{"id":44560,"date":"2022-11-19T21:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-backs-draft-nuclear-waste-deal-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-backs-draft-nuclear-waste-deal-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44560\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka backs draft nuclear waste deal with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>November 19, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka signed an edict approving a draft agreement between the governments of Belarus and Russia on cooperation in spent nuclear fuel management. The National Legal Internet Portal published the edict on November 19.<\/p>\n<p> \u0141uka\u0161enka authorized the energy ministry to negotiate the deal.<\/p>\n<p> The Astraviec Nuclear Power Plant\u2019s first power unit started to produce electricity in test mode on November 3, 2020. It was put into commercial operation on June 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p> It has not been sending electricity to the grid since late April, when maintenance began at the unit. Four months later, officials said maintenance was completed, but in reality it continued.<\/p>\n<p> On December 22, 2021 nuclear fuel was loaded into the second unit\u2019s reactor. Its commercial operation was expected to begin by summer 2022, but this hasn\u2019t materialized so far.<\/p>\n<p> Back in March 2011, Minsk and Moscow agreed that the spent fuel from the Belarusian power plant would be returned to Russia for reprocessing. In August 2019, the Council of Ministers approved a strategy for handling spent nuclear fuel, prioritizing its reprocessing in Russia, with waste returning to Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>On November 8, 2021 the governments of Belarus and Russia signed an agreement on cooperation in the transportation of nuclear materials. It came into force on May 31, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 19, BPN. Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka signed an edict approving a draft agreement between the governments of Belarus and Russia on cooperation in spent nuclear fuel management. The National Legal Internet Portal published the edict on November 19. \u0141uka\u0161enka authorized the energy ministry to negotiate the deal. The Astraviec Nuclear Power Plant\u2019s first power unit started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-44560","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>\u0141uka\u0161enka backs draft nuclear waste deal with Russia | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 19, BPN. 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