Waste Management

Lithuania Completes Decommissioning Of Soviet-Era Radwaste Storage Facility

By David Dalton
18 May 2026

After 10-year project site near Vilnius no longer classified as ‘nuclear’

Lithuania Completes Decommissioning Of Soviet-Era Radwaste Storage Facility
Lithuania’s energy minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas welcomed completion oof the ‘complex’ radwaste project. Courtesy Altra
Lithuania’s nuclear decommissioning company Altra has completed the decommissioning of the Soviet-era Maisiagala Radioactive Waste Storage Facility with all radioactive waste, radionuclide-contaminated structures and contaminated soil have been removed and the site cleaned up and restored.

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