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Baltics reaffirm commitment to new nuclear plant
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 11 - 2009


The prime ministers of three Baltic states said
today they remained committed to the joint construction of a new
nuclear power station for the region in which Poland will also have a
share, according to dpa.
After talks in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, the three leaders -
Andrus Ansip of Estonia, Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia and Andrius
Kubilius of Lithuania - issued a joint statement saying an unnamed
"strategic investor" would be invited to join the four states in
construction of a new nuclear facility.
The plant would be located near the town of Visaginas, Lithuania,
where the existing Ignalina nuclear power plant operates, they said.
"The prime ministers took note of the development of the Visaginas
Nuclear Power Plant project and agreed to invite a strategic investor
to join the project. The prime ministers reconfirmed the status of
Estonia, Latvia and Poland as project partners," together with
Lithuania, the joint statement said.
Plans for the construction of a new reactor have made slow
progress over a number of years.
Closure of the Soviet-era Ignalina plant, which is the only
nuclear plant in the Baltic states and is of a similar design as the
infamous Chernobyl reactor, was one of the terms under which
Lithuania was allowed to join the European Union in 2004.
Lithuania subsequently lobbied for the plant to be granted an
extension of its life span but was rebuffed by the EU.
Ignalina is scheduled to be switched off at the end of this year,
raising fears of an energy shortage and reliance on Russian energy
supplies until a replacement is ready. That is unlikely to be earlier
than 2020, according to current estimates.
Russia has plans to build its own nuclear power plant in the
Kaliningrad enclave, located between Poland and Lithuania, to compete
with any new Lithuanian facility.


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