POWER INDUSTRY

Russian Deputy PM announced largest global energy crisis in four decades

The global transformation and competition for energy resources, exacerbated by the conflict in the Middle East, have triggered the most severe energy crisis worldwide in the last forty years — as noted by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, TASS reports Photo: www.tass.ru “We are currently witnessing what I believe is the largest energy crisis in the past 40 years,” he said. The Russian Deputy PM noted that many wars over the past 30 to 40 years have been primarily driven by the ...

19.03.2026

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Belenergo about stages before the commissioning of the second power unit

Deputy Director General of Belenergo State Production Association, Sergei Bobovich, spoke during an online conference on the BelTA website about the upcoming stages of work before the commissioning of the second power unit at the BelNPP “The commissioning of the power unit includes the following major stages: pre-commissioning activities, physical start-up of the reactor, power start-up, and pilot operation. Now we have already launched the physical start-up. The loading of nuclear fuel into the ...

13.01.2022

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Nuclear fuel loaded into reactor

The first fuel assembly with fresh nuclear fuel was loaded into the reactor core of the second power unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) at 10.11am on December 22 nd – as reported by the Telegram channel of the Energy Ministry The department clarified that a total of 163 fuel assemblies will be loaded into the reactor. Each assembly consists of 312 fuel elements with a diameter of 9mm and a height of about 4m. The weight of fuel in one fuel assembly reaches 571kg. “After that, ...

22.12.2021

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BelNPP’s second power unit almost ready

Belarus’ Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich said at the BelTA press centre that readiness of the second power unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) is estimated at 95 percent According to Mr. Karankevich, works are now being carried out on it to fulfil the necessary conditions in order to receive a permit from the Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of the Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor) to load nuclear fuel into the reactor core. “It is planned that these works will ...

20.12.2021

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