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As the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy reviewed the final plan of Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) decommissioning, it turned out that the closing costs will stand at EUR 2.6 billion at least, while the closing deadline has been extended for nine years.
The newly appointed minister of energy Rokas Masiulis says he has no personal objections to developing nuclear energy.
A new study on the strategic development of the Lithuanian energy sector does not bring clarity, at least for now, on whether or not the country needs a nuclear power plant.
Japan's Hitachi says the memorandum signed with Lithuania is a good first step towards building a nuclear power plant, but the project is a regional one, therefore it is of crucial that other partners join in as well.
Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVZS) has criticized the memorandum signed between the Ministry of Energy and the Japanese corporation Hitachi and is demanding to provide an alternative to the planned Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič on Thursday invited Latvia to participate in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project, saying that a planned interim project company could be more efficient if partners, Latvia and Estonia, took part in it.
Lithuania's Foreign Ministry refuses to confirm recent statements by Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei's that Lithuania allegedly accepts Minsk's propositions regarding Astravyets nuclear plant.
Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius refuses to disclose any details regarding the construction of Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), a project that has been in a limbo since a referendum in 2012, and invites to wait for the study by the Lithuanian Energy Institute.
The chief executive officer of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), which is carrying out multi-billion-litas closure projects, says that donors are satisfied with the current pace of work and progress achieved and that the decommissioning process is now under control, following several ...
