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[00:00:30] In Petrykau and Svetlahorsk, a ban has been imposed on visiting forest
[00:00:33] areas. In other districts of Homel region, visits are
[00:00:36] restricted. More news in our mobile application on the
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[00:04:55] technology, thousands of jobs and new growth
[00:04:59] points. Today the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant generates about
[00:05:02] 40% of all electricity in the country. With the launch
[00:05:05] of the reactors, we have reduced our dependence on imported gas, saved
[00:05:09] billions in foreign currency and laid the foundations.
[00:05:16] How has Belarus's energy balance changed, what is happening with
[00:05:19] tariffs for spent fuel, are we planning
[00:05:22] the construction of a second nuclear power plant? We will discuss this with
[00:05:26] experts right
[00:05:27] now.
[00:05:36] Today in our studio are experts who are well-versed in
[00:05:39] nuclear energy issues.
[00:05:42] The Minister of Energy, Stanislav Levitsky,
[00:05:46] director of the country office of Rosatom State Corporation in
[00:05:49] Belarus, Boris Paramonov, Deputy
[00:05:52] General Director of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant.
[00:05:56] Dear guests, we are glad to see you in the Economic Environment studio.
[00:06:00] Today we are discussing nuclear energy, and preparing for
[00:06:03] the broadcast, I found out that in the world about 30
[00:06:07] countries are developing nuclear energy, and
[00:06:10] Belarus, I proudly say this,
[00:06:20] Well, look, you correctly pointed out that today even more than 30
[00:06:23] countries are developing nuclear energy, operating nuclear energy.
[00:06:27] It is very important to note that another 15
[00:06:30] countries are building new nuclear
[00:06:33] power plants today. Among these 15 countries there are countries
[00:06:37] that have not operated a nuclear power plant until now, they are just
[00:06:40] entering this nuclear club. Here we can name Uzbekistan, we can name
[00:06:44] Kazakhstan, we can name the same Egypt, and other
[00:06:47] countries, and the point is that we need to think, why are
[00:06:51] countries entering this nuclear club? We, as a
[00:06:54] country that already operates a nuclear power plant, can
[00:06:58] clearly understand what effects the operation of nuclear
[00:07:01] power plants has on the economy of our country, what, first of all,
[00:07:05] of course, it is in the field of energy. The fact is that a nuclear power plant is an absolutely
[00:07:09] reliable and environmentally friendly source of energy, which,
[00:07:12] for example, today provides 40%
[00:07:16] of all electricity consumed in our country. In addition, the construction of a nuclear power plant
[00:07:19] means new technologies, new
[00:07:23] jobs, and most importantly - it is the global
[00:07:26] transformation of the regions where the nuclear
[00:07:29] power plant is being built. A very striking example is our city of Ostrovets.
[00:07:33] Ostrovets in 2010
[00:07:36] and Ostrovets in 2026 are completely two different cities. If in
[00:07:39] 2010 about 8
[00:08:12] a reliable source of green energy, I would still
[00:08:15] look in a slightly different direction, towards the systemic global
[00:08:19] development of Belarus, towards the systemic global development of society. Rosatom
[00:08:22] acts not only as a vendor and not so much as a vendor and a seller
[00:08:26] of some solutions, we bring the possibility
[00:08:29] of technological development, of advanced development. What
[00:08:33] does nuclear energy provide now? It's not just energy, it's new jobs,
[00:08:36] it's new technologies, including breakthrough ones. We won't dwell
[00:08:40] solely on the topic of energy. Nuclear
[00:08:43] energy is a kind of trunk, but from it there are already a mass of branches that are already
[00:08:47] branching out and developing in the republic, which have brought complementary
[00:08:50] nuclear energy technologies that were ultimately born
[00:08:53] in the nuclear industry of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, and now
[00:08:57] are bearing fruit for the republic. By the way, we can talk about a direct economic effect. You
[00:09:01] know how we, Rosatom, differ from many of our foreign
[00:09:05] competitors: we go into very deep localization.
