{"id":134145,"date":"2025-04-14T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/134145\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"minsk-moscow-set-up-working-group-for-another-nuclear-project-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/134145\/","title":{"rendered":"Minsk, Moscow set up working group for another nuclear project in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 14, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Belarusian and Russian officials are discussing adding a unit to the Astraviec Nuclear Power Plant or constructing another two-unit nuclear power plant in Mahilo\u016d region, Aleksei Polishchuk of the Russian foreign ministry told <em>Rossiya Segodnya<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A working group, formed to discuss the technical and financial conditions of the project, has already held several meetings on the location of the future facility, costs, type of reactors, construction timeline and other aspects, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made this comment amid reports of Minsk\u2019s preparation for talks with Moscow on building a second nuclear power plant in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These issues are also being discussed in other formats, including regular meetings between the management of Russia\u2019s Rosatom and the Belarusian government, the diplomat noted. The Belarusian energy ministry is expected to complete a feasibility study by mid-2025, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosatom built a nuclear power plant in Astraviec, Hrodna region, some 10 miles off the Lithuanian border, with a Russian loan. Lithuania views it as unsafe and describes it as a \u201cgeopolitical weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unit 1 started operation in 2020 and Unit 2, in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last two years, Belarusian leader Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has toyed with the idea of building another power plant or increasing the Astraviec plant\u2019s capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/132287\/\">Minsk preparing talks with Moscow on building a second nuclear power plant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, Pozirk. Belarusian and Russian officials are discussing adding a unit to the Astraviec Nuclear Power Plant or constructing another two-unit nuclear power plant in Mahilo\u016d region, Aleksei Polishchuk of the Russian foreign ministry told Rossiya Segodnya. A working group, formed to discuss the technical and financial conditions of the project, has already held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":62102,"template":"","rubric":[17],"class_list":["post-134145","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minsk, Moscow set up working group for another nuclear project in Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 14, Pozirk. 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