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The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a multi-reactor nuclear power plant project in Belarus. Initial plans were announced in the 1980s, but were suspended after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.〔 The drive for the current project was fueled by the Russia-Belarus energy dispute in 2007.〔 The project foresees construction of two nuclear reactors between 2016 and 2020, and probably two more reactors by 2025.〔 The reactors would be supplied by Atomstroyexport and the plant would be located in the Astravets district, Hrodna voblast.〔〔〔 The project has faced opposition on both safety and political grounds, because Belarus has never before built a nuclear power plant.〔〔 ==History== In the 1980s there were plans to build a nuclear heating and power plant in Rudensk, some south of the vicinity of Minsk. Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, these plans were halted.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Belarus: Nuclear Power Reactors in Belarus ) 〕 The plant was to comprise two VVER-1000 nuclear reactors, designed to provide both electricity and heat for the city of Minsk. The reactors would each have had a power rating of 900 MW net and 940 MW gross capacity.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Nuclear Power Reactor Details - MINSK-1 (Dual Purpose) ) 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Nuclear Power Reactor Details - MINSK-2 ) 〕 The nuclear initiative was revitalized after Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union. On 22 December 1992, Belarus announced its intention to build nuclear power plants and started a program to examine 15 possible sites. It was foreseen that the first unit of 500-600 MW would be commissioned by 2005, and additional units with a combined capacity of 1,000 MW by 2005 and 2010. However, no decision concerning site or reactor type was made.〔 In 1999, the Government of Belarus adopted nuclear moratorium.〔 On 2 May 2002, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated that Belarus would not construct a nuclear power plant on its territory, but was interested in purchasing nuclear power from Russia, and in the possibility of constructing a Belarus-owned reactor at the Smolensk nuclear power plant in Russia.〔 〕 However, in mid 2006, the Government of Belarus approved a plan for the construction of an initial 2000 MWe nuclear power plant in the Mahilyow Voblast using pressurized water reactors technology.〔 〕 After the Russia-Belarus energy dispute in 2007, Lukashenko re-declared that to ensure national energy security, Belarus needed to build its own nuclear power plant.〔 〕 The Belarusian Security Council made the decision to construct a nuclear power plant on 15 January 2008.〔 〕 According to the presidential decree signed in January 2008, the first reactor of the nuclear power plant should be operational by 2016, and the second one by 2018.〔 〕〔 〕 The Nuclear Power Act, covering the design and construction of nuclear facilities, the security, safety, and physical protection of such facilities, and their regulation (and also prohibiting the production of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosives), was adopted by the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on 25 June 2008.〔 〕 In June 2007, Russia offered a US$2 billion credit line for the purchasing of equipment from Russia's Power Machines Company.〔〔 〕 In January 2009, it was decided that the nuclear power plant will be built by Atomstroyexpoert and the Russian loan was agreed in February 2009.〔〔 On 27 February 2008, Iran announced that it is ready to provide assistance to Belarus in the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant in areas such as funding, personnel training, the sharing of experience, the installation of equipment, and training in operating such equipment.〔 〕 On 1 July 2009, a Ukrainian NGO sent a complaint to the Implementation Committee of the Espoo Convention alleging numerous violations of the Espoo Convention. In particular, the complaint argues that Belarus is in violation of the requirements of the Convention by pre-defining two key alternatives of the nuclear power plant construction – location and no-action alternative, as well as by not establishing an environmental impact assessment procedure that permits public participation.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Complaint about Belarus NPP under Espoo Convention ) 〕 In December 2009 European ECO Forum Legal Focal Points submitted a complaint to the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention challenging legality of NPP construction due to violation of public participation rights provided by the Aarhus Convention.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters ) 〕 On 22 January 2011 the news was released that the contract for the Belarusian NPP will be signed in the first quarter of 2011 with Rosatom.〔 〕 On June 2012 the construction of the foundation pit for the nuclear power plant started near the small village of Shulniki in the Astravets district, Hrodna region, some 10 miles from the Lithuanian border.〔 〕 Both on March and April 2013 journalists where not permitted to visit the construction site. On March 2013 Radio Svaboda’s correspondent Mikhail Karnevich received official permission to make a report about the construction of the station. But when he came to Astravets, he found out that he would not be able to visit the construction site.〔 〕 On April 2013 journalists Ales Barazenka and Nastaśsia Jaūmien have been detained in Astravets where they were filming the nuclear power plant construction and have been asked an "intelligible explanation to the fact of filming the construction works".〔 〕 The first nuclear concrete for Unit 1 was poured on 6 November 2013. The second unit started construction 8 months later. Construction of each unit is expected to take about five years. In November 2015 refused to allow Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant to be used as reserve for Belarusian nuclear power plant.〔(Lietuva nesuteiks Baltarusijai galimybės naudotis Kruonio HAE )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belarusian nuclear power plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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