Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

Top executives of Lithuania's decommissioned Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) expect to persuade members of the European Parliament (EP) on substantial progress made in the utility's shutdown projects to ensure further funding from the European Union (EU).

A group of members of the European Parliament is coming to Lithuania this week to inquire about decommissioning projects of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis promised on Friday to ensure that people in the mostly Russian-speaking town of Visaginas continue to have access to free Lithuanian language courses.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has sacked his adviser for energy and environmental matters, Tomas Garasimavičius, who had lost his political confidence.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry has stated that no incidents that would be dangerous to the public had occurred at the shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

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.

A spokeswoman for the Lithuanian energy minister has denied a report that an incident occurred in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in late 2017, saying that it was a test that showed the need for improving equipment and that radiation level remained unchanged during the test.

An incident occurred in Lithuania's shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in late 2017, but the public was not informed about it, the 15min.lt news website reported on Monday.

A delegation of members of the European Parliament will come to Lithuania next month to see how projects for decommissioning the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) are being implemented.

Rosatom-controlled Nukem, the contractor for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's almost-complete decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros, should no longer be in charge of these projects, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence, said.

Lithuania seeks that direct payments to its farmers are as close as possible to those received by their counterparts in the EU's "old" member states, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at a informal meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Friday.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Brussels on Thursday for informal talks among the leaders of the European Union's (EU) member-states about the community's 2021-2027 budget.

Lina Sabaitienė, a former deputy economy minister, will on Feb. 6 take over as deputy energy minister from Simonas Šatūnas, who is returning to the diplomatic service.

A criminal case in which former top executives of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) are suspected of abuse of office in organizing an auction of the plant's assets worth 1.5 million euros is going to court.

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.

The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a plan for reorganizing companies that hold the status of state enterprises.