Belarusian nuclear plant’s Unit 1 generates 10bn kWh

December 4, BPN. The Astraviec Nuclear Power Plant has generated 10 billion kilowatt-hours since its launch in November 2020, the Ministry of Energy reported.

“This is comparable to 45 percent of the annual electricity consumption by the real sector of the country’s economy. The generated electricity made it possible to replace 2.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas. The unit’s work made it possible to prevent 4.3 million tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere,” it said.

The power plant’s Unit 1 began supplying electricity to the grid on November 3, 2020. Despite scheduled and unscheduled outages, the facility produced nine billion kilowatt-hours by mid-April 2022. The unit was mostly idle for seven-and-a-half months. Its preventive maintenance lasted 198 days instead of the originally expected 80 days.