[00:09:09] We have a methodology that proves with numbers that every
[00:09:12] dollar spent on the construction of a plant, the economy, depending
[00:09:16] on the degree of localization, in the Republic of Belarus it was
[00:09:19] extremely deep, there was, I believe, up to 40%
[00:09:22] done in the Republic of Belarus by Belarusian organizations and by the hands
[00:09:26] of Belarusians, for every dollar, the economy brings in from
[00:09:29] 1.8 to 2.2 dollars.
[00:09:32] Boris Petrovich, what do you think? First of all, I want to emphasize
[00:09:36] that it is green energy, what does green mean?
[00:09:39] That is, green, of course, there is also wind energy, yes.
[00:09:42] Solar energy, but a nuclear power plant has a number of advantages
[00:09:46] over these sources, because it is a safe, reliable,
[00:09:50] uninterrupted source that operates at base nominal
[00:09:53] capacity, it does not depend, so to speak, on the wind that blows today,
[00:09:57] and is gone tomorrow, it does not depend on the energy of the sun, which is gone
[00:09:59] tomorrow, and if you look at the overall
[00:10:03] ecological effect, then yes, due to saving natural
[00:10:07] gas for our economy, the plant reduces greenhouse gas
[00:10:10] emissions by about 7 million tons per... that is, there is also an effect in
[00:10:14] ecology, yes, this is very important, but agree, we
[00:10:18] are talking about social effects, economic
[00:10:21] effects, about technologies, about
[00:10:24] ecology, about trust in peaceful atom, but
[00:10:27] the strategic scale of these changes, the key results
[00:10:30] of the project were noted by our president. Pay attention to the screen. 5
[00:10:34] years ago, solemnly launching the first
[00:10:38] Belarusian nuclear power plant in
[00:10:41] Ostrovets, the country entered a new
[00:10:44] era. The construction of the NPP
[00:10:48] not only strengthened our energy
[00:10:51] security, but also determined the further development
[00:10:55] of Belarus as a high-tech
[00:10:57] state. If you will, the presence of its own nuclear
[00:11:01] power plant in the country is, in a certain sense,
[00:11:04] a way to ensure sovereignty and
[00:11:08] independence. During all the time of its operation, the plant
[00:11:11] generated more than 53 billion
[00:11:15] kilowatt-hours of electricity, which allowed
[00:11:18] us to completely abandon electricity
[00:11:22] imports. It also managed to reduce.
[00:12:25] The industrial operation of the nuclear power plant began in
[00:12:28] 2021. It was precisely in June 2021 that the act
[00:12:32] of commissioning the first power unit was signed. From that period, we
[00:12:35] consider that the nuclear power plant is fully operational in our
[00:12:39] country. During this time, the share of electrical energy
[00:12:43] generated at the power plant has gradually grown. This year,
[00:12:46] in the previous year, 40%
[00:12:50] of all electricity consumed in our country was generated at the
[00:12:53] nuclear power plant. The share within the existing nuclear
[00:12:56] power plant cannot increase further, because we operate at
[00:13:00] nominal capacity throughout the year. We
[00:13:03] operate as the so-called base in
[00:13:06] the Belarusian energy system, that is, after being loaded
[00:13:09] after planned preventive maintenance, we operate at
[00:13:13] nominal load until the next planned preventive maintenance. Therefore,
[00:13:16] structurally, the balance of electrical energy here will not
[00:13:20] conceptually change. What provoked the appearance of such...
