Scheduled preventive maintenance of the second power unit of the Belarusian NPP has been completed in Belarus, the republic's Ministry of Energy reported. The power unit has been reconnected to the grid after part of the spent nuclear fuel was replaced with fresh fuel.
The ministry noted that annual scheduled preventive maintenance is carried out at nuclear power plants in line with international practice to maintain the stable condition of equipment. The Belarusian NPP is located near the town of Ostrovets in the Grodno Region and was built according to the Russian VVER-1200 design. The plant consists of two power units with a capacity of 1.2 GW each, and the general construction contractor was the ASE group of Rosatom.
The project was financed with the help of a Russian state loan in the amount of $10 billion. The first power unit was connected to the grid in November 2020 and commissioned for commercial operation in June 2021. The second power unit was connected to the grid in May 2023, and commercial operation began on November 1 of the same year.
Earlier, in November 2025, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Karankevich reported that during a meeting with President Alexander Lukashenko, a decision was made to build a third power unit at the Belarusian NPP. According to the Ministry of Energy's plans, the new unit may be connected to the country's power system in 2035-2038.