OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN FOR LITHUANIA’S NUCLEAR FUTURE
February 3rd, 2013
LITHUANIA’S plans to build the Visaginas nuclear power plant, hailed the first modern nuclear alternative to Russian energy in the Baltic States, have been stalled since Lithuanian voters opposed the idea in an October 2012 referendum.However, a general election held the same day as the referendum and the resulting newly elected Social Democrat-led government has formed a commission within the energy ministry to recalculate the project’s cost estimates, reporting in March. These will be given to a new government task force to formulate a new strategy, ...
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