[00:13:25] a Belarusian nuclear power plant, such a source of energy, it provoked
[00:13:28] a rapid growth in electricity consumption. Over the past 5 years, our
[00:13:32] electricity consumption has significantly increased. In
[00:13:35] 2024-25, we set a record
[00:13:39] for electricity consumption for the entire period of our country's independence,
[00:13:43] more than 43 billion kilowatt-hours. This year,
[00:13:46] we are growing by approximately 3% compared to
[00:13:50] 2025, and I am absolutely convinced that this year we will definitely
[00:13:54] add to... energy, of course,
[00:13:56] needs to be satisfied, but the following situation arises:
[00:14:04] when there is an energy source, there is a consumer who is interested in
[00:14:08] this energy, but networks are needed to transmit this electricity
[00:14:12] from the source to the consumer. So,
[00:14:15] the electrical networks through which the transportation of electricity
[00:14:18] takes place, they have quite
[00:14:22] a long period of operation and, of course, in those periods
[00:14:26] when they were designed and built, and the lion's share of them was built during the time of the
[00:14:30] Soviet Union, there were no even thoughts that
[00:14:33] electrical energy could be consumed for such needs. Well, I'll just
[00:14:37] say for reference that, for example, the use of electrical energy for heating
[00:14:40] and hot water supply, today we are all used to this, we hear
[00:14:44] about it, more than
[00:14:46] 175 thousand households in our country today
[00:14:50] use electrical energy for heating and hot water supply. So, until
[00:14:54] 2000. Nineteenth year, until the period when we were preparing for
[00:14:57] the launch of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, the use
[00:15:00] of electrical energy for these needs in our country was generally prohibited, that is,
[00:15:04] it was not possible to use electrical energy for these needs. The appearance of the nuclear power plant
[00:15:08] created prerequisites for its use. Today
[00:15:11] - for these needs in our country, about
[00:15:14] 1,200 million kilowatt-hours per year are spent.
[00:15:18] Out of 43 billion in total across the country, 1
[00:15:21] billion 200 million is only what the population spends on heating needs.
[00:16:18] networks in 5 years, for the period 26-30, for this
[00:16:22] five-year plan, we set ourselves the task of 18,500 km
[00:16:25] of electrical networks, that is, an increase of almost one and a half times. This is
[00:16:29] the contribution we are making in order to now provide reliable and efficient
[00:16:32] transmission of the electricity source that we have acquired.
[00:16:36] the use of distributed
[00:16:57] grid storage systems, which
[00:17:01] allow you to reduce capital costs for modernization, ensure
[00:17:04] uninterrupted operation. Today
[00:17:07] a revolution is taking place in the energy sector in terms
[00:17:10] of the application of storage systems, namely industrial
[00:17:14] systems, for solving production tasks for
[00:17:16] energy engineers, and today the State Corporation, having built two
[00:17:20] powerful factories for the production
[00:17:22] of storage systems, we are working with them on the possibility
[00:17:26] of using storage devices to solve and untangle this knot, but
[00:17:30] in what part are storage devices used, are they placed with the consumer, are they
[00:17:34] placed in the middle of this chain? Absolutely correct
[00:17:37] question. Let's then move a little to the physics of the process, but in simple
[00:17:40] terms. Absolutely true, you don't need to make
[00:17:43] a thicker cable, relatively speaking, you install a storage device that
[00:17:46] at night, when industrial enterprises are mostly sleeping, it accumulates
[00:17:50] energy, and during the day it gives it to the consumer. It needs to be placed at the
[00:17:54] point where it is beneficial for both energy companies and the consumer. There is a special mathematical
[00:17:57] model that calculates, relatively speaking, somewhere near the substation
[00:18:01] it is needed, and somewhere near the consumer, on the contrary, a storage system should be installed, but
[00:18:05] thanks to the fact that you save on...
[00:18:37] our software, our technical solutions, and this is
[00:18:40] a joint project that can be tested in the Republic
[00:18:44] of Belarus, and most importantly, it has huge export
[00:18:48] potential to third countries. Boris Petrovich, well, since we are talking
[00:18:51] about redundancy, yes, about
[00:18:54] how to balance our
[00:18:57] energy system, well, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me
[00:19:00] that the reliability of the energy system largely depends
[00:19:04] on the balance of reserves, yes. Please tell me, well...
[00:20:38] Stanislav Grigoryevich, well, we are talking about our Belarusian nuclear
[00:20:41] power plant, but let's be frank, let's call a spade a spade, in
[00:20:45] essence it is a flagship project
[00:20:48] of the Union State.
[00:21:00] Rosatom and the Ministry of Energy, some of which have already
[00:21:03] been noted here, but looking ahead, dear
[00:21:06] experts, tell me honestly, is a third power unit
[00:21:09] of the Belarusian nuclear power plant planned, or
[00:21:13] the construction of a second nuclear power plant? Let's divide
[00:21:16] the question, because a lot can be said about both.
