Visaginas NPP
The city Visaginas is situated in the northeast of Lithuania. It had been founded in 1975 as Sniečkus for the workers of the Ignalina NPP on the shores of the lake Visaginas. Four villages had been demolished for that workers' town, with the biggest one of them known as Visaginas.[1]
Proposals to construct a new NPP at the old Ignalina NPP site, that had been closed in accordance with Lithuania's accession agreement to the EU[2] at the end of 2009, have been made since 2007[3]. In October 2011, the Lithuanian government informed the European Union about their construction plans[4].
The Visaginas Nuclear Plant Company has been set up by electricity companies of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland on July 30, 2008 to be responsible for the construction of the new NPP. It is supposed to be a 1,300 MW boiling water reactor[4] while a maximum capacity of up to 3,400 MW had been announced[2]. On July 14, 2011[4] the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has been selected as a strategic investor of the project.[3]
- an international anti-nuclear conference focusing on the new NPP construction plans of Lithuania, Belarus and Kaliningrad (Russia) will take place in Vilnius (LT) on December 6-8, 2011
Media coverage
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visaginas&oldid=445363068 as at October 15, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visaginas_Nuclear_Power_Plant&oldid=447180300 as at October 15, 2011
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ignalina_Nuclear_Power_Plant&oldid=451980296 as at October 15, 2011
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 http://www.nuklearforum.ch/ebarticle.php?art_id=de-131842098266&id=de-116487550462--p-1 as at October 15, 2011
