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Friday, 26.04.2024, 22:11
Lithuania concerned over Astravyets NPP plan B
Deividas Matulionis, international policy adviser
to Lithuania's prime minister, told the daily that the discussions should
involve officials of the ministries of Energy, Finance, Interior Affairs,
Foreign Affairs, National Defense and Environment in addition to
representatives of institutions in charge of radiation safety.
The interior minister's adviser Karolis Vaitkevicius noted that Lithuania should be ready for various scenarios,
regardless of assurances from Belarus about safety of the nuclear facility some
50 km from Lithuania's capital Vilnius.
"The most relevant issues include readiness to
apply protective actions envisaged by radiation safety and health care
specialists to protect the nation and minimize the possible effects of random
and determined events of ionizing radiation," Interior Minister Eimutis Misiunas said via his adviser.
The body of the second reactor of the Astravyets
facility was mounted on Dec. 2, according to a statement from the Belarusian
Energy Ministry.
Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, which is
constructing the first nuclear power plant in Belarus said in July that both
Astravyets reactors should be operational in the summer of 2020.
Lithuania has been accusing Minsk of unsafe
construction of the Astravyets power plant, which is in violation of
international commitments.