[00:21:20] Alexander Grigoryevich, whose speech we
[00:21:23] heard, once said wonderful words, when, if I'm not mistaken,
[00:21:27] the second unit was just being commissioned, he said: I don't want to let
[00:21:30] you go, to Alexey Evgenyevich Likhachev, Alexey Evgenyevich left
[00:21:34] the event, gave instructions, and as a result, we created
[00:21:37] a strategic document, a comprehensive program of Russian-Belarusian
[00:21:41] cooperation in the field of nuclear energy and non-nuclear
[00:21:45] projects. What is it, in essence, right? Because the name is beautiful,
[00:21:48] loud, it's...
[00:21:50] a tool for developing potential partnership projects
[00:21:54] and directions. There were more than 10 of them, and
[00:21:57] more than forty projects are being implemented and developed.
[00:22:01] Let's name the most promising in which areas, why
[00:22:04] promising, we can already name the actually implemented ones, right, these two
[00:22:08] truly beautiful, bright projects, these are additive
[00:22:11] technologies center, this is a center that, in essence,
[00:22:15] implemented a full-fledged technological transfer to the Republic
[00:22:18] of Belarus of all, absolutely, additive technology conversions. Now
[00:22:22] here not only printing services are provided, now here also
[00:22:25] 3D printers are assembled for metal printing, and this is a
[00:22:28] technology that globally, at the level
[00:22:31] currently held by Belarus, is possessed by literally fewer than five
[00:22:35] countries. Energy projects and simulator manufacturing, well, each
[00:22:38] nuclear power plant, in its basic configuration, includes a special
[00:22:41] simulator, like in aviation, so to speak, absolutely true, and I would even say
[00:22:45] more complex than aviation, the only thing, thank God, there are no manipulators that
[00:22:48] pull, although maybe...
[00:24:20] it was precisely then that all countries were rolling back their nuclear programs. Today, at
[00:24:23] the beginning of our broadcast, we discussed that today the vector has shifted in another
[00:24:27] direction. Those who were rolling back nuclear programs have fallen behind, more than
[00:24:31] 15 years behind. Today they will have to catch up with us, and we
[00:24:34] are at this point, today we operate the Belarusian nuclear
[00:24:37] power plant. You showed a fragment of the President's speech, precisely
[00:24:41] the meeting on November 14th. I was present at that meeting, where
[00:24:44] the question was discussed, what will happen next with energy in the Republic of Belarus?
[00:24:48] We noted that we have effects
[00:25:02] in the economy from the nuclear power plant, we need to continue
[00:25:05] developing this direction, and a fundamental decision was made,
[00:25:09] these decisions are essentially two: first,
[00:25:12] we need to develop the Belarusian nuclear power plant and
[00:25:15] implement a third power unit there, a complete copy of what
[00:25:18] is implemented today as the first and second power units, and in parallel
[00:25:22] begin to work on the issue of
[00:25:24] constructing a nuclear power plant.
[00:25:27] Approximately or tentatively, the discussion is about a site in
[00:25:31] Mogilev region. This is not yet firmly fixed, because there is a corresponding
[00:25:34] procedure for selecting this site, but we understand that based on geological
[00:25:38] grounds, we will most likely be doing something in this area.
[00:25:42] Some may ask
[00:25:45] why we are pursuing both solutions in parallel.
[00:25:49] The fact is that they are very far apart in time. If we
[00:25:53] implement the project as a third power unit at the Belarusian nuclear
[00:25:56] power plant, these are clear conditions, clear requirements. I repeat
[00:25:59] that this is a copy of those units that were implemented
[00:26:03] within the framework of the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, and the implementation times
[00:26:06] are quite clear and short. In the case that we are talking about
[00:26:10] a second nuclear power plant, this is a new project, a new
[00:26:13] site, new selection
[00:26:15] of this site, and so on, and this extends beyond
[00:26:18] 2040. But the decision on this
[00:26:22] construction needs to be made now and this work needs to be done, because
[00:26:25] energy is not an industry that lives by reacting
[00:26:29] to today's problems. Energy is an industry that
[00:26:33] reacts to problems that will arise in 10-15
[00:26:37] years. Our current energy system, its
[00:26:39] configuration is capable of withstanding the development of the Belarusian economy
[00:26:43] at the pace it is developing, beyond
[00:26:46] 2040. But in order to ensure the next stage
[00:26:50] of development, by the 2040s, we need to
[00:26:53] have a new structure for Belarusian generation. Do I understand correctly that
[00:26:56] here the question is not whether a third
[00:26:59] power unit or a second nuclear power plant.
