New town will have to be built and all country’s networks will have to be changed for nuclear power plant
Only a satellite town for employees of the nuclear power plant will cost “an additional” 600 million dollars. ERB has counted what other expenses the nuclear power plant will result in. Maybe that is why we get the sum of 8 or 12 billion dollars suddenly announced by the vice-president of “Atambudpraekt” Alyaksandr Hluhau during the exposition “Nuclear energy” in Minsk. Belarusians used to speak about some other sum – from 2.5 to 4 billions.
The Belarusian nuclear power plant is planned to have two 1000 MW reactors. However, ERB suddenly found out that the country’s networks were not powerful enough for such reactors. The deputy head of the Foreign Economic Policy department of the Scientific Research Institute in Nizhniy Novgorod Alexandr Zaglyadnov said it. This institute controls all Russian nuclear power plants:
“You do not have networks to serve the capacity of 1000 MW or 2000 MW. Such networks do not exist now. However, the problem can be solved. They will build them if necessary. First, networks will have to be changed and their capacity should be increased, but it means additional expenses. You just have to count the additional expenses caused by it”.
Interestingly, Belarusian scientists do not mention any additional expenses. They haven’t even said anything about the problem of networks…
Additional expenses will be needed to build a satellite town for employees of the nuclear power plant. An academician of the National Academy of Sciences Alyaksandr Mihalevich mentioned it:
“A settlement or a town has to be built near every big enterprise, be it a nuclear power plant or a thermoelectric power station. Of course, it will be built. People have to live somewhere and they need facilities… bath-houses, hair-dresser’s, canteens”.
An economist Leaned Zaika told ERB that such a town would cost 600 million dollars. The money for it can only be allocated from the budget:
“The nuclear power plant itself may cost up to 4 billion dollars. A satellite town will cost 10 of 15% of the sum. It will make about 300 or 600 million dollars”.
The vice-president of “Atambudpraekt” explains the sum of 12 billion dollars by “nuclear inflation”. According to Alyaksandr Hluhau, it is connected with the increasing demand for nuclear energy in the world. Alexandr Zaglyadnov says that the prime cost of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has already started increasing:
“The longer you are building, the more the money allocated for the construction is freezing. It does not pay for itself so the prime cost of the energy produced by the power unit is growing. Our task is to build the power unit as quickly as possible”.
- The cost of construction of a nuclear power plant varies in different countries. However there is a general tendency of the increasing cost, - says the deputy director general of the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research “Sosny” Mikalai Hrusha in his interview with ERB. That is why it is necessary to start the construction as soon as possible.
Nevertheless, the tender for construction of the nuclear power plant ahs not been announced yet. Maybe there will not be any. According to the law, a tender is obligatory, but Alyaksandr Mihalevich thinks that there can be other variants in our country:
“It is up to Alyaksandr Ryhoravich to decide. According to our legislation, there have to be tenders. The only person who can cancel tenders in favour of another procedure is the President”.
At the moment the tender is possible only between two countries - France and Russia. According to the deputy head of the Foreign Economic Policy department of the Scientific Research Institute in Nizhniy Novgorod, the difference between the French and the Russian reactors is in the cost of fuel.
Alexandr Zaglyadnov: “The French power unit has a bigger capacity – about 1500 MW. The Russian unit is 1000-1200 MW. The expenses for both of them are practically the same. The only thing that has to be mentioned is the delivery of fuel to the station. Russian fuel will be cheaper than fuel from Western Europe for Belarus. The expenses for its production are lower…”.
According to the atomic scientist, the Belarusian power unit will be used for 60 years. It will pay for itself in 12 or 15 years. Thus, the Belarusian nuclear power plant will have an economic effect only in 2030-2035, if you do not take into account the fact that the country will also have to pay the credit back.
The Belarusian nuclear power plant is planned to have two 1000 MW reactors. However, ERB suddenly found out that the country’s networks were not powerful enough for such reactors. The deputy head of the Foreign Economic Policy department of the Scientific Research Institute in Nizhniy Novgorod Alexandr Zaglyadnov said it. This institute controls all Russian nuclear power plants:
“You do not have networks to serve the capacity of 1000 MW or 2000 MW. Such networks do not exist now. However, the problem can be solved. They will build them if necessary. First, networks will have to be changed and their capacity should be increased, but it means additional expenses. You just have to count the additional expenses caused by it”.
Interestingly, Belarusian scientists do not mention any additional expenses. They haven’t even said anything about the problem of networks…
Additional expenses will be needed to build a satellite town for employees of the nuclear power plant. An academician of the National Academy of Sciences Alyaksandr Mihalevich mentioned it:
“A settlement or a town has to be built near every big enterprise, be it a nuclear power plant or a thermoelectric power station. Of course, it will be built. People have to live somewhere and they need facilities… bath-houses, hair-dresser’s, canteens”.
An economist Leaned Zaika told ERB that such a town would cost 600 million dollars. The money for it can only be allocated from the budget:
“The nuclear power plant itself may cost up to 4 billion dollars. A satellite town will cost 10 of 15% of the sum. It will make about 300 or 600 million dollars”.
The vice-president of “Atambudpraekt” explains the sum of 12 billion dollars by “nuclear inflation”. According to Alyaksandr Hluhau, it is connected with the increasing demand for nuclear energy in the world. Alexandr Zaglyadnov says that the prime cost of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has already started increasing:
“The longer you are building, the more the money allocated for the construction is freezing. It does not pay for itself so the prime cost of the energy produced by the power unit is growing. Our task is to build the power unit as quickly as possible”.
- The cost of construction of a nuclear power plant varies in different countries. However there is a general tendency of the increasing cost, - says the deputy director general of the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research “Sosny” Mikalai Hrusha in his interview with ERB. That is why it is necessary to start the construction as soon as possible.
Nevertheless, the tender for construction of the nuclear power plant ahs not been announced yet. Maybe there will not be any. According to the law, a tender is obligatory, but Alyaksandr Mihalevich thinks that there can be other variants in our country:
“It is up to Alyaksandr Ryhoravich to decide. According to our legislation, there have to be tenders. The only person who can cancel tenders in favour of another procedure is the President”.
At the moment the tender is possible only between two countries - France and Russia. According to the deputy head of the Foreign Economic Policy department of the Scientific Research Institute in Nizhniy Novgorod, the difference between the French and the Russian reactors is in the cost of fuel.
Alexandr Zaglyadnov: “The French power unit has a bigger capacity – about 1500 MW. The Russian unit is 1000-1200 MW. The expenses for both of them are practically the same. The only thing that has to be mentioned is the delivery of fuel to the station. Russian fuel will be cheaper than fuel from Western Europe for Belarus. The expenses for its production are lower…”.
According to the atomic scientist, the Belarusian power unit will be used for 60 years. It will pay for itself in 12 or 15 years. Thus, the Belarusian nuclear power plant will have an economic effect only in 2030-2035, if you do not take into account the fact that the country will also have to pay the credit back.
