“The Assembly will assess the progress achieved and will take the decision taking into account the recommendations by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),” Ute Blohm-Hieber, the head of the Nuclear Energy, Transport, Decommissioning and Waste Management Unit of the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission, told the Verslo Žinios business daily.
Active talks between the INPP, Lithuania’s Energy Ministry, the European Commission, the EBRD, Nukem, GNS, as well as Russia’s Atomstroiexport, the owner of Germany’s Nukem, were held in Vilnius, Brussels, and London this week.
Having obtained all required documents from Germany’s GNS, the manufacturer of spent nuclear fuel containers Constor RBMK-1500, the INPP plans to ask the State Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) late in summer or early in fall to certify whether the casks are safe to use.
