Seismologist Aronau: “All our land is covered with those breaks”
As Euroradio has found out, an explosion has been imitated near Astravets construction site to study how the break may react to it.
"This is wrong approach – you have a break and we don’t… Lithuanians have a break under their construction site but it does not reach the surface and does not generate magnitude 8 earthquakes and over – there is nothing like that. They can also build there but it is necessary to understand that their level of seismic danger is a bit higher”, - says Arkadz Aronau, the director of the Centre of Geophysical Monitoring.
Mr. Aronau is one of the authors whose research is being referred to by Lithuania when it claims that there are breaks near the Belarusian NPP construction site. However, the place chosen for the construction of the NPP is the safest.
Arkadz Aronau: "In general, all our land is covered with those breaks. You can find such breaks everywhere - here and near Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, and all over the western part of the Eastern European platform”.
Nevertheless, the scientist says that the break cannot be treated as a forbidding factor according to all the norms.
Aronau: "The presence of an active break reaching the surface right near the construction site would be a forbidding factor. But Ashmyany break poses no real threat. It is one of the safest pales in the world as regards seismic factors”.
Meanwhile, the geological study of Astravets construction site has not even been finished.
“Characteristics of certain units are being studied. That is why the necessary engineer research is being carried out. Elaboration of an architectural project will be the next stage. So, additional geological research is being conducted for the foundation pit right in the building site of the future NPP”, - says Anatol Bondar, the chief engineer of the administration of the NPP construction.
Euroradio has found out that an explosion has been imitated near Astravets building site to study how the break may react to it.
"There can be no catastrophic earthquakes in our seismic, tectonic and geodynamic conditions. For example, the Japanese earthquake was 32 million times stronger than the strongest earthquake that may occur here”, - says Aronau.
It is worth mentioning that the blast experiment in the construction site of the future NPP has given normal results.
