Lithuania could consider building small-scale nuclear power plants in the future to speed up the restructuring of its energy sector, the President Gitanas Nauseda has said.
“We can discuss, for example, small-scale nuclear power plants. For the time being, we have to focus on the need to produce green energy and diversify our energy sources, which we have already done to a certain extent,” Nauseda said.
According to him, Lithuania needs to accelerate the restructuring of its energy sector to make it more resilient to future price increases.
“I’m talking first and foremost about renewable energy,” the president said.
“But I can see from other countries’ position, which we have discussed in the EU format, that nuclear energy ideas are experiencing a certain renaissance and a significant number of EU countries are talking about the construction of nuclear reactors,” he added. (LRT/Business World Magazine)
