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In the letter of 25 May 2023 addressed to the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), which acts in Belarus as nuclear safety regulator, the Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) once again calls to suspend operation of Unit 1 and commissioning of Unit 2 of Belarusia...
Didelė pasaulio dalis pradėjo nusisukti nuo atominės energijos. Tam įtakos turi pasenusios atominės elektrinės, radioaktyvios atliekos ir neigiama patirtis su įvykusiomis jėgainių katastrofomis. Tačiau dalis didžiųjų kompanijų ir milijardierių (tokių kaip Billas Gatesas ar Warrenas Buffettas) yra įs...
Lithuania has called on Minsk not to launch the Astravyets nuclear power plants without the elimination of safety shortcomings.
The safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant should be a priority for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Lithuanian Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas said on Thursday after meeting with the IAEA's new director general Rafael Mariano Grossi on Vienna.
US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in Vilnius on Monday that Lithuania must talk to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Belarus about the safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant, adding that the US will stay out of talks on this issue.
In May of 2018, United States President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), colloquially known as the Iran nuclear deal. This deal was one of Barack Obama’s biggest achievements in international politics, with many experts and policy actors widely ...
On 7 February 2019, the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) in Geneva definitively concluded that during the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the vicinity of the Lithuanian border and Vil...
The European Commission is getting ready to start consultations with Russia over the switching of the Baltic states' power networks off the post-Soviet system and their synchronization with that of western Europe.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas in on Tuesday leaving for Japan to discuss renewable energy, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's decommissioning and the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Belarus with Japanese politicians and business people.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not plan to carry out a probe into an extremely high concentration of a radioactive isotope, at nearly 1,000 times normal levels, that was registered in Russia's Chelyabinsk region last September as it does not have the authority to do so, a spokesw...
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).
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko does not participate in Friday's Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels because of Moscow's decisions.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did not analyze the selection of the site for the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) close to the Lithuanian border in Belarus, which runs counter to information provided by Belarus, which said that IAEA had found the construction site suitable. Nevert...
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to respond to violations of the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus.
US Congressman John Shimkus of the Republican Party has made an address to US legislators, calling to pressure Belarus to give access to international observers to the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction merely 50 km from Lithuania's capital Vilnius.
Lithuania seeks that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should evaluate the safety of the site of the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus and its selection criteria.
The Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus, not far from the border with Lithuania, is a serious project that preliminary meets the International Atomic Energy Agency's safety standards, one of the agency's heads said in an interview with BNS.
Lithuania is worried by Belarus' rhetoric after experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said last week that the neighboring country had taken proper account of hazards to the Astravyets nuclear power plant construction site, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday.
Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week did not look into the issues that cause Lithuanian concerns over the Belarusian Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, the Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) said.
Belarus selectively applies nuclear safety standards in the construction of the Astravyets nuclear power plant, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday.
