Overview
- President Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus will add a third power unit at the Ostrovets nuclear site and keep discussions going on a separate plant in the country’s east.
- Belarusian specialists could handle 85–90% of the third unit’s construction, with Russia providing the reactor and engineering support, according to Lukashenko.
- Lukashenko said President Vladimir Putin backs the third-unit plan and that Rosatom’s leadership is supportive.
- The government will pursue the third Ostrovets unit while researching a site in Mogilev region for a potential second nuclear plant, with both tracks proceeding in parallel.
- In meetings in Minsk with Rosatom and Rostov governor Yuri Slyusar, Lukashenko raised that a future eastern plant might supply power to southwest Russia, while noting Russia has sufficient electricity today.