Negotiating Money in the Nuclear Project
After the regional partners entered into the negotiations between the Lithuanian Government and a joint Japanese and American company Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy regarding the construction of the...
View ArticleA. Anušauskas. The nuclear performance of the political theatre
When talking about the agreement with the strategic investor in the new NPP – the Japanese company Hitachi – a question is being raised: how much will electricity cost after the completion of this...
View ArticleGrybauskaite: it was impossible to save Snoras
At December 1 meeting in Estonia, all three Baltic presidents (Dalia Grybauskaite, Andris Berzins and Toomas Hendrik Ilves) talked over issues that are especially crucial now when the European and...
View ArticleThe “Z” files: how to fight for energy independence from Lithuania? By...
From the times when the energy suppliers ruled the state rather than vice versa, congenital clubs of experts do not spare energy and imagination to reinvent the evidence why there is no need to...
View ArticlePoland freezes its participation in the Visaginas’ N-Plant project
Poland has decided to freeze its participation in the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VAE) project in Lithuania, state energy group PGE announced on 9 December. The Visaginas Plant COE is surprised,...
View ArticleAgreements concerning NP will be provided for Seimas in the spring, says A....
The Minister of Energy Mr. Arvydas Seikmokas said that the contract with the Japanese American corporation Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy to build the new nuclear power generating station (NPGS) will be...
View ArticleGrybauskaite: Lithuanian people were deceived during N-plant referendum
The people of Lithuania were misled during the October referendum on the new nuclear power plant, they were not provided with thorough information and were showered with lobbyist propaganda, President...
View ArticleEx-PM says successor should look for N-plant documents online
Lithuania’s former prime minister Andrius Kubilius says that his successor Algirdas Butkevicius, who has recently hinted about missing documents in connection to the new nuclear power plant, should...
View ArticlePM expects to inform Latvia about govt’s position on N-plant in mid-March
Speaking ahead of next week’s visit to Latvia, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said on Friday that Lithuania’s new government would make its position on a nuclear power plant known to regional...
View ArticleWeek 5 in review
A weekly look at some of the stories and views that were in the headlines last week: On Sunday,27 January, President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the newly elected President of the Czech Republic,...
View ArticleWeek 8 in review
A weekly look at some of the stories and views that were in the headlines last week: Some of the letters of congratulation on Lithuania’s Independence Day sent by foreign officials were publishedon...
View ArticleVisaginas nuclear plant may not be part of Lithuania’s energy strategy
BNS A working group that is mapping out Lithuania’s National Energy Strategy is not predicting a bright future for the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project, the business daily ‘Verslo Žinios’ reported...
View ArticleLithuania tries to attarct Japanese investors
While the Visaginas new nuclear plant construction project – and Japanese Hitachi’s participation in it – is hanging in limbo, the interest of Japanese investors in Lithuania is being cultivated by...
View ArticleLinkevičius: Hitachi’s approach towards Visaginas Nuclear plant remains ‘very...
BNS The approach of Japan’s Hitachi towards a project of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania remains ‘very serious’, Foreign Minister has said. “Of course, the issue of the nuclear power plant...
View ArticleOpposition leader: deal reached on Lithuanian nuclear plant project
BNS “We reached substantial and even historic agreement and commitment to implement the Visaginas nuclear power plant project (…) that brings clear political reasoning back to the project,” Kubilius,...
View ArticleVisaginas nuclear plant: Vilnius waiting for Hitachi to answer 80 questions
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius told National Radio yesterday that a final decision on the fate of the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project will be made after the government has...
View ArticleVisaginas nuclear plant economically unviable now – Lithuanian Energy CEO
BNS Lithuania’s project for building a new nuclear power plant is not economically viable at the moment, the chief executive officer of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian...
View ArticlePM: Lithuania continues talks with Latvia, Estonia on Visaginas project
BNS Prime Minister denies that Lithuania is not in talks with Estonia and Latvia on a new nuclear power plant of Visaginas. According to Algirdas Butkevičus, the negotiations are now held at a lower...
View ArticleCollaboration between Hitachi and Kaunas University of Technology flourishes...
On Thursday, 15 May the second part of an intensive Nuclear Engineering Course was underway at KTU. The two-day course aims to help develop the qualified nuclear engineers that will be high demand in...
View ArticleVisaginas nuclear plant project needs economic viability calculations –...
BNS Estonia’s new prime minister says that economic viability calculations must be done before making final decisions on the project for building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, in eastern...
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