The director of the "Rosatom" division in Belarus, Stanislav Levitsky, announced that the state corporation is negotiating the construction of a research reactor in the neighboring country.
Regarding the research reactor, an intergovernmental agreement is being worked out. The issue is complex, a comprehensive issue. For the project to be implemented, it must be based on a clear feasibility study. I know that in the near future we will have several rounds of negotiations, contacts with the National Academy of Sciences [of Belarus], with the involvement of other republican bodies to develop a more or less final configuration of the reactor, in what form we will implement it.
The Belarusian-Russian intergovernmental agreement on a research nuclear reactor in Belarus may be signed before the end of this year. The installation will be located at the Joint Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research in Sosny near Minsk.