"In our referendum, a decision was made only on our own position. But this is not our project. This is a regional project and it would be fair to hold referenda in all three countries," the Ekonomika.lt online news site quoted Rimantas Vaitkus, CEO of Visagino Atominė Elektrinė (Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant, or VAE), as saying during an energy conference in Vilnius.
Later on Wednesday, VAE issued a press release saying that Vaitkus did not propose to hold referendums on the Visaginas nuclear facility in Latvia and Estonia.
Some 34.09 percent of people who cast ballots in the 14 October referendum in Lithuania said "yes" to building a new nuclear power plant while 62.68 percent voted "no".
The Lithuanian government plans to build a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, next to the closed Ignalina facility. The new plant could start operating in 2020. Under a draft concession agreement approved last May, Lithuania would hold 38 percent of shares in the project. Japan's Hitachi and Latvia would each take 20 percent stakes and 22 percent would go to Estonia.
