Nuclear energy

Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety inspectors say that there is no information suggesting that a possible incident at the Astravyets nuclear plant, 50km from Lithuania's capital, could cause a risk of radiation exposure but Belarusian authorities deny the incident even took place.

Lithuania has summoned Belarus' ambassador and handed him a diplomatic note over a reported incident in the construction site of Astravyets nuclear power plant.

Energy expert Saulius Kutas believes that Lithuania doesn't pay enough attention to its energy security.

An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, in the northern part of what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic remains one of the biggest man-made disasters of all times, with long-lasting health consequences for people in the plant's vicinity and those sent to de...

Developers of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus say they will perform stress tests on the facility to make sure it is safe even in extreme circumstances.

EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete supports Lithuania's position that Belarus' nuclear power plant under construction in Astravyets, some 50km from Vilnius, must comply with all Espoo Convention and nuclear safety requirements, the Environment Ministry said on Friday.

Estonia's environment minister supports Lithuania's concerns about Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant that Belarus is building just 50km from Vilnius, according to Lithuanian Ambassador Neilas Tankevičius.

Lithuania can still stop the construction of Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus, says Russian engineer Andrei Ozharovsky who has been banned from entering Belarus due to his outspoken opposition to the project.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is planning to raise the issue of Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., this week.

A meeting in Geneva on Tuesday is to discuss progress that Belarus has made in reassuring Lithuania about a nuclear power plant that is being built near the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.

Lithuania’s major political parties will work out an agreement to present a unified front opposing the threat posed by the construction of a new Belarus nuclear plant and to send a clear message that electricity from the plant will face restrictions.

Latvia will back Lithuania in opposing the construction of a nuclear power plant some 50 kilometres from Vilnius in Belarus, Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis said on Thursday.

Lithuanian Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister of State Yosuke Takagi on using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

The European Union along with Lithuania has recently softened its tone towards Belarus - often called the "last dictatorship of Europe" – and that shift in strategy has real implications for Lithuania’s approach to the construction of the country’s new nuclear power plant.

Lithuania has been vocally protesting against Belarus' plans to build a new nuclear power plant in Astravyets, some 50km from Vilnius, with opposition parties recently publishing a strongly worded declaration urging the Lithuanian government to do everything to stop the project immediately.

Atomproject, a company of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, has issued tenders for surveying work at the site of a future Baltic nuclear power plant (NPP). Lithuanian experts say it may signal that Rosatom is resuming construction of the nuclear facility.

The Lithuanian government does not expect Belarus to take retaliatory measures against Lithuania over the country trying to block the construction of a new Belarusian nuclear power plant at Astravyets, said Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis.

Lithuania is demanding that the construction of a Russian-funded nuclear power plant in Astravyets, Belarus, will meet international standards. The plant is only 50km from Lithuania‘s capital Vilnius, meaning in the case of an accident, the city would be in plant’s evacuation zone.

Belarus has said the country's experts will respond to all questions that Lithuania has raised about safety issues of its planned Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in December.