[00:27:10] The decision and instruction that Alexander
[00:27:14] Grigoryevich formulated sounded exactly like that: that it is necessary to implement the third unit in
[00:27:17] Ostrovets and to work on the issue of building nuclear
[00:27:21] power plant number two. To work on the issue means that we need
[00:27:25] to determine the configuration of this nuclear power plant, not the question
[00:27:29] of whether it is needed or not, the question of configuration, what power.
[00:27:40] several alternative options on the table, so that the decision-maker
[00:27:44] can weigh
[00:27:47] all circumstances. We'll take a short commercial break, after which
[00:27:51] we will find out what happens to spent nuclear fuel and why
[00:27:54] planned shutdowns of BelAES power units are not an accident, but a safety
[00:27:58] measure. Don't
[00:27:59] switch.
[00:28:18] residents and guests of the capital how they feel about the development of peaceful atom in
[00:28:22] our country and what results they note. Let's
[00:28:25] watch.
[00:28:28] How do you feel about the fact that nuclear energy is generally being developed now?
[00:28:32] New technologies, a lot of electric, we
[00:28:35] now have gadgets, everything, that is, in principle, it's generally
[00:28:39] super. I am a citizen of Russia, we have been living here for
[00:28:42] 15 years, we are very satisfied with everything, and I want to say
[00:28:45] that if you take into account the tariffs here in Belarus and
[00:28:49] in Russia, it's certainly more profitable to live here. Well, are there any results
[00:28:53] from this, that is, I don't know, electricity tariffs have become
[00:28:56] lower, I haven't noticed any difference in money or anything, yes, the tariff there
[00:29:00] is lower, but... I think everything is fine, tariffs
[00:29:04] are lower, yes, gas supply, well, it also
[00:29:06] gets more expensive, but overall, it seems to me that now everything is
[00:29:10] based on electricity, generally
[00:29:13] the smart home itself, everything is on electricity, well, if
[00:29:17] it's developing, then there is a big plus in this for our country,
[00:29:20] well, I have a good attitude, because
[00:29:23] probably still our own electricity,
[00:29:26] it's still cheaper and the state somehow
[00:29:30] subsidizes it, I never...
[00:31:03] I think that it's not a reliable way, because
[00:31:07] electricity, if you turn it off, then nothing
[00:31:10] works at all, well, probably
[00:31:11] not.
[00:32:45] Naturally, in a highly competitive world,
[00:32:47] where there are many actors who try to promote their
[00:32:51] technologies and get a bonus for their economies, there is
[00:32:55] certain competition, some, well, not entirely possibly conscientious
[00:32:58] use different methods of information and communication
[00:33:01] strategies that try to instill
[00:33:05] some negative patterns in people's souls, we should treat this calmly, we at least
[00:33:09] can certainly say that in the Republic of Belarus
[00:33:13] those solutions are used that were implemented according to the requirements for ensuring
[00:33:27] the safety of absolutely any experts, and we guarantee that
[00:33:31] safe operation will continue, well, how long did we promise, 60 years,
[00:33:35] with an extension to 100, Denis Ravilievich, well, I can't help but
[00:33:38] ask you about tariffs again, because we heard that many people are concerned about
[00:33:42] tariffs, which is natural.
[00:33:45] So, if we aggregate, look at it systemically, please tell me,
[00:33:48] what influence does nuclear energy in our country
[00:33:52] have on tariffs for the population and the real sector, first
[00:33:55] of all, industrial enterprises? As for tariffs, the question is, of course,
[00:33:59] not simple and not on the surface.
