Belarusian NPP. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 26Physical start-up of the second power unit took place at the Belarusian nuclear power plant, said Aleksey Likhachev, director general of the state corporation Rosatom. operation,» Likhachev said, speaking at the Federation Council on Tuesday. A physical launch is the launch of a power unit's reactor. After that, neutron-physical studies of its core are carried out for compliance with the requirements of the project. Successful implementation of these works will allow moving on to the next stage — the power start-up of the unit with its inclusion in the country's energy system. The Belarusian NPP is the largest Russian-Belarusian economic project. A plant with two VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2400 MW is being built in Ostrovets (Grodno Region). On June 10 last year, the Ministry of Energy of Belarus announced that the acceptance committee had signed an act of acceptance into operation of the start-up complex of the first unit of the BelNPP. — preventive maintenance
