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Monday, April 20, 2020

Hot Testing Complete At Belarusian-1, Says Russia’s Rosatom :: The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency

Hot Testing Complete At Belarusian-1, Says Russia’s Rosatom :: The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency: Hot testing has been completed at Unit 1 of the first nuclear power plant to be constructed in Belarus, Russian state nuclear corporation and plant supplier Rosatom announced.



Hot testing takes place over a number of weeks and consists of tests performed on major systems to check their performance under normal operational conditions, without any nuclear fuel assemblies in the reactor.



According to Rosatom, hot testing at Belarusian-1 began on 11 December 2019 and involved 242 tests. Systems were tested at a pressure in the primary circuit of 160kg/square centimetre and at a temperature of more than 280C.

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