The Seventh Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) commenced at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna on Monday, 27 March 2017 and will take place until 7 April 2017. In this meeting, contracting parties will report on the implementation of their obligations under CNS and will prepare recommendations for the further strengthening of nuclear safety.
Lithuania will present National Report on 30 March. “This report reflects efforts and certain work of our facilities operators and Government authorities in ensuring safety of permanently shut down Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, designing, constructing and operating spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste management facilities, decontaminating and dismantling no more needed systems of Ignalina NPP” – says Michail Demčenko, Head of Lithuanian delegation and State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI).
Lithuanian delegation will also take part in discussions of other countries reports with major attention to Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, which is being constructed only in 40 km from Lithuania‘s capital Vilnius. The most important question concerns inappropriately selected site that was not evaluated according to the IAEA safety standards. Construction of nuclear power plant, without proper risk assessment, near the densely populated area and near the capital of the country is unacceptable for Lithuania. Other questions for Belarus will focus on the unfinished consultations with neighboring countries, incompliance of design with significant modern safety requirements, ensuring of the adequate safety culture level in all organizations that participate in implementation of the new nuclear power plant’s project.
Lithuanian report was prepared by representatives and Lithuanian delegation members from the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Lithuanian Geological Service, the Fire and Rescue Department, the Radiation Safety Center, UAB "VAE SPB", the State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and VATESI.
Seventh Lithuanian National Report
