Likhachev announced the final stage of negotiations on the third block of BelNPP

Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom, said that the Government of Belarus discussed the technical appearance, financial, economic and organizational model of the third power unit of the Belarusian NPP. According to him, the parties are in the final stage of negotiations and very close to the final results, but the time for official announcements has not yet come. This is reported by BelTA.

Likhachev stressed that the technological configuration of the project has already been determined - it will be a VVER-1200 reactor, the flagship export product of Rosatom.

The Russian side intends to increase the level of localization and the role of Belarusian partners. For Rosatom, the priority will be to optimize the technical solution to ensure a more attractive cost of electricity, as well as efficient and stable operation of the unit using the best practices applied in Russia.

Cooperation between the two countries is not limited to energy. The Center for Additive Technologies already operates in Belarus, where dozens of Russian-Belarusian printers are supplied. Work is underway to create a holistic cluster of nuclear medicine for the treatment of cancer, cardiac and neurological diseases, and not just the supply of radioisotopes. Agreements were signed on the supply of energy storage systems and components for electric movement to the BELAZ and MAZ plants. In addition, the parties are discussing interaction in the digital sphere and quantum technologies.

The decision to build a third unit at the site in Ostrovets was made at a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in November 2025.

It is expected that final agreements will be reached in the coming months, and the commissioning of the power unit is scheduled for the period 2035-2038.

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