2011-05-16 Permission to Construct Nuclear Facility is Received
On 9 May a permission has been issued by State Territorial Planning and Construction Inspectorate under the Ministry of Environment to State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) whereby Ignalina NPP is permitted to construct INPP Solid Waste Management and Storage Facilities (SWMSF).
The INPP management applied to State Territorial Planning and Construction Inspectorate for permission to construct a nuclear facility (according to the project B2/3/4) on 28 April 2010.
The objective of B2/3/4 project is to build a new INPP Solid Waste Management and Storage Facilities (SWMSF). The facilities will process the solid radioactive waste generated prior to Unit 2 final shutdown (turn of 2009) as well as the waste formed due to INPP decommissioning. The project includes two independent components to be impleented simultaneously: B2 (New Solid Waste Retrieval Facilities Design and Construction) and B3/4 (New Solid Waste Management and Storage Facilities Design and Construction).
Solid radioactive waste generated as a result of INPP operation at present is being stored in the interim concrete storage facilities on the teritory of the power plant. This waste is not processed (stowed).
Daiva Rimašauskaitė,
Head of Communication- Spokesperson
El. p. daiva.rimasauskaite@iae.lt
Tel. (8-386) 24442
Ignalina NPP decommissioning activities are co-financed by European Union