MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia plans to deliver the first reactor for the nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus at the end of 2015, the nuclear and energy company Atomenergomash, part of Russia’s Rosatom nuclear corporation, said in a statement Monday.
"As part of the contract, the company will make and supply the equipment to the Belarusian nuclear power plant for [its] two blocks," Evgeny Pakermanov, director of AEM-Technologies, Atomenergomash's subsidiary constructing the reactor and its internal devices, said.
The company has already delivered a device for the allocation of the fuel containing material for the first block last year, and a similar one for the second block this month.
Russia’s nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroyexport signed a contract with Belarus to build the country's first atomic power plant in Ostrovets, near the Lithuanian border, in July 2012. The project is slated for completion in July 2020.
The plant will have two nuclear reactors, with the first to be completed by 2017. The construction reportedly costs some $10 billion.
With the plant located just 50 kilometers from Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, its construction has sparked safety concerns from the country’s government.
