According to the daily, Nukem is talking to certain Lithuania’s construction companies but the talks are not successful since nobody wants to work at this site. If Vėtrūna exits the project, the Germans may have to import labor force from another country.
This is not the first time for the construction of a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel to be disrupted due to money issues.
A couple of years ago the workers of then subcontractor, Ranga IV, complained that they were not paid for their work and the building company, which is now in bankruptcy, claimed that it had not been paid by the Germans and is now trying to recover a debt of 19 million litas (EUR 5.5 m).
2012-06-06 07:49
Nukem looking for builders to replace Lithuania’s Vetruna at Ignalina decommissioning site
Russian-owned Nukem Technologies, Lithuania’s contractor in hundreds of millions of litas worth projects on the decommissioning of shut-down Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), is looking for other builders that could replace its subcontractor, Lithuania’s leading construction company Vėtrūna, which Nukem has run into debt to, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports.
Ignalina nuclear power plant / Irmanto Gelūno / BNS nuotr.
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