Lukashenka comments on nuclear reactor casing incident at construction site
Belarus will refuse from the reactor case if there is the slightest scratch on it, Alyaksandr Lukashenka told journalists during his visit to Braslau District on August 4.
He was indignant at the way some mass media (especially the Russian ones) described the incident at the Belarusian NPP and wrote that the reactor had collapsed there. “There is no reactor; there is only a metal case that is 20 cm thick. The reactor is supposed to be put inside the case,” Lukashenka explained.
Builders were practicing to lift the case, he said. “It was lifted to my height or a bit more. The top cords got torn and one side of the case fell on the ground,” the Belarusian President said.
He has been shown the moment of the incident and ordered to deal with it, Lukashenka said. “We will refuse from the case even if there is the slightest scratch. If we do refuse from it, a new rector will be delivered, Russians say. This is it.”
He is controlling the construction of the NPP personally, the state leader claimed.
