Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant

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.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis had a publicly unannounced meeting with his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Vilnius on Thursday evening.

The prime ministers of Lithuania and Poland on Friday emphasized the importance of joint energy projects, first of all the synchronization of the electricity networks of the three Baltic countries and the gas interconnection. Both countries also signed a memorandum on enhanced energy cooperation.

Municipalities of the Vilnius city and the Švenčionys district intend to purchase civil protection instruments to ensure safety of the populations in case of a possible accident in the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, which is just across the state border in Belarus.

Local Poles and analysts expect a breakthrough in relations between Vilnius and Warsaw after Polish President Andrzej Duda's three-day visit to Lithuania last week.

The Latvian prime minister's visit in Belarus may consolidate Latvia's chances of getting the biggest share of Belarusian freight at the expense of the Lithuanian Klaipėda port, says Laurynas Jonavičius, lecturer at the Vilnius University's International Relations and Political Science Institute.

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...

Lithuania is trying to secure Ukraine's support for its efforts to block the construction of the unsafe Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, but it has received no concrete position from Kiev yet, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said.

Officials of Lithuanian institutions intend to hold discussions in early December on preparations for the threats of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus, as the factual status of the project shows that the power plant may be completed, Verslo Žinios daily said on W...

After an extremely high content of radioactive substances, which was nearly 1,000 times above the usual radioactive pollution level, was registered in the Russian Chelyabinsk region in September, Lithuania sent a note to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).