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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.

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.

The state could recover estimated 1.5 billion euros in alleged damage done by business groups' influence on political processes, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), says following the committee's investigation.

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age.

Russia's nuclear energy giant Rosatom, which is building the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, had plans to gain a foothold in Lithuania, according to declassified material provided by the State Security Department to the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence.

Russian-owned German company Nukem, former main contractor in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's multi-billion-litas closure projects, has dropped its 1.81-million-euro creditor‘s claim against Ranga IV as part of amicable deal with the Lithuanian building company in bankruptcy.