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On 11 October, 2022 a meeting of the working group of the international project “Development of an Early Warning System on Nuclear Emergency of Lithuania“ took place at the State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI).

VATESI specialists presented to the participants from the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, the Fire Protection and Rescue Department and the Radiation Protection Center the role of VATESI in the management of emergency situations and discussed practical testing exercise of the software for more accurate predicting of accidents progression at nuclear power plants and characteristics of radionuclides released into environment, which VATESI plans to acquire with the project funds. Participants also visited the VATESI Emergency Operations Center.

The goal of this project is to create a unified early warning system on nuclear or radiological accident in the Republic of Lithuania and other countries, paying special attention to the measures dedicated to protect population against a possible nuclear accident at a nuclear power plant operating in the Republic of Belarus. VATESI activities in this project are intended to strengthen capabilities to perform the functions provided for in the National Plan for Protection of Population in Case of a Nuclear or Radiological Accident: to predict the progression of nuclear and radiological accidents and the radioactive release in environment in the nuclear installations.

Project “Development of an Early Warning System on Nuclear Emergency of Lithuania“ is funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014–2021 program “Environment, Energy, Climate Change“.


More information about the project.