The EC official plans to meet with Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas, officials of the State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI), and the representatives of INPP administration on Friday and Saturday, the news portal vz.lt reports on Wednesday.
On 15 July, INPP and Nukem shall submit to the Commission an agreement on further cooperation, in line with the commitments undertaken in spring when signing an interim deal on the construction of a solid nuclear waste processing and storage complex. Lithuania’s officials would not disclose whether any bigger advance had been made in those negotiations.
Unofficial sources told vz.lt that the parties had already agreed on almost all counts and that the biggest issue was the spent nuclear fuel containers manufactured by Germany’s GNS, in particular the non-compliance of their technical characteristics with the technical project terms.
Sources in the government claimed that “Lithuania would not make any concessions in talks on the containers”.
“We have told GNS explicitly – either they manufacture the equipment compliant with project specifications or provide technical justification that certain deviations from technical terms will not affect its safety,” an unnamed government official told the news portal.
2012-07-11 17:29
European Commission representative to review progress in talks with Ignalina decommissioning contractor
Peter Faross, director for nuclear energy at the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate General for Energy, will visit Vilnius this week and will, among other things, review the progress in talks between the Lithuanian authorities and the consortium of Nukem Technologies and GNS, which is implementing the project on the decommissioning of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP).
Ignalinos atominė elektrinė / Agnės Radzevičiūtės nuotr.
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