Proceedings towards a declaration that will provide the legal framework for a nuclear power programme in Estonia are likely to begin in the country’s parliament, or Riigikogu, this week, a source within the Estonian government said on 29 April.

The Estonian state news agency ERR reported on 18 April that a debate on developing nuclear energy in Estonia had started that day and that the parliament hoped to vote on the issue by mid-June.

Reelika Runnel, the head of the Radiation and Nuclear Energy Unit at the Estonian Ministry of Climate, was quoted in the EER article as saying that the Estonian “state needs to be able to provide at least 1,200 MW of managed generation capacity that is climate-friendly at the same time. The construction of a nuclear power plant would certainly be one way of achieving these objectives.”