Belarusian nuclear
power plant

Mass media

For access of the representatives of the Belarusian mass media to the construction site, it is necessary to send an official request to the State Enterprise “Belarusian NPP” 30 days before the planned visit with the following information:

• Passport data of visitors;
• Titles of visitors’ positions;
• Planned date of a visit;
• Transport data (license plate number, make and model), if it is planned to use a private or company-owned vehicle.

The request shall be accompanied by:

• Copy of a media accreditation certificate;
• Copies of passports (pages 31-33; a page containing residence registration details);
• Plans for reportage, articles, interviews, scenario outlines for photographing, filming, video recording;
• Data on audio-video-photo equipment to be used (product name, serial number).

For access of foreign mass media representatives, data is provided 45 days before the planned visit.

Rules for organizing and conducting study visits to the construction site of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant

• A request letter for visiting the Belarusian NPP addressed to the Director General of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant" Sergei Olegovich Bobovich and a list of visit participants should be sent by e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in advance (at least 30 days for citizens of the Republic of Belarus and at least 45 days for citizens of foreign countries).
• The letter shall indicate the name of the enterprise, institution or organization, the estimated date of the visit, as well as the contact details of the person responsible for its organization. The letter must be executed on official letterhead, signed by the company leader (for higher education institutions - by the rector of the university or the dean of the faculty) and stamped with the company seal.
• A complete list of the group with passport data is to be attached to the letter, which is also signed by the company leader and stamped. The list form is shown below.

The list must be provided by all categories of citizens!!!

• Persons under the age of 18 and older than 70 are not allowed for excursions to the units of the Belarusian NPP.
• To find out the results of the consideration of a request for a visit to the Belarusian NPP contact the Department for Information and Public Relations by calling +375 (1591) 46-699 three days before the expected date of the tour.
• Persons who arrived instead of someone, or those whose data are not listed, will not be allowed by the security service of the Belarusian NPP to enter the territory of the construction site.
• Excursions are held only on weekdays from 9 a.m to 4 p.m.
• Group size should not exceed 25 people.
• Coordination of visit details (date, time, transport, number of people, etc.) is carried out in advance with specialists of the Department for Information and Public Relations of the Belarusian NPP by calling +375 (1591) 46-699. The excursion organizer (accompanying person) must carefully check the list attached to the letter for compliance with the passport data of each group member indicated in it before sending the letter and the list.
• When visiting the power plant, it is forbidden to have:
• video and photo cameras, laptops, tablets, e-books;
• mobile phones with functions of photo and video fixation, wireless data transmission;
• USB-flash cards, CDs, headset (headphones), chargers for mobile phones and other electronic storage media;
• devices for wireless data transmission;
• electronic computer games;
• piercing and cutting items;
• alcoholic drinks;

Persons with the above-mentioned items will not be allowed to enter the territory of the construction site.

• Video recording and photographing with any equipment near the main administrative building of the Belarusian NPP, where sightseers arrive, in the territory, in the administrative and industrial premises of the NPP facilities, is made with the permission of the security service.

Foreign citizens access

Citizens of foreign countries are allowed to enter the NPP construction site on the basis of a notification and a visit programme that is sent to the Customer or the General Contractor 45 days before the visit. The lists of delegations with the identification data and the titles of foreign citizens’ positions, as well as photocopies of the passport pages are attached to the notification.

NPP Information centre was established for conduct the outreach on “Nuclear power engineering and the NPP construction” for different groups of people: pupils, students, works, social organizations, mass media and authorities.

The major task of Information centre is to inform the population about nuclear power engineering and its objects, about nature of nuclear energy, the principles of NPP work.

Any collective visit of Information centre may be only by a provisional application.

Monday-Thursday - from 8.00 to 16.42

Friday - from 8.00 to 15.42

Break: 12.30 - 13.00

Day off: Saturday, Sunday

E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Adress: NPP Information Center

Ostrovec city, NPP construction sity, Demonstration unit of the BelNPP Training center

Telephone: +375 (1591) 46-699

REPORT on the results of radiation and environmental monitoring in the area of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant 2022

REPORT on the results of radiation and environmental monitoring in the area of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant 2023

REPORT Report on radiation-and-environmental monitoring in the area of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plan

Preview report on EIA of Belarusian NPP

Statement  on possible environmental impact of Belarusian NPP (page 1)

Final report on EIA of Belarusian NPP

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) of Belarusian NPP has been carried out in accordance with the requirements of environmental regulations and technical normative legal acts being in force in Republic of Belarus, and having taken into account the recommendations of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).  

