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Signing general contract for Belarusian NPP postponed

Signing general contract for Belarusian NPP postponed

The document is said not to be finished yet.

The general contract for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus will not be signed on June 18 or 19 as originally scheduled as the document is not ready, Interfax reported.

However, Belarus plans to sign the contract before the end of June.

A Russian contractor is to build a 2400 MW two-unit plant using VVER-1200/491 (AES-2006) pressurized water reactors on a turnkey basis.

The plant will be located in the Astraviec district some 10 miles from the Lithuanian border. The first unit of the plant is scheduled to be put into operation in 2017 and the other one in 2018 or 2019.

According to the Strategy for the Development of the Energy Potential of the Republic of Belarus for the period until the end of 2020, a total of $9,334 million is to be spent between 2011 and 2020 on the construction of the nuclear power plant. The Strategy says that $3 billion will be spent on the project between 2011 and 2015 and $6,334 million between 2016 and 2020.

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