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.
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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.
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.