[00:34:01] You heard what people said, and you
[00:34:05] saw that there is, well, such a slightly different opinion, yes, some say that electricity
[00:34:09] is very cheap, some say no, it's probably expensive, right, and the difference
[00:34:12] is small, what is this related to? The fact is that when
[00:34:15] atomic energy generation appeared in our
[00:34:19] country, we followed the following path: we did not raise, change,
[00:34:22] or lower the cost of electricity for traditional
[00:34:26] sectors, but for those new sectors that appeared,
[00:34:30] which did not exist before, which needed to be stimulated in terms of their further
[00:34:33] development, we there formed so-called preferential
[00:34:37] tariffs or reduced tariffs for the use of electrical energy. The most striking
[00:34:40] example, understandable to the layman, is the use of electrical energy
[00:34:44] for heating. water supply, that is, if you use this
[00:34:47] electricity for these purposes, then you have two possibilities of getting
[00:34:51] tariffs, very small ones, something around 5 kopecks and around 12 kopecks,
[00:34:54] if you have one meter for everything necessary, while it's
[00:34:58] more than 26 kopecks per 1 kilowatt-hour
[00:35:02] if you do not use electricity for these needs. Similar approaches are used in
[00:35:05] industry. We have preferential tariffs for energy-intensive
[00:35:09] enterprises, that is, if an enterprise consumes a large amount of electrical energy,
[00:35:13] more than 15 million kilowatt-hours,
[00:35:45] could afford to have electric vehicles, which today we have in the country, well,
[00:35:48] today on the roads of the country, more than
[00:35:51] 65,000 cars run with
[00:35:55] electric drive. At the beginning of this year, there were
[00:35:58] 50,000 cars, we are
[00:36:00] growing at a fairly serious pace, we are setting ourselves the
[00:36:04] fundamental task of reaching about 300,000 cars by
[00:36:08] 2030, this will create another
[00:36:11] sector of electricity consumption and most importantly, it is...
[00:36:15] a multiplicative effect again - the environmental load is significantly
[00:36:18] reduced, because electric vehicles have no emissions, no
[00:36:22] oils, no maintenance, and so on. And besides, it is a
[00:36:26] reduction of necessary oil imports
[00:36:30] for obtaining the same fuel for the engine.
[00:36:33] Stanislav Grigoryevich, well, when we communicate with people, of course, we also
[00:36:37] felt that people were concerned about safety issues, but safety
[00:36:41] issues also include those
[00:36:44] products, that fuel, which is used in a nuclear
[00:36:47] power plant. In a nutshell, people are concerned about the fate
[00:36:51] of nuclear waste from our Belarus. Please tell me, we
[00:36:55] talked about Rosatom's high technologies, right?
[00:36:58] Are closed-cycle technologies generally applicable
[00:37:01] in this industry, and does
[00:37:05] Rosatom have enough competencies to solve such
[00:37:08] problems? First, nuclear
[00:37:12] power always produces waste, that's clear.
[00:37:16] All countries operating nuclear power plants face this
[00:37:19] problem, and they apply some solutions.
[00:37:22] This includes waste storage and long-term disposal.
[00:37:26] This also includes processing. Rosatom, and you
[00:37:30] rightly pointed this out, has gone, and it is probably the only
[00:37:33] company in the world that is implementing
[00:37:37] within the "Breakthrough" project the concept of a closed nuclear fuel
[00:37:40] cycle, where spent nuclear fuel, from
[00:37:44] which highly toxic radioactive waste is separated, is
[00:37:47] re-burned within a special cycle, and uranium is regenerated and
[00:37:51] returned to the fuel cycle. Not only does this greatly
[00:37:54] compact the waste and remove the most to...
[00:40:57] we started talking about our opponents, about these information
[00:41:01] attacks, and so on. We know that planned shutdowns
[00:41:04] of power units at our nuclear power plants are constantly being presented
[00:41:08] by destructive forces as accidents, they escalate
[00:41:11] the situation in various ways. Let's clarify
[00:41:15] why planned,
[00:41:17] regulated reactor maintenance is essentially
[00:41:21] a guarantee of safety, and not a reason for panic. Well,
[00:41:25] in fact, as a plant worker, I...
[00:41:42] The fuel cycle at the plant is 12 months, meaning that every
[00:41:46] 12 months we must remove
[00:41:49] part of the spent fuel from the reactor
[00:41:52] and replace it with new, fresh nuclear fuel. This is approximately
[00:41:56] a quarter of all fuel, about
[00:41:59] 42 fuel assemblies.
