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In the letter of 25 May 2023 addressed to the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), which acts in Belarus as nuclear safety regulator, the Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) once again calls to suspend operation of Unit 1 and commissioning of Unit 2 of Belarusia...
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says his predecessors were negligent in not talking to Belarus about the Astravyets nuclear power plant when the project was still in its early stages.
As Lithuanian and Belarusian nuclear safety bodies are holding talks on cooperation and exchange of information on nuclear accidents, Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas says Vilnius' position regarding the safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant remains unchanged, but it is necessary to prepa...
Reactors at Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) should not come online until all recommendations by the European Commission's experts have been fulfilled and other safety questions raised by Lithuania have been answered, the Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) said ...
The European Union is set to publish its stress test assessment for Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus near the Lithuanian border.
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that he was not surprised at Belarus handing a diplomatic note to Lithuania following media reports about an alleged incident while handling radioactive waste at the shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
Minsk handed on Wednesday a diplomatic note to Lithuania following media reports about an incident while handling radioactive waste at the shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
Lithuania's decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has confirmed a slightly higher level of radioactivity of a small share of waste established during the hot tests of the new solid radioactive waste storage complex (project B2/ 3/4), noting that this would not have an effect upon the pri...
The testing of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's new solid radioactive waste storage complex has revealed that a part of waste is more radioactive than thought, but this will not have any major impact on the decommissioning process, a former CEO said on Tuesday.
An event that occurred while handling radioactive waste in Lithuania's shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in late 2017 was not a nuclear incident, the country's nuclear safety regulator said.
Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) fails to meet modern safety standards, Lithuanian experts say after reviewing the neighbouring country's stress tests report on the facility under construction some 50 kilometres from Vilnius.
Lithuania's State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) expects to submit its comments and questions regarding Belarus' stress tests report on the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to an international group of experts by mid-January.
Belarus' stress tests report on the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) under construction some 50 kilometres from Vilnius fails to provide answers to Lithuania's key questions regarding site selection, environmental impact assessment and construction safety or quality, the Lithuanian State Nuclear...
