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* 2005-03-23: Lithuania found place for underground repository for spent nuclear fuel May 19, 2003 Ignalina-1 may slip 2005 shutdown commitment Lithuania promised EU that the Ignalina plants would be shut down, U-1 in 2005, U-2 in 2009. But Lithuanian regulator reports today that he plant is already a year late in submitting decommissioning master plan, and the contract to build a new boiler to replace the process heat from U-1 is also about a year behind. The heat from U-1 is used by public and needed for safety by U-2. [Source: Reuters, Lithuania n-plant closure efforts late - regulator, May 20, 2003] * 2000 - In preparing the UNSCEAR 2000 report on "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation", the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation sent every member nation a Survey of Exposures, asking expert quantification of the radiation exposures to populations in that nation from natural radiation sources. The respondents for Lithuania were A. Mastauskas and G. Morkunas (Radiation Protection Centre, Ministry of Health, Vilnius). |