“Vėtrūna has notified Nukem Technologies officially that it will terminate the contract on 29 June unless the arrears for the works carried out are covered,” Vėtrūna CEO, Rolandas Baškys, told BNS.
Vėtrūna had suspended all project works at the site on 31 May, he added.
Meanwhile, Nukem Technologies CEO, Ulf Kutscher, claims that the talks with Vėtrūna continue.
“This is a long-term relationship. If you find issues you are unhappy with, then you start to talk. This is what we do and talks lead to negotiations and we are negotiating with Vėtrūna currently. We are still at negotiating table. We aim to have a result by no later than the end of next week. We are negotiating in order to speed up the work and also to improve the quality,” Kutscher told Lithuanian reporters at Nukem’s headquarters in Alcenau, Germany, on Thursday.
“We are talking about a very small amount of money” that was overdue in making payments to Vėtrūna, he said adding that “work has not been stopped, the work has only been slowed down. We still have Vėtrūna on the site”.
Nukem is carrying out two major decommissioning projects at Ignalina plant: a 123- million-euro solid radioactive waste storage facility complex and a spent fuel storage facility, initially estimated to cost 193 million euros. The projects are running some three to four years behind schedule.
2012-06-22 17:52
Lithuania’s Vėtrūna threatens terminating contract with Nukem if not paid within week
Lithuania’s leading construction company Vėtrūna, a subcontractor for the building part of decommissioning projects at the shut-down Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), warns that it will terminate the contract with the projects’ contractor, Russian-owned Nukem, unless it is paid for the work done at the project site within a week.
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant / Gedimino Savickio/BFL nuotr.
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