Panevezio statybos trestas AB has signed the 156 million. Eur (VAT inclusive) contract with the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) for construction of the repository for low and intermediate-level short-lived radioactive waste and performance of relevant works. The works are scheduled for the period of 4.5 years.

The repository will be built at the Stabatiskes site in the Visaginas Municipality near other radioactive waste management facilities of the INPP. It will consist of three reinforced concrete modules which can accommodate up to 100,000 cubic meters of final packaging of radioactive waste. The repository complex will also include the office building, process building (where containers will be received, characterised, filled with concrete (if required), other process operations will be performed), auxiliary building, surface water collection basins and water treatment facilities, physical security perimeter with checkpoints, weather station, storage for inert materials, transformer station and other auxiliary facilities.

It is planned to fill the repository with waste by 2038, and after decommissioning the repository will be supervised for at least 300 years.