“Many of the problems with the implementation of the INPP decommissioning project emerge due to the absence of an independent mediator who would have enough authority and would be able to propose solutions to problems. The disputes mostly arise between the customer and the contractor. And disputes are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems... Mistakes are made by both the customers and the contractors, and external supervisors could have noticed certain mistakes well before them turning into consequences and could have proposed possible solutions,” Darius Janulevičius said in an interview with the Verslo Žinios business daily.
He said that it might take several months to study all the projects being implemented by the INPP. However, information about the key problems should become clear within several weeks.
“Let’s take the interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility, the so-called B1 project. Funding for this project has been suspended and may be stopped altogether if we do not find ways to break the deadlock. I am not saying that it is possible to come up with the solutions within several weeks but it is possible to grasp the situation: to study the documents and contracts, to initiate the project examination if it has not yet been started,” Janulevičius said.
Ignalina NPP decommissioning work had to be of top quality, therefore all the parties had to be interested in its successful implementation, he said.
“I don’t think there would be any engineering company, including Nukem, which would wish to have its reputation tarnished by a record of unsuccessful projects. I think the contractors should do their best so as not to lose this contract,” Janulevičius told the daily.