Part 8.1. NPP Description

Part 8.2. Current condition of environment

Part 8.3. NPP environmental impact assessment

Contacts NPP LTE Ad hoc group

Belarus honors nuclear safety commitments

Legal foundation

The Republic of Belarus is party to international treaties and conventions, which are related to nuclear and radiation safety, and fulfills the measures they stipulate.

The number includes:

• Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management;
• Convention on Nuclear Safety;
• Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the International Atomic Energy Agency on using safeguards in view of the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty of 31 August 1995;
• Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material;
• Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident and Convention on Assistance in Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency;
• Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty;
• Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage;
• Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters;
• Convention on the Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

Honoring commitments in practice

The Republic of Belarus fully honors its commitments resulting from the abovementioned treaties and conventions. Every month nuclear materials and plants of the Republic of Belarus are inspected together with the IAEA.

National reports on fulfilling the Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management have been compiled and presented.

Control over the export of fresh and irradiated nuclear fuel of the movable nuclear power plant Pamir 630D to the Russian Federation has been enabled as well as the import of low-enriched nuclear fuel for research apparatus of the state-run United Nuclear and Energy Research Institute Sosny.

Important facts in brief:

Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is an important task, which requires international cooperation and stronger trust at all levels – the bilateral, regional, and global ones. The Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 is one of the instruments used to achieve the goal.

Belarus has been party to the Treaty since 1993. In line with the Treaty as a non-nuclear country Belarus undertakes not to make or purchase nuclear weapons or other explosive nuclear devices. Belarus undertakes not to solicit or accept aid in manufacturing such devices. In line with the Treaty Belarus undertook to sign the agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enable IAEA control over all the nuclear materials and prevent their use for manufacturing explosive nuclear devices.

The agreement between the Republic of Belarus and IAEA on using safeguards in view of the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (the agreement on safeguards) came into force in 1995. In line with the agreement Belarus declared the location, characteristics, and the usage of all the nuclear materials and the equipment that uses the materials. Belarus undertook to enable IAEA inspections of all such nuclear materials and equipment.
Since its inception the system of IAEA safeguards has been growing stronger thanks to regular introduction of new methods and ways to raise its effectiveness and functionality. In 1997 the IAEA worked out a supplementary protocol to the agreement on safeguards.

Source: Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry

The scheme of the power unit and safety systems of the Project NPP-2006 are notable for enhanced safety features and technical and economic indicators and fully complies with international norms and IAEA recommendations.

The project uses the latest tools and safety systems: four-channel safety systems (overlapping), melt localization device, double containment of the reactor building, hydrogen removal system, passive heat removal system; protection of the power plant from external influences is provided.

The high degree of safety of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is provided by many factors. The main of them are the principle of self-protection of the reactor system, the presence of several safety barriers and multiple overlapping of safety channels. It should be noted also the use of active (ie, requiring human intervention and the availability of energy sources) and passive (not requiring the intervention of an operator and an energy source) safety systems.

The safety system of modern Russian nuclear power plants consists of four barriers to the spread of ionizing radiation and radioactive substances in the environment. The first is a fuel matrix which prevents the release of the fission products under the fuel cladding. The second is the very fuel cladding, giving no fission products into the coolant to get the main circulation circuit. The third is the main circulation circuit, which prevents the output of the fission products under the protective hermetic shell. Finally, the fourth is a system of protective hermetic covers (containment), excluding the release of the fission products into the environment.

If something happens in the reactor hall, all the radioactivity will remain inside the shell. Containment stands the internal pressure of 5 kg/cm² and an external impact from the shock wave, creating pressure of 30 kPa, and the incident plane. That is, assuming that all the water supplied into the reactor turns into steam and, like in a giant kettle, will press on the cover from within, the cover will withstand this tremendous pressure also. Thus, the dome of the power unit is as if in constant readiness to stand in the breach from within. For this purpose, the cover is made of "prestressed concrete": metal wires, strung inside the concrete cover, make the structure stronger, increasing its stability. The volume of the containment is quite high – 75.000 cubic meters; the risk accumulation of hydrogen therein in explosive concentrations is considerably smaller than on NPP "Fukushima-1". In case of a crash, to reduce the vapor pressure inside the containment, a "sprinkler system" is mounted, which sprays a solution of boron and other substances from under the dome unit that prevent the expansion of radioactivity. At the same place  hydrogen recombiners are installed, which do not allow this gas to accumulate and exclude the possibility of an explosion. 

1, 2 – passive heat removal system; 

3 – emergency water tanks;

4 – emergency chemical feed system;

5 – hydrogen recombiners;

6 - hydrogen concentration monitoring sensors;

7 – safety valves;

8 – core catcher;

9 – water supply system;

10 – borated water storage tanks of JNK system;

11 – fittings on the core catcher communication line and JNK tanks.