Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

Lithuania's Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas will pay a visit to Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant on Fruday and will discuss its decommissioning with its new CEO Audrius Kamienas.

The European Commission wants Lithuania to increase its share of co-financing for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) decommissioning.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the European Commission's proposal to provide 552 million euros for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) decommissioning in 2021-2027 is insufficient and Lithuania will continue to negotiate for more funding.

Audrius Kamienas who is currently acting managing director of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant but has just won the competition for the top job at the facility, carrying out decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros, says transparency will be his main priority.

Audrius Kamienas, currently acting managing director of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), has won the competition for the top job at the facility, which is carrying out decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros.

Lithuania must make principled decisions and "clean" the county of companies incompatible with national security interests, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense [NSGK] says.

Russian nuclear energy construction giant Rosatom and Lithuania's MG Baltic business group, owned by Darius Mockus, have joint interests in the upcoming multimillion project on the construction of Ignalina nuclear plant's disposal facility, the Lithuanian Seimas' Committee on National Security and D...

The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) completed on Wednesday its investigation into business and interest groups' influence on political processes and decision-makers.

Under the European Commission's proposal, direct payments to Lithuanian farmers would reach only 80 percent of the EU's average level within the next decade, Lithuanian diplomats say.

A court in Lithuania's northern city of Panevėžys starts hearing a criminal case on Monday, 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.

Eleven people have applied for the job of chief executive officer at Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), which is carrying out decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros.

As Lithuania prepares for new negotiations on the funding of the Ignalina nuclear power plant's decommissioning, the country's former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he faced a serious risk of losing funding for the project before assuming his position, the delfi.lt news website reports.

Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas sees the European Commission's proposal to provide EUR 552 million euros for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) decommissioning in 2021-2027 as a basis for talks and expects that the country will negotiate more funding for the shutdown facility.

The European Commission proposes to allocate 552 million euros at current prices in the EU's 2021-2027 budget for the decommissioning of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP).

Lithuania Energy Ministry on Wednesday started looking for a new CEO for state-run company Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, after Darius Janulevičius stepped down from the position in early February.

Lithuanian experts have informed Belarus that the latest event at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is being decommissioned, was not a nuclear incident and posed no health or environmental risks, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said.

A "big fight" will take place in European institutions for the sum to be provided to the decommissioning of Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) in the European Union's (EU) future financial perspective of 2021-2027, says Lithuania's former finance minister, MEP Zigmantas Balčytis.

Ingeborga Grassle, the leader of the European Parliament's (EP) delegation that is wrapping up its visit in Lithuania, says she lacks validation of the money Lithuania has requested for the decommissioning of its Ignalina nuclear power plant in the new financial perspective.