supposed to flow later in 2020. There is a second reactor which is not yet finished. The nuclear power plant is close to the borders of Lithuania and Latvia. They vigorously object to the power plant. It is 50 km from Vilnius. Lithuania will not accept any electricity from Astravets. Memories of the Chernobyl catastrophe are still fresh in the region. The Baltic republics aim to end their dependence on the Soviet era electricity grid by 2025.Belarus insists that Astravets is safe. The currently used reactor has a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts. The second reactor is to be completed by 2022 and will have a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts as well.

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