“We need to make sure that people very close to the EU build nuclear power plants, that this is done according to the strictest security rules,” the commissioner told Vilnius journalists after meeting with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
“So we want to be able to have an internationally-monitored stress – test of that nuclear power plant in Belarus,” he added.
Stress tests check a power plant’s resistance under the worst possible operating conditions.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that Lithuania should think of helping his country run the nuclear power plant, which Vilnius has vehemently criticized as unsafe.
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