The power plant is currently under construction, which reportedly costs approximately $10bn, and is scheduled for completion in July 2020.

RIA Novosti cited AEM-Technologies director Evgeny Pakermanov as saying that: "As part of the contract, the company will make and supply the equipment to the Belarusian nuclear power plant for [its] two blocks."

AEM-Technologies is a unit of Atomenergomash, which is constructing the reactor and its internal devices.

A device for the allocation of the fuel containing material for the first block has already been delivered last year, and a similar one for the second block was done earlier in August.

In July 2012, Belarus awarded a contract to Russia’s nuclear power equipment and service export provider Atomstroy to build the country’s first atomic power plant in Ostrovets, near the Lithuanian border.

The plant will comprise two nuclear reactors.