Lukashenko Again Talks About The Second NPP In Belarus
- 25.09.2025, 18:01
The dictator will raise the issue in his meeting with Putin.
Alexander Lukashenko has announced plans to agree with Russia's dictator Vladimir Putin on the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Belarus. He said this in his speech in Moscow at the Global Atomic Forum on September 25.
- Vladimir Vladimirovich and I will consult tomorrow, talk and decide on the construction of a second nuclear power plant in the Republic of Belarus, - said Lukashenko.
According to him, Minsk "has no questions who will build this plant":
- We will build it together with the Russians. Because they taught us how to do it. And we are already participating in the construction of such stations in some countries at the request of Rosatom," added the usurper.
He also asked the Russian state corporation Rosatom not to leave Belarus and suggested to "resume the movement" on the nuclear center in the country.
- I have kept it (the nuclear center. - Editor's note) as it was inherited from the Soviet times. There are a lot of good materials there under the control of Grossi (head of the IAEA. - Editor's note)," said Lukashenko.
Late in March, the Ministry of Energy of our country said that they were preparing for technical negotiations with Russia on the construction of the second nuclear power plant in Belarus.
Alexander Lukashenko at the talks with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on March 13 this year asked Rosatom to build another nuclear power plant in Belarus.
Lukashenko has voiced this idea before. Recently, he talked about it during a visit to Minsk Technopark. Back in August 2023, he noted that the plant could be built in the east of the country. Russia's Deputy Ministry of Energy Pavel Snikkars responded to this by saying that Russia was treating the initiative "with restraint and caution." In October of the same year, Lukashenko repeated his proposal, adding that a second nuclear power plant would be "very, very profitable" for the country. At the same time, experts question the expediency of the second NPP in Belarus.
For the construction of BelNPP, Minsk received a $10 billion loan from Russia (which has not yet been spent in full), plus about 10% of the project cost was planned to be spent from the budget of Belarus. In 2019, Alexander Lukashenko estimated the cost of the project at $7 billion.
In April this year, it became known that two locations for the construction of the second nuclear power plant in Belarus were under consideration - the additional unit of BelNPP in Astravets and a new nuclear power plant in Mahiliou voblast.