Our activities are uniquely long term. Even after a few decades when the nuclear power plant has been fully dismantled, the work will not be over, which is why our operational vision extends as far as the year 2100.
We must ensure the storage of long-lived radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for up to 10,000 years. For this purpose, by 2070 we will construct a special engineered structure – a deep geological repository – several hundred metres underground, and we will be responsible for its operation.
On the so-called green meadow that will remain after the power plant dismantling project, a new stage will begin. Perhaps we will have already started a new nuclear energy cycle, and a next-generation nuclear power plant will rise there. In any case, Lithuania will remain a nuclear energy country as long as we continue to manage the legacy of nuclear activity and until all long-lived radioactive waste becomes harmless to the environment – which will require not hundreds, but thousands of years.