The Baltic States will buy only safely generated nuclear energy from third countries, Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said referring to the two planned nuclear plants Belarus and Kaliningrad.
"It will be possible to apply such restrictions linking them with electricity that is generated in the third countries in an unsafe manner. In our opinion, the nuclear power plant projects being newly developed both in Kaliningrad and in Belarus are not being developed in line with the international nuclear safety conventions," Kubilius said.
"Such restrictions could also be applied if a third country fails to comply with the international climate change conventions, or when we have to protect the energy generation capacities being built on our market against unfair competition, when we have to safeguard our energy independence," the prime minister told Lietuvos radijas on April 26.
Both Russia and Belarus have plans to build nuclear plants close to the Lithuanian border, but safety concerns have arisen over both sites because no international agencies have been given the full safety and environmental reports.
Lithuania shut down its own nuclear plant at the start of 2010 and has since used gas to fuel all of its energy needs. It has plans to build a nuclear plant by 2020, though the target is becoming less realistic every year as plans stall to find investors and get approvals from governing bodies.
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