Rimantas Vaitkus, former CEO of Lithuania's Visagino Atominė Elektrinė (Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant, or VAE), has been given a Japanese state award for fostering ties between Lithuania and Japan.
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Seimas Deputy Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas wants to include Poland in the planned construction of Visaginas nuclear power plant (NPP).
Lithuania is not considering building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas on its own, without Latvia and Estonia, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday.
Although the three Baltic countries continue official discussions about possibilities to build a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas together, the Lithuanian authorities have started to consider chances to develop the project with just one partner – the supplier of technology, Japan’s Hitachi.
The prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia, who are on a visit to Lithuania on Friday, have emphasised that their countries will participate in Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project if it generates a return on investment.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis expects that talks with Latvia and Estonia on the project for building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas will move ahead after Estonia forms a new government.
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis believes that Sweden's decision to phase out nuclear power would act as a stimulus for Lithuania's new nuclear power project, which has stalled with officials saying that they are consulting with Latvia and Estonia, the potential regional partners, and with Japan's Hit...
During his visit of Klaipėda Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal on Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told the media that discussions with Estonia over Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VAE) project have been renewed.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has admitted that talks with Latvia and Estonia on the multi-billion-euro project for building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas are proceeding too slowly and called for patience, saying that it will take more than a year until a final decision on the p...
The Baltic countries still have no final answer to the question of whether the multi-billion-euro project for building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, in eastern Lithuania, would be sufficiently competitive, Lithuanian Deputy Energy Minister Aleksandras Spruogis said on Friday, adding that t...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has met the Hitachi executive in Davos and says the Japanese energy company is still interested in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project in Lithuania and investments into Lithuania's other economic sectors.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told his Baltic counterparts in Tallinn on Friday that he would “step up” negotiations with the Japanese corporation Hitachi and partners in Latvia and Estonia on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Visaginas.
Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with the Japanese delegation visiting Lithuania on 1 December, the ministry said.
Baltic politicians to pick up discussions on nuclear power plant, Lithuanian parliament speaker says
A discussion between the three Baltic countries on going forward with a new nuclear power plant project in Visaginas, Lithuania, will soon move to a political level, Lithuania’s parliamentary speaker has said.
The Lithuania Tribune / DELFI.LT TV spoke to Andrius Kubilius, former Prime Minister and leader of the Seimas' Opposition about status of the Visaginas nuclear plant project.
Decisions on building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, eastern Lithuania, are likely to be made sometime around 2018, the chief executive officer of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) says.
Both sites chosen for the construction of a new Lithuanian nuclear power plant in Visaginas (VAE) are suitable, the Lithuanian State Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, or VATESI, has stated.
The hybrid war, tested in Ukraine, was a big surprise for some time even for defence experts. Now, it seems that this lesson has been learned – Lithuania is one of the first countries in NATO which started to form a rapid reaction force aimed at responding to the new military threats.
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has yet to give a concrete answer about whether Lithuania needs a new nuclear power plant (NPP) in Visaginas. According to him, Lithuania is finding its feet regarding energy security, thus there is no need to rush with the decision.
The newly appointed minister of energy Rokas Masiulis says he has no personal objections to developing nuclear energy.