[00:42:03] Furthermore, from an economic point of view, in order not to stop
[00:42:06] the power unit again for some technical work, during
[00:42:10] this period, scheduled preventive maintenance is carried out. This
[00:42:14] means that all plant equipment involved in operation
[00:42:18] undergoes technical maintenance, repair,
[00:42:21] and diagnostics precisely so that the next 12-month
[00:42:25] fuel cycle runs in normal mode without
[00:42:28] any violations. All repairs are carried out by
[00:42:31] specialized Russian and Belarusian
[00:42:34] organizations. That is, it can be compared, in principle, on a household
[00:42:38] level, let's go back to the same
[00:42:55] that our people can be reassured that they do not need to
[00:42:58] listen, they do not need to read, do not read enemy
[00:43:02] newspapers at dinner, you need to trust reliable
[00:43:05] mass media and then your mental
[00:43:08] system will be... in order
[00:43:11] and you will read the truth about what is happening in the world. Dear
[00:43:14] experts, summarizing our conversation, how do you
[00:43:18] see the nuclear power industry of our country in the future? Denis
[00:43:21] Ravikovich, well, given that this is a summary, yes, I would say
[00:43:24] that nuclear power in our country is a safe
[00:43:28] and reliable system that meets the needs of
[00:43:31] the economy. Stanislav Grigoryevich, we are
[00:43:34] building nuclear industries abroad
[00:43:37] together. Boris Petrovich. Well, since our
[00:43:40] nuclear power plant is still young, the average age of an employee is 39 years old, so I see,
[00:44:17] Our specialists receive education at the university.
[00:44:21] Our educational institution is called the University of Civil
[00:44:23] Protection. This is a departmental educational
[00:44:26] institution. It has quite extensive experience in training
[00:44:30] specialists, quite good traditions
[00:44:33] of training specifically practical specialists who
[00:44:37] are ready, after receiving an education,
[00:44:40] to perform tasks, practical tasks for
[00:44:43] preventing and eliminating emergencies. Our educational
[00:44:46] institution trains specialists in key
[00:44:49] specialties: prevention and elimination of emergencies,
[00:44:53] as well as fire and industrial safety. These
[00:44:56] areas are indeed quite
[00:44:59] practice-oriented, so we have a whole system for training personnel, which
[00:45:02] recently celebrated its
[00:45:05] ninetieth anniversary. We have a number of methods and...
[00:45:40] truly in conditions close to reality. We
[00:45:43] have a very good training ground
[00:45:47] where we can simulate a whole range of emergency situations
[00:45:50] of various types. And this training ground is also
[00:45:53] used in training, starting from
[00:45:57] the first courses of cadet training
[00:46:00] throughout the entire training program.
[00:46:04] And indeed, this, probably,
[00:46:07] requires such qualities of character as -
[00:46:52] has its own track, that is, its own issues for cooperation,
[00:46:55] its own specifics. Somewhere it's an
[00:46:59] exchange of cadets, somewhere we exchange
[00:47:03] experience based on the results of scientific research, somewhere
[00:47:06] we help with organizing specialist training.
[00:47:10] These can be short-term training programs, it can be classical
[00:47:14] education over four years
[00:47:17] in the field of higher education. And so,
[00:47:20] quite active cooperation is underway.
[00:48:53] elite, which is currently in power in the European Union,
[00:48:56] will come to its senses and begin to reformat itself. They have
[00:48:59] one rhetoric: to pump
[00:49:02] Ukraine with weapons so that it resists and fights Russia as
[00:49:06] long as possible. We have strong and powerful
[00:49:09] allies: the Russian Federation and China. We must not
[00:49:13] forget that besides these 50 Western
[00:49:16] countries, from which I personally suggest
[00:49:19] isolating ourselves, there are 150 other countries. The entire
[00:49:22] planet is open. Belarus is creating a peace coalition
[00:49:26] that should ensure stability in our region and
[00:49:29] use all available resources of sound forces
[00:49:33] of the world. Project objectively. Don't miss new
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