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Cold tests are run without using radioactive waste. They will show how the facility functions and meets the project requirements. Afterwards tests with radioactive waste will commence. The tests are projected to be completed by November 2018. The director general said the cost of the B2/3/4 facilities stands at approximately EUR 200 million.

Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has emphasised that the work on the complex is proceeding as scheduled.

"We expect to maintain the pace to the very deadline in 2018. It is a complicated energy project and we have once again proved that Lithuania can manage complicated projects," Masiulis told journalists in the town of Visaginas.

The Solid Radioactive Waste Management and Storage Facilities consist of two independent parts that are being implemented at the same time: B2 – where solid radioactive waste is removed from transport containers and B3/4 – where waste is managed and stored for 50 years.