OREANDA-NEWS. November 03, 2011. On November 2 in Kaliningrad, the IV Regional Forum-Dialogue “Nuclear Facilities, Society, Safety – 2011” organized by the Public Council of ROSATOM finished its work.

The two-day forum-dialogue was attended by representatives of the European Union, Poland, Germany, Ukraine and Belarus, and international environmental organizations. Russia was represented by ROSATOM, Rosenergoatom Concern, scientific and environmental organizations of the country, and Kaliningrad government officials and general public, as well as mass media.

Opening the forum-dialogue, First Deputy Director General of ROSATOM Alexander Lokshin noted that the nuclear power development was impossible without support on the part of the broad general public. “ROSATOM always open for honest and concerned dialogue with all representatives of non-governmental and environmental organizations, local authorities and councils,” he emphasized.

Kaliningrad Region was not arbitrary selected as the site for the regional forum-dialogue because it is there where large-scale work is ongoing to prepare construction of Baltic NPP, which in future not only ensure energy security of the region but also allow it to become an electricity exporter to the European Union. It is assumed that 51% of investments will be provided by Rosenergoatom Concern and up to 49% will come from one or more private investors including international ones. In this connection Russia has invited Lithuania, Poland and other European countries to be co-investors in the NPP with a guaranteed proportional amount of electricity to be provided.

Joint implementation of the project on development of an international grid infrastructure will help to practical implementation of the Russia-EU energy strategic partnership, which includes development of technological and economic conditions for integration of energy markets, will facilitate enhancement of reliability of energy security systems of the Western Europe and the Baltics, interconnection of energy systems of the Baltics and Europe through the transit Kaliningrad energy system, as well as organization of joint trade products to sell surplus electricity (power)of the Kaliningrad Energy System with ENTSO-E through direct current DC-links.

In frames of the forum, Samuila Vilius, an official representative of the Lithuanian government and official from the Department for Energy Security of the Lithuanian MFA, visited the Baltic NPP site for the first time. “We have got much information about the project,” he emphasized.

Foreign participants of the forum-dialogue noted that it became a continuation of a series of meetings of Russian specialists and representatives of western public and state authorities targeted to explain on features and advantages of the Baltic NPP project, and participation of international investors in it. It spite of the fact that Russia has not yet ratified the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention), ROSATOM and Rosenergoatom Concern act proceeding from its provisions.