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Leaked documents seen by Bloomberg suggest that there was an incident at Belarus’ Russian-built Ostrovets (aka Astravets in Lithuanian) nuclear power plant (NPP) in February 2022 The documents detail a safety incident at Ostrovets NPP, raising concerns about the plant’s operational integrity. The documents, sourced from Rosatom, the Russian nuclear giant, indicate a problem involving a leak of ion-exchange resin into the primary reactor circuit during a test run of the plant’s second 1,200-MW reactor. According to the report, on February 25, 2022, engineers discovered the resin, responsible fo…

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