This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Belarus.

“After completing the routine maintenance, provided for by the stage of pilot industrial operation, on March 8 at 2:14 am (the same as Moscow time), the first power unit of the BelNPP is connected to the grid.

The power level of the reactor plant is increasing, ”the ministry said in its Telegram message.

As previously reported in the Belarusian Ministry of Energy, the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant began loading simulators of fuel assemblies into the reactor vessel.