Belarusian nuclear
power plant

Lithuania sees progress in negotiations with Belarus on the Belarusian nuclear power plant project, BelTA learned from Vitalius Auglis, Director of the Pollution Prevention Department of the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment, after the second round of Belarusian-Lithuanian consultations about the Belarusian nuclear power plant in Minsk on 14 September.

A Site and External Events Design (SEED) mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to arrive in December 2016 to evaluate the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Energy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk after the second round of Belarusian-Lithuanian consultations about the Belarusian nuclear power plant on 14 September.

Belarus prepares and distributes information on the progress in the BelNPP construction project on a regular basis, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Energy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk after the second round of Belarusian-Lithuanian consultations on the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) on 14 September.

Belarus is building the nuclear power plant to make electricity rates affordable for households, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has said as he met with students of the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University on 30 April, BelTA has learnt.

NUCLEAR ENERGY AND INDUSTRY PRESS-CENTRE Most of the participants of the referendum, that took place 14 October in Lithuania, voted against the building of the Visaginas nuclear power station. Roland Paksas, the leader of the party “Order and Justice”: “People are wise and understand that we must do the thing, from what their children future and their state